this is absolutely incredible. hooked me from the start and didn’t let go for a moment until the credits rolled (after the credits rolled, honestly - this was a couple minutes of sitting there in awe afterwards type of movie).
it’s a fascinating premise and the script is just about perfect, particularly with respect to the way it handles the science fiction and time travel of it all. never gets so hand-wavy about how things work as to leave the…
loooooooved this. short odds coming in that i would’ve loved a movie directed by Clea DuVall and starring Kristen Stewart, i know, but i was in the mood to be moved and it really just got to me emotionally. pretty funny too, there were a couple of jokes that got a genuine laugh out of me.
i understand that, as a Christmas rom-com, it was never not going to end up with everyone loved up and accepting and happy, but…
beautiful, painful, hilarious (Suicide Cop is probably the hardest I've ever laughed at a movie) and just so powerful. it's an authentic representation of the experience of being trans in a way that I don't think I've ever seen put to film before. honestly i just have to thank Vera Drew and everyone involved for making this movie. happiness, sadness, confusion, beauty, hope, all of it, it really means so much to me to see it all represented like this.…
underpinned by that grating ‘enlightened’ faux-centrist insistence that actually, everyone with political ideas is a crazy extremist and also a loser for caring about anything, but like many people who push that line, unable to prevent the mask from slipping and revealing who it is that they really view as worthy of respect (usually, and here, Nazis!). Writer Nick Pinkerton was in attendance at the screening i was at and made a couple of comments to the effect of ‘i…
