Just wanted to say another quick thank you to everyone! Thank you so much for getting me to over 4,000 followers and I truly appreciate the support— big or small— over the past year! To celebrate: I’ll be doing a giveaway right here on Letterboxd, in the next few days!
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Here’s some future reviews coming soon to Letterboxd, MyNewsLike.com (and possibly YouTube)!
- Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension
- Phineas and Ferb: Candace Against the Universe
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Tigertail is not only a powerful love story on the importance of self-worth and not wasting your life for others, but also explores the hardships that most immigrants face. Our main character Pin-Jui is talked down to in childhood by his grandma, (who raises him in place of his parents) telling him to keep a brave face and the importance of maturity. She might not mean to discourage him, but over the 2nd act, you see how his upbringing, along…
A “cut above”
While Uncut Gems is mostly perfect, I still had a few issues with it. The pacing towards the middle, subtle humor, and abrupt ending, pull the film down to a degree. There’s also no clear messages, which made me wonder what the film’s true intent was. Still The Safdie Brothers and Ronald Bronstein have created something so jarring (in a good way) that it must be seen to be believed. The filmmaking combined with Adam Sandler’s performance…
“A time to remember”
Other than the lack of violence and character development throughout most of 1917, it is truly a masterpiece. Like many war films I’ve seen, we don’t get much background for the central protagonists. Yet somehow, I still found myself concerned for them here. Most of that has to do with the “one shot” editing/ cinematography work helmed by Lee Smith and Roger Deakins, respectively. I felt like I was apart of the war itself, especially this…
