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  What We Do in the Shadows 2014

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Jul 2022

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

  “What are we?”

  “Werewolves, not swearwolves.”

  What We Do in the Shadows is a 2014 New Zealand mockumentary horror comedy film written and directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi which concerns several vampires who live together in a flat in Wellington.

  An adaptation of the 2005 short film What We Do in the Shadows: Interviews With Some Vampires, I’m incredibly happy that I get to review this for my film review group. 

  Lovingly paying homage to films such as…

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  Dead Poets Society 1989

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Apr 2020 7

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

  "Oh Captain, my Captain!"

  This review discusses homophobia, emotional abuse and suicide, so if you're sensitive to those topics, I would recommend maybe shying away.

  Ever since I've started reviewing movies here on Letterboxd, I've cometo somewhat of a realisation; I cry way too easily when watching good, or sometimes not-so-good, but still emotional, movies.

  I've been recommended Dead Poets Society a number of times now from mutuals on my Twitter, but never really got around to watching because I…

Recent reviews

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  Transformers: Rise of the Beasts 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Jun 2023

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

  “Unite or fall.”

  Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is a 2023 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Caple Jr. which follows the Autobots as they join forces with an ancient group of Maximals to stop the Terrorcons. 

  After suffering through the Transformers films this year, finally, this new entry has come out and surprise, surprise, it’s actually really entertaining.  

  Despite some expositional dialogue and some weak CGI near the end, this was a surprisingly entertaining and funny…

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Jun 2023

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

  “Everyone keeps telling me how my story is supposed to go. Nah. I'm-a do my own thing.”

  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a 2023 American computer-animated superhero film directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson which follows Miles as he goes on an adventure with Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman across the multiverse where he meets a new team of Spider-People known as the Spider-Society, led by Miguel O' Hara / Spider-Man 2099, but comes into conflict with them…

Popular reviews

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  They/Them 2022

  ½ Watched 06 Aug 2022 2

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

  “Gay people are a-okay with me!” 

  They/Them is a 2022 American slasher film written and directed by John Logan which follows a group of LGBTQ teens who are targeted by a serial killer while attending a conversion camp.

  Making waves due to its memorable (and in my opinion clever) title, They/Them was a movie that worried me a lot based on its concept — I’m not against films set at a conversion camp as I love But I’m A Cheerleader,…

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  After Ever Happy 2022

  Watched 12 Nov 2021

  this exists to spite me personally