• Past Lives

    Past Lives

    ★★★★½

    10s into the film Greta  did that “cate blanchett neck tilt & stare into the camera”… I KNEW right then girlie was going for that oscar!!

  • Theater Camp

    Theater Camp

    ★★★

    I get it y’all are theatre nerds 😭

  • Chungking Express

    Chungking Express

    ★★★★

    pure midnight date night vibessss

  • Oslo, August 31st

    Oslo, August 31st

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    Joachim Trier, in an interview for Oslo, said the emblem of a classical tragedy is that the catharsis always lies outside of the story itself. I’ve never understood (nor cared much for) the concept until this. 

    What a strange but fulfilling sort of catharsis this is.

    It’s incredibly hard not to sentimentalise or patronise a story of a chronically depressed (rehabilitating!) drug addict’s last day on earth. Trier, in my opinion, manages to avoid doing both, yet his direction is…

  • Harvie Krumpet

    Harvie Krumpet

    ★★★½

    🤷

  • Aftersun

    Aftersun

    hyped it forever and saw it at some cost 

    also the friend who watched it before me and told me I’d relate to the dad is no longer w us. i killed her 🫶

  • Beau Is Afraid

    Beau Is Afraid

    ★½

    let me out of the cinema

  • Babylon

    Babylon

    ★★★½

    Truly a hot mess of a movie trying to capture the kaleidoscopic hyper-saturated burner engine that is Hollywood. There were moments I loved and moments I absolutely did not, but I think it could definitely have used less runtime. Gorgeous in technicals and score as always though.

    This might have worked more for me as a era-specific satire, but it seems that (true to form) Chazelle went in with nothing short of awe for what he is trying to show…

  • Three Colours: Red

    Three Colours: Red

    ★★★★½

    I always think about Ebert writing back in 2003 — a year after his cancer diagnosis — that Kieślowski is a director he’d turn to for consolation if he learned he was dying, or to laugh with on finding out he would live after all.

    The three colours trilogy, for me, is a visual education in humanist(?) ideals and red serves as a climactic conclusion… of sorts. It’s the best standalone piece of the three, without a doubt. It’s Kieślowski‘s lens through which he…

  • Three Colours: White

    Three Colours: White

    ★★★½

    Fun interlude, really enjoyed the comedic elements — a breather was needed

  • Three Colours: Blue

    Three Colours: Blue

    ★★★½

    Can’t help but feel that my interpretation of blue is bleaker than what kieślowski intended lmao…or maybe not? guy’s a self-claimed pessimist(?). I do find this sits better when considered as the starting point of the trilogy, a progression that ends in (evolves into!) red — but less on its own. Anyhow, Juliette Binoche is a vision.

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★

    those red AJ1s look so slick and in line with the spiderman fit tom hollandaise needs to have it in his contract to wear it in every marvel movie about him from now on