Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
the best way to describe Barbarian is a cheeseburger- a great cheeseburger…but with a bun that’s been buttered and toasted. a cheeseburger on its own is rather simple, but when cooked to perfection and with good toppings, it’s a damn good meal—-but that buttered and toasted bun gives it some richness and cuts out some dryness. the movie consists almost entirely of standard horror movie structures and tropes, but they’re executed to such a T that it becomes a step above…
kneecap depicts a northern irish rap group (in which they’re played by themselves in real life!) who are rapping in their native irish language, amidst the irish language ban. the movie is wildly funny with many screwball comedy-esque set pieces, but it serves a purpose to depict a truly modern act of rebellion against colonization. as mentioned, only 80,000 people in ireland are native irish speakers, with only 6,000 living in northern ireland- and the three men standing at the front…