Letterboxd — Your life in film

“lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off, but it’s better if you do.” 

“you like him coming in your face?”
“yes.”
“how does it taste?”
“it tastes like you but sweeter.”

pretty wild how panic! at the disco and fall out boy lifted their lines directly from closer (2004). like, out of all the movies in the world why did this one resonate so deeply with pop punk bands? the entire plot is…

not gonna lie, seeing all these white actors play korean people really rubbed me the wrong way. i have no idea as to why they didn’t just cut the neo seoul parts that feature several prominent white actors (jim sturgess, hugo weaving, and my husband hugh grant) in elaborate yellowface. the film is already 3 hours long; why not just scrap that section so as not to go to the trouble of unnecessarily putting white people in the make up…

"I don't give a shit what people think. I know what's real, I don't care if people don't think feminism is important, because I know it is... And other people can think what they want. My problem is when people get in the way of feminism... because they don't understand it. And if they don't believe in it or they don't want to care about it, that's totally fine! But they should have to stay out of my way."

this…

(My review for Much Ado About Cinema)

Madeline’s Madeline is unafraid to delve into the volatile psyche of a teenage artist. Art is so often used as a tool to sort through perplexing emotions, so it makes sense that struggling teens tend to lose themselves in this low-cost form of therapy. This semi-experimental fever dream poses the question: At what point in the creative process does art as personal self-expression begin to do more harm than good?

Madeline (newcomer Helena…