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  The Tragedy of Macbeth 2021

  Watched by Tay 15 Jan 2022 1

  hMmmMm—some conflicted feelings on this one! three years of Shakespeare adaptation classes in high school plus however many more required courses in college have left me satiated on films from Kurosawa, Branagh, Tamor.

  does the adaptation explore a different leafy shadow? does it reimagine something core to reveal a new light? is it full of feeling—signifying something beyond the page, or the imagined stage?

  maybe unfair or unrealistic standards for any adaptation, but it’s been done—Ran, for instance, is my…

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  22 Jump Street 2014

  Rewatched by Tay 08 Jan 2022

  something LGBT just happened to me

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  Monster House 2006

  ★★½ Added by Tay 17

  who the fuck thought the cement scene was appropriate for a children's film

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  Call Me by Your Name 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched by Tay 10 Nov 2017 51

  dear you,

  as of tonight, there are 500 of you.

  back in middle school, i used to write letters to an online friend named ellie. her real name was laura, but she went by ellie. sometimes i called her larry, as a joke, and she called me tyler, as a joke.

  she had so many names that when we started writing letters to each other, like bonafide pen pals, i'd address them "dear you" -- because sometimes, even when i…