Jewel Frias

Jewel Frias

Just a nerd who loves films, books that are labeled with sci-fi and fantasy in them, and a video game called Cave Story.

Favorite films

  • Paris, Texas
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • The Darjeeling Limited
  • Almost Famous

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  • The Wiz

    ★★

  • Mars Express

    ★★★½

  • Violet Evergarden: The Movie

    ★★★★★

  • A Cat in Paris

    ★★★½

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  • The Wiz

    The Wiz

    ★★

    I relate A LOT to Dorothy's arc in this, and I love the funky 70's set design, and the "He's the Wizard" number. Everything else was just very dry. Dry in its editing, dry in performances, and especially dry in its direction, every musical number, even my favourite, has just such a static nature to it, the camera barely moves, all the shots hold on too long, when it does move its the most robotic way, and the editing doesnt…

  • Mars Express

    Mars Express

    ★★★½

    Caturday Saturday #7

    Stellar animation, characters, and world, has great ideas present about the philosophy of robotics and sentient creatures, I just wish the animation and movie slowed the fuck down and was longer.

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  • Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

    Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

    ★★★

    Fucking hilarious, an excellent parody of hood movies, though I wish it had a more tighter and focused story than just really funny bits stringed along a very loose narrative.

  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    Not gonna dive into the butchered Trans and Latin American elements this film, because many people more educated than me and know a lot more about these topics have free reign to dissect and heavily criticize it for, as they rightfully have. All I'll say is that this is a shitty musical with shitty songs that are shot so poorly, sang so so so badly, end way too short, and feel like their written and orchestrated by fucking AI. The…