Watching movies is like gambling to me. I keep hitting that slot machine because I know that there are movies out there that are going to change my life. Movies that make me feel things I was never able to to feel quite as clearly. Movies that show me a whole other way of looking at movies. Any dreary day can become a pivotal one with the right movie.
Sometimes I look at the list of movies I've watched in…
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I'm so confused. How did Roman Polanski, of all people, direct this feminist masterpiece? It is stunning 😶
I'm going to pretend instead this is all Ira Levin's doing. Levin is a horror author from the '60s who wrote Rosemary's Baby, Stepford Wives and Sliver, and thus helped invent the feminist horror story.
To me, this feels like a woman's horror story through and through. I just saw a Reddit thread from a guy saying "I don't get this movie…
Okay, so I saw the bi leather movie Please, Baby, Please last week, and I was blown away by all the cool movie design choices and how they reflected on masculinity. When I showed it to Simon, he said "Yea the bi color is great, but this is just Queer West Side Story, Jules". Then we went to the youtubes to find some WSS clips and school me on my complete lack of intertextuality. Which is about to be fixed.…
Watched at Cinema Culinair, where they serve you the food in the movie at the same time that the people on screen are eating it. The movie was a bit light, but that just meant that I had more room to pay attention to my seven kinds of vegan street food. Sweet!
Man, imagine seeing The Menu like that!
Good first episode. Very gentle cinematography and pacing. I love how much space and slowness this show incorporates. It's cool, because the main character has a quiet waiting as her therapy style, and this quiet waiting just spreads out into the show.
Toni Colette does another Hereditary face transition as she goes from incredulous horny excitement to pure guilt in a matter of seconds. These shots are becoming her trademark, they should call it the "Colette". Her husband is quite…
