shrikenw

shrikenw

You can’t wake up if you don’t fall asleep.

Favorite films

  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • In Bruges
  • A Serious Man
  • Vanya on 42nd Street

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Eephus

    ★★★★★

  • Mission: Impossible II

    ★★½

  • Mission: Impossible

    ★★★½

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    “Are you tightening your anal sphincter?”

    Soooooo slick. Great screenplay full of so many fun little metaphors. Saw a tight spy thriller for $6 on a Tuesday and was out at 8:30. The dream of the 90’s is alive.

  • Eephus

    Eephus

    ★★★★★

    “Today, I consider myself…the luckiest man…on the face of the earth.”
        —  ̶L̶o̶u̶ ̶G̶e̶h̶r̶i̶g̶ Frannie

    "To be frank, I think his world had vanished long before he even entered it. But I will say, he certainly sustained the illusion with a marvelous grace."
        — Zero Moustafa

    "I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant…

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  • Envy/Desire

    Envy/Desire

    ½

    “He’s probably at your place right now, trying on your clothes and fapping to sissy hypnosis.”

    If you’re gonna make a movie reproducing the worst aspects of Brooklyn mean-girl trans bullying, maybe you should try writing a single joke that lands, not lighting your sets like a mattress commercial, composing shots at all, having comprehensible audio mixing, or displaying any sort of talent or care whatsoever beyond making up a clocky girl to get mad at.

    A lot of films make you think “the book was better.” This is the first I’ve seen that makes you say “the /ttt/ post was better.”

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★★

    Thought I was doing fine and then I burst into tears when the title card appeared. THERE IS STILL TIME

    Saw at SIFF Egyptian, premiere with appearance by director.