movie_penguin

movie_penguin

Favorite films

  • Beauty and the Beast
  • A Christmas Story
  • Hamlet
  • Alien

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  • Begotten

  • Audition

    ★★★½

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

  • Pride & Prejudice

    ★★★

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  • Begotten

    Begotten

    I watched this movie while folding little origami fish to gift to my French professors tomorrow and now i will always imagine this film when I think of origami fish and i will think of origami fish when I think of this film. Probably the first person on earth who has made this association.

  • Audition

    Audition

    ★★★½

    What a good horror movie! Loved the way it was pulled off. Don't have much to say but I was pleasantly surprised by this.

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  • Finding Jesus 2

    Finding Jesus 2

    ★★

    These movies bring up a bunch of uncomfortable questions about Christianity in the fish world. There are no references to humans made in the movies as far as I can tell, which means... Jesus was a fish, right? If Jesus was a fish, how was he crucified? The fish quote verses from the old testament mentioning the Israelites which implies the existence of fish Judaism, right? The movies avoid specifically mentioning geographical locations like Egypt but that makes things even…

  • The Other Boleyn Girl

    The Other Boleyn Girl

    ★½

    So last year I won a major writing award at my university for a stage play I had written about Catherine of Aragon's early years in England and her marriage to Prince Arthur. So I'm pretty well-versed in Tudor history. And I feel like this movie made me NOT want to write more about Anne herself because it made me realize just how trite depictions of their story can be. Like I have a few scenes of a sequel play…

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