Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  At Least You Know You Exist 2011

  Watched 09 Mar 2025

  “because of you, i know that i exist”

  watched on the big screen (also with daniel).
  cried so much after hearing that line as i reflected on each and every older queer person in my life with whom i’ve cultivated a type of mentor-mentee/ mother-daughter/ sisterly/ brotherly/ fatherly relationship, and the ways in which i constantly grow into/ find myself through these relationships! very lovely short film methinks

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  The Queen 1968

  ★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  a riveting archival piece! felt in my bones every word crystal labeija chucked at rachel harlow after the contest, and during q&a, after the screening, some white dude was like “i was personally very close to rachel and i don’t realllyy knoww if “racism” played a part in her winnn… rachel was perfect, she had perfect skin” like. hmm die maybe? though thankfully the hosts quickly moved on to other audience members’ questions. anyway it was a triple feature of this film, ‘queen of hearts,’ and ‘at least you know you exist’ at the hammer museum!
  watched with daniel :)

Popular reviews

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  Crazy Rich Asians 2018

  ½ Watched 21 Jun 2021 5

  (i wrote this review in high school btw,, just fyi LOL)

  Reasons I hate this film in a somewhat incomprehensive list because I wrote it while watching and I’m not gonna write an MLA format essay right now 

  The opening quote “Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” -Napoleon Bonaparte, famous French Imperialist and self proclaimed emperor of France. Yikes
  The first people we see are white British people
  The opening scene is predicated on…

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Jul 2024

  The only other film that made me react in this way, or at least in a similar way… (tbh sobbing in a regal edward’s restroom stall) was Mysterious Skin. i feel like my heart and my guts were ripped out and dangled above me. sky and i held hands tho and that helped a lot! 
  Korean Transfem Convention + Sky needed to debrief at Denny’s till 2 am right after.

  Will return to this in a number of years..