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We're all hurtling towards death… yet here we are, for the moment, alive.

Favorite films

  • The Handmaiden
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • The Sixth Sense
  • Spirited Away

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  • The Strangers: Prey at Night

    ★★★½

  • When in Rome

    ★★★½

  • Anora

    ★★★★½

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★

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  • Nomadland

    Nomadland

    ★★★★★

    “what’s remembered lives”

    My spouse Dean (they/them) didn’t have much money growing up, and had only humble aspirations in life. They wanted to work as an assistant, because they liked helping people and figured it was a job they’d excel at (which I always agreed with). They wanted to build a garden. They wanted to raise kids with me. And, perhaps more than anything, they wanted to live in a van as a nomad.

    We talked about it a lot.…

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  • Inu-Oh

    Inu-Oh

    ★★★★

    A film about bodily transformation, the power of choosing your own name, how “everything is fiction”… with an increasingly androgynous protagonist…

    ahahahaha it’s trans the movie’s trans it’s trans it’s trans it’s trans

    (also very good and funny and touching. I loved the fight to tell lost stories, and the commentary on how history is written by those in power. the animation was consistently gorgeous and ambitious. very very satisfying blind watch.)

  • Aftersun

    Aftersun

    ★★★★★

    "I think it's nice that we share the same sky."

    So good it makes me want to dig my fingernails into my chest and tear my heart out piece by broken piece. I think I'm permanently emo now.

    Funny that Barry Jenkins produced this one, as it's perhaps THE first film I've seen since 2016 to recapture the feeling of Moonlight pulling me in and then, before I even know it's coming, crashing down on me with the weight of…