The shortest path from the cue ball to the nine ball is through the lens of Scorsese’s camera.
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage 2021
The MCU and its consequences have been a disaster for the capeshit industry
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Interstellar 2014
“A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.” - G. H. Hardy
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The Birdcage 1996
I (20M) am getting married and my fiancé’s (18F) homophobic parents (48F, 66M) are coming to dinner tomorrow night, so I made my parents (40M, 45M) play straight to save me from embarrassment. AITA?
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Caddyshack 1980
Expected Groundhog Day + Happy Gilmore, received bargain bin WHAS + Naked Lunch + the Confederate Ben episode of Twin Peaks. Overindulgent freak show cabaret sativa trip, complete with Ramis’ signature Buddhist mumblings and chaotic discombobulation. ???/5 stars!
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Forget Me Not 2015
Some observations from a second viewing: there’s an immensely unspoken emphasis placed on implications here, largely in how the third act revelations are subtly built up and implied in small doses, in addition to the way that repetition is utilized and framed. Initially, I didn’t pick up on how critical of a role the presence of digital video capture here plays; Takashi’s attempts to physically record his memory through note-taking, reminders, and photographs are tangible and, as such, are embedded…
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Our Love Story 2016
Top 5 tricks to get cute timid baggy sweater ripped jeans art student to come home with you (number two will leave you heartbroken)
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Moonlit Winter 2019
P.S. I dream about you too.
Warm blanket cinema. Hugs have never been so comfy in film before -
Lingua Franca 2019
To refute those who feel that there is too much Alex rather than Olivia—(1) this is, primarily, a “romance” film, and not a “queer” film, and (2) it is crucial in the development of the queer cinema to understand both the perception of and at the queer person(s). In this case, providing the view of “transness” from the lens of the other demonstrates transness as a specimen within a richly complex and dangerous ecosystem that, even when perceived without active hostility (through “allyship”), can still be equivocal to violence. It is in the nuances of these perspectives that the notion of a queer cinema must gestate.
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Twilight 2008
Very nice PNW greens and blues. Nails Oregon/Washington wetness very well. Bokeh in prom scene is delicious.
Carter Burwell score?? Nice sparse piano. Twin Peaks-esque.
Charlie is top ten movie dads
Insane theater experience. Lots of clapping and cheering and laughing. Certified hardcore dumb movie
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