fascinated by the way such a stunning filmmaker can grab me and lose me alternatingly; it’s guess it’s not my place to pick and choose what britishisms (derogatory) i find silly and enjoyable and which ones bore and tire me, that the whip-crack dialogue and the delicate mise-en-scene and the lush sacha vierney cinematography come likewise from the mind of a guy whose satire of misogyny contains so very many jokes about black male virility and uses of the word “oriental”,…
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Kamikaze Girls 2004
the most important thing about being a woman in a loving friendship with another is that neither of you get to start real; you both have to fake and fight and scream and rage and love your way there! and isn’t it a splendid gift, this counterfeit life, these wild falsehoods, with someone in the same shit shouting back an even bigger lie everytime!
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Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- 2025
there are a bunch of loaded ways to watch gquuuuuux beginning, and it will helpfully load you up on expectations as soon as it starts, opening with the familiar narration from 0079, but then trickling in lil bits of canon divergence as soon as it can (is that the new york skyline in the colony drop shot???(yes i know sydney as the victim of the colony drop was only canonized in gundam narrative shut up shut up)), but as its…
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
“please, save your life
because you’ve only got one”
- morrissey, on the smiths’ “this night has opened my eyes”a sweetheart with sad eyes — love letter to the weird queer kids verging someday toward capital-letter f-slur-dom whose best earliest replacement for life/love/community is being trapped in a world of mass-market narrative slop, their skies bounded by the upper edge of the single-camera’s lens. high-concept but jittery and transgessive on the back of its spectacular lead actors; justice smith…
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