2014 was a year of changes for me. I was 16, going on 17 and filled to the brim with teenage angst. This year brought my first real girlfriend, and with it, my first real heartbreak. I came into my final year of high school and was naturally incredibly anxious about my fast-approaching life in college. It was a very turbulent year, and at the end of it, I discovered Boyhood. I watched Boyhood in a way I'd never watched…
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20th Century Women 2016
It's often difficult to be honest with ourselves: to actually experience our emotions rather than pretending they aren't there.
Mike Mills has a talent for revealing these types of beautiful emotional truths. Watching his characters be so unafraid of who they are is a delight. Annette Bening's Dorothea provides an audience surrogate in her struggle with coming to terms with that. She wants what's best for her son but it needs to be on her own terms, even as she…
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The Wolf Man 1941
Fun fact Lon Chaney Jr. didn't even need prosthetics, his face just does that
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The Whale 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The screenwriter, calling himself Charlie, is confined to his apartment with the spirit of a man named Allen. Charlie is a morbidly obese gay man on the verge of death. He teaches writing courses for an online college. Every movement, from rolling over to standing requires the greatest possible effort. Charlie is a shell of his former self. He drowns the mistakes of his past in mountains of food, trying to drown out the gnawing guilt and suffering. He has…
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