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I Saw the TV Glow 2024

★★★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2024 5

It was maybe halfway through Jane Schoenbrun's staggeringly bold sophomore feature, I Saw the TV Glow, when I noticed my breathing was getting quicker, my entire body was beginning to tremble, and tears were welling up in my eyes. In this scene, Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) visits Owen (Justice Smith), her old high-school friend, eight years after she dropped off the face of the Earth. She comes to ask him, "Do you remember a TV show we used to watch?", referring…
In the Cut 2003

★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Aug 2023 2

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

"i thought i was dreaming."
jane campion's misunderstood masterpiece, in the cut, is a film interested in fragmentation- narratively, visually, and thematically. the editing is quick- frantically cutting from shot to shot in a matter of seconds to communicate the paranoia of the protagonist, many frames are blurred at the edges like the flimsy pages of a paperback book stained by water, the progression of the narrative is choppy and inconsistent, scenes end before conversations are finished, victims of murder…

AGGRO DR1FT 2023

Watched 11 May 2024 3

ok he's 100% just fucking with us.
nothing, except everything. 2023

★ Watched 09 May 2024

am i just bitter that i'm not making a feature film produced by darren aronofsky like this kid.... maybe? but also it's just hilarious to me that THIS is the film that got him that deal. seriously, what the fuck is this? yeah he was in highschool when he made it so of course it's shallow and his attempts at philosophical introspection come across as dumb, juvenile, and meaningless, but even then it's just embarrassing. most student films aren't good.…