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Stories

NOSTALGIA

Occasionally, art doesn't explain itself in plain terms. The reasons you love a film won't always translate to others, and they won't always make sense to you, either. There's a certain disconnection that happens when we're dishonest in our relationship with art, and nostalgia is a profoundly honest window into the source of our artistic values. It is as though we are given a grace period to set our fervent passions, likes, and dislikes to unconsciously keep with us as…

Minju’s Guide to Drunk Movie Appreciation

I don’t have the best taste in movies when I’m sober. Nor do I give the best recommendations. I’m horrible at reading between the lines, picking up symbols, understanding what actors are saying without subtitles… Fuck, I have to admit, I rely on analytical youtube videos to wrap my brain around a film. A film is good to me if it’s good. I guess I have a sixth sense. The solution is to indulge myself in alcohol every now and…

Recent reviews

“I want to talk to you. Without speaking.”

A throwaway line spoken by Daniel Craig's William Lee, while drunk and desperate, ends up describing the essence of the film in its totality. Queer to me was romantic, uncomfortable, and touching.

Set in the 50s in Mexico City, this movie is rife with the colourfulness of this loud city. It is stylistically and wholly a Guadagnino film. We can see it in the atmosphere he's curated; Summertime. A morning cigarette. And…

Liked reviews

really had the space to make anything and this is what they turned up with…

Stalker

Stalker

★★★★★

The cinematography absolutely breathtaking. The world Tarkovsky transports us into is at times peaceful yet beautifully terrible. One of the best pieces of cinema I have seen in a long time.