"Do you ever feel like you fucked up somewhere a long time ago, and you're living the wrong life? Like a bad version of the life you're supposed to have?"

Sam is a fucking loser.

He feels like he fucked up somewhere long ago and is now living the Black Mirror version of what his life was supposed to be. He constantly feels inadequate, which makes sense, because, you know, he's broke and about to be evicted, but the way…

"When people love each other, they don't stop loving when things go wrong."

A young dancer contracts polio and struggles to deal with the physical and mental rehabilitation required in order to literally get back on her feet. This semi-autobiographical social-issue drama from Ida Lupino focuses primarily on the psychological disenfranchisement that polio entails: Sally Forrest not only loses her ability to dance, she loses the ability to support herself, to believe in herself. Keefe Brasselle tries to be patient…

"Hey pretty girl, time to wake up."

There was a time not too long ago when if you asked me what my favorite movie was I might have told you Mulholland Drive. There's a lot going on in the film and I certainly won't claim to understand all of it (something I might have done when it was my "favorite movie"), but I do have a reading of it that seems to answer a lot of the questions it poses,…

Ever since I joined Letterboxd, nothing has scared me more than the idea of trying to write about 2001: A Space Odyssey. The fact that everything has "already been said" about this masterpiece has itself already been said so many times that there's not even an original means of expressing my lack of originality left at my disposal. So with the knowledge that I will probably never be able to fully encapsulate what makes this my favorite movie of all…