Relationships grow and change. I've been working in recent years on accepting (and grieving) that one of the natural outcomes of a relationship is that people leave my life without leaving my memories. The relationship I have to keep renewing, have to keep pushing for is with myself.
What story do I tell about myself? What does that story help me do? Jane Schoenbrun and co. suggest that the most liberating question to ask pushes further: Who can I tell my stories with?
I got into Letterboxd originally in December 2021. I was depressed, and was distracting myself by revisiting the various Spider-Man franchises before Far From Home dropped. I was lonely, counting down the days until I could take off on a long road trip (that would grow narrower and narrower as COVID's omicron variant spread). I had leaned on a special interest in Marvel comics lore through rough patches since I was a teenager, and had certainly rode the popular waveโฆ
Ghost as a band is not quite my cup of tea. I admire their theatricality and wanted to give this concert film of theirs a try for that reasonโvisually they draw on a range of common emo & metal touchpoints, but blend them together in a memorable and uniquely exaggerated fashion.
Tobias Forge as a frontman is uncharismatic. The interspersed short scenes are stiff and unconvincing. They help pace out the concert, but that's hardly high praise. When the band startsโฆ
One of the best political satires of my generation features many of the most enduring movie quotes of the 2000s. More importantly, Mean Girls also happens to be one of my favorites.
I have fallen off of watching films hard this year. My habit was already on the decline some last year as my healing journey started flourishing more. It wasn't that my enthusiasm for film was incompatible with emotional maturity and my well-being. My choice to take the self-careโฆ
I am so grateful to be alive while George Miller and co. made Fury Road and Furiosa. I haven't been able to find my words yet to describe why this film succeeds in so many ways as a furthering of Miller's ethos as a filmmaker, blending his obsession with storying back into his decadently pungent diesel oil paintings about our sun-scorched future.
If I see something better than Furiosa in theatres this year then we'll all be on a road historic.
