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Challengers 2024
The cinematic equivalent to pulling out.
Tennis is sexy. I agree with Zendaya’s character’s assertion that it's a relationship. It's intimate. Like chess, but with a visceral physical, sweaty element.
I was engaged with the characters and the tension worked for most of the movie as layer after layer of context by way of flashbacks twisted the knife further and further. “You'd have a better shot with a gun in your mouth,” is one of many great lines. I wanted…
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Caged 1950
Film noir is well-known for its dark themes, but among the betrayals, murders, corruption, and lose-lose games I’ve witnessed in the genre, I found this to be among the very darkest.
Typically, when 'Women in Prison' films come to mind, I envision the campy exploitation flicks of the 70s and 80s I'd sneakily peruse in my childhood video store. This three-time academy award nominated film is not one of those.
Eleanor Parker, who plays the lead, is incredible, portraying essentially…
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In the Mood for Love 2000
Not in the mood for this.
Came on The Criterion Channel and was excited to watch something I'd seen high on a lot of acclaimed movie lists, but was left bored and completely baffled.
This would make a good cinematography reel. I do not understand the acclaim for it at all.
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
Let's all just collectively call this “The Pink Opaque.”
The film definitely left me scratching my head at first, but mostly because of its shockingly original voice that took me by surprise.
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This is not a queer coming-of-age story as traditional formula may have you believe, it’s a queer horror story. The fun social themes of connecting with others through pop culture gets twisted into a hellish nightmare. One character ends up burying themself alive at a young age…
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Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones 2002
Basically a sacred text.
This movie, like Episode 1, is a film I loved as a kid for fewer reasons than I love it now. This is as close as Star Wars films get to film noir. We’ve got a labyrinthian plot revolving around an event we never see, (Sifo-Dyas ordering the Clone Army on behalf of the republic 10 years prior,) we have a mystery to solve, we observe the city on the hill fall to political corruption, the…
