Presley Darnell

Presley Darnell

Teacher, reader, writer, and movie watcher

Favorite films

  • Forrest Gump
  • Under the Tuscan Sun
  • Fried Green Tomatoes
  • Steel Magnolias

Recent activity

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  • Spider-Man: No Way Home

    ★★★★

  • Turning Red

    ★★★★½

  • The Luck of the Irish

    ★★★½

  • Touch of Pink

    ★★★★★

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  • Spider-Man: No Way Home

    Spider-Man: No Way Home

    ★★★★

    A good film. There’s just a lot going on. I could handle the multiverse stuff better in cartoon form. It does really put Spider-Man back to square one by the end in so many ways. I hope they let us see a comeback in the future. I love a good underdog.

  • Turning Red

    Turning Red

    ★★★★½

    I love a nerd and weird friends in middle school. This was also my life, but I never felt I could truly be myself. I think the Red Panda problem in the story gets at it in an interesting way, but I also understand turning POC characters into non-humans is a weird dehumanizing trope sometimes. I’m not sure where this lands on that scale. I did really appreciate a non-western religion being centered and a major part of the story.

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