Thought I would be hard pressed to find a MPDG more MPDG than Natalie Portman in Garden State, alas, here we are. Honestly still a pretty fun flick, Cillian Murphy and Lucy Liu are hot enough to keep you engaged. Ultimately though, the characters stay shallow enough that it’s no wonder this got beat out in the cultural zeitgeist by High Fidelity and Be Kind Rewind in the category of men who run stores for increasingly obsolete forms of media. Unfortunately this is what made me understand the infatuation w Cillian Murphy, I’m just a girl 😪
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We Live in Time 2024
I wanted to like it so bad… idk I may just have to accept that I’m not a melodrama girl. I wasn’t naive. I knew it was going to be a straight romantic drama, and that usually isn’t my thing. Even with that dose of skepticism I unfortunately had a laundry list of issues with it that extend beyond ‘it just wasn’t for me.’
-Flo and Andrew had great chemistry but not enough happy times to balance out the very…
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Elemental 2023
The thing is, no one is going to do 4 elements as an allegory for ethnicity/culture/race as well as ATLA and even that has its plot holes and pit falls. I think it would have been really cute and endearing as a short, but the more time I had to sit in the universe the more time I spent frustrated by how little of it made sense.
I tried to let it go and just enjoy the ride, but I…
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The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
Just on a pretty surface level first viewing I was blown away by how rich the content of this film was. The writing was absolutely gorgeous—so succinct, yet I never felt like the subtext was too far out of reach. The trajectory of new pastoral media has been fascinating. Against a few years of cottagecore trends and the romanticization of rural living, it was especially interesting to see the film devolve from its exposition—depicting the potentially endearing quirks of an isolated small town—to something so contemplative and melancholy. Not that I would expect differently from Farrell and Gleeson.
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