Favorite films

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Jan 2024

  At times I feel crushed under the weight of all my unlived lives, my unchosen paths, my unmade choices. They visit me in dreams. Sometimes I wake in tears, not wholly remembering, but feeling one of my threads were cut by morning.
  I do what I can to tie them off - follow their lead in my mind, concluding they'd have lead me to unhappiness, or ended back in the same version of me that lives now.
  Then I see a movie called Past Lives, the threads are frayed, and I sit disheveled with loose threads in hand and tears streaming down my face.

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  The Wonder 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 10 Aug 2023

  Love requires some action, some intervention, at some point. Not just standing by.

  This movie deeply impacted me on first viewing, and only moreso on further viewings.
  Love cannot survive under rigid control, even wearing the face of religious devotion. Love cannot survive under terminal generational trauma. Love rescues, especially the most vulnerable. To watch your child slowly die in the name of your values is to forsake love entirely.

  I have been the child, I have been her rescuer. I will aid and abet anyone who seeks to burn down the house that haunts them in favor of a future they can survive.

Recent reviews

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  Dallas Buyers Club 2013

  Watched 20 Mar 2025

  It hurts me to say, but Jared Leto is my favorite part of this.

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  Justice League: Warworld 2023

  Watched 18 Mar 2025

  I wish each of the genre alternate realities were their own movie

Popular reviews

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  The Sandlot 2 2005

  ★★★ Rewatched 18 May 2021 3

  Is this bad? Absolutely. Did I watch it every day one summer and subsequently base my hair and style after Haley? Absolutely.

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  For You (Short Film) 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Nov 2021

  "Bye bye, car."
  I am dying to see Barry in a feature length role like this. He is incredibly naturalistic in the role of caring boyfriend, and he does it with an ease so ingenuous, it's like breathing. I hope a director sees this and presents the opportunity. Really lovely short film.

  End note- my God, if I wasn't already head over heels in love with this guy, I'd be on the floor. I realized this was the first time…