are we to understand that the outfits people are wearing in this movie are largely their own clothes? because i can't decide whose idea it was to foreground Debbie's matte neutral oatmeal/beige belted appliqued dress worn over white/off-white longsleeve buttoned top and white capri pants with auburn ankle boots because for me that outfit is the whole movie. THAT DRESS HAS POCKETS!!! if i fall hard for anything it is a brutalist 80's dress but this one has cute little…

I really am pretty dumb. Like, most of the time I am like yeah Casablanca, whatever, Michael Curtiz, yeah, he's ok, he's like, kind of a dependable hack?, i am not sure what people see in that movie a movie i have seen partially lots of times but intentionally only once in college when someone sat me down someone i really loved and Casablanca was their favorite movie the movie that made the most sense to them emotionally at that…

When I was an agoraphobic psychotic 13 year old in 1987, my most prized possession was a VHS tape I had made myself by recording David Cronenberg's The Fly and Aliens off of HBO. I watched those movies over and over. I barely went to school that fall. I had not finished the end of 7th Grade because incarcerated in a for-profit psychiatric hospital for children, let out to go to an academic summer program, which was a bad idea…