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Favorite films

  • I Am Cuba
  • My Neighbor Totoro
  • Thelma & Louise
  • Parasite

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  • No Other Land

    ★★★★★

  • The Apprentice

    ★★★½

  • Music and Lyrics

    ★★★½

  • Gravity

    ★★★

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  • Taxi Driver

    Taxi Driver

    ★★★★★

    Him  (an incel)  pulls out a poster of Bickle: “this will go well next to my Patrick Bateman shrine” 

    ME (a feminist intellectual and auteur) brings a picture of Bickle to the hair salon: “i think i can pull off the mohawk look”

  • La Chimera

    La Chimera

    ★★★★★

    This was both funnier and heavier than I thought it would be.

    In the most intimate sense, it’s a story about loss. The loss of a great love, the loss of one’s gift/unique talent, the loss of a home, the loss of an invaluable treasure, the loss of life. 

    And in its broadest sense it’s a questioning of human’s relationship to the after life, to our ancestry, to the sacred and to our past. 

    The Englishman and his cadre of…

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  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    ★★★★★

    From the river to the sea we will see a free Palestine.

    Harrowing watch. Incredibly well paced, the narration and the introduction of historial analysis and personal story telling is some of the best I have seen in a documentary. 

    The scene of Basel’s father in the bus filled with children and speaking about Palestinian’s “special power” shredded my heart. 

    ♥️ 🖤🤍💚

  • The Apprentice

    The Apprentice

    ★★★½

    Sebastian Stan is TERRIFIC! Jeremy Strong is INCREDIBLE! (insert Stan’s perfect Donald accent here)

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    This was in the realm of 3,5 to 4,0 for me but as I often think to myself “I’m just a girl handing out 4 star reviews!”

    This wasn’t quite as polished or tbf clever as other Joon-ho’s films that I have watched, not just the masterpiece that is Parasite, but probably below Snowpiercer and The Host as well. I think that’s mostly because the Ruffalo and Colette bits and dialogue are kind of obvious and overly done.

    In terms…

  • Scream 7

    Scream 7

    ½

    Firing your lead actress because of her stand against genocide is actually the scariest and most vile thing this reboot of the franchise has managed to do. Boycott the fuck out of this movie. Solidarity with Melissa Barrera ✊🏽