Jamila

Gorgeous face card!

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

I’d like to crochet and take voice lessons

It would fit snugly in Crazy Ex Girlfriend

This is so good!

I might be moving back to LA next year. Quite possibly. Definitely. I hope so?🙃

I hope to connect with any one interested who lives out there and. Go. To. The movies! Because that’s mostly what I’ll be doing. That and lots of eating. And beach. I miss the beach.

I would be so down for some Lithgow Lime

Anora (2024) Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened ...

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No you’re right. I was being reductive for the pithy social media post😅Still…a little evil, no?

I need a week off to cry for and watch the melodramatic lives of baby Timothy Hutton and evil Mary Tyler Moore. In other words: I need to rewatch Ordinary People

I’ve written about 69 Palestinian films directed by women in my newsletter over the last year. This list collects them all with links where you can watch most of them.

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Gisele says it best

oh wow! Let me know how it tastes

Love the poster

Never heard of that! Is it cotton candy grape adjacent?

Btw: I still don’t understand

I watched Broken Flowers a long time ago when I was in my “I wanna understand why people love Bill Murray so much” phase. Such a sad movie. Didn’t realize it was a Jarmusch.

Jamila’s profile Jamila uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 2,270 films watched. Favorites: The Panic in Needle Park (1971), Sweet Charity (1969), Crooklyn (1994), Chungking Express (1994). Bio: “…’Cause ...

Gonna use this site to write and talk about films, books, and tv shows and that’s really it. I kind of lost myself on Twitter. Maybe I’ll start a substack? In the meantime, here’s my LB filled with some takes I’m sure I’ve progressed from but I embrace the journey:)
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Yeah me too! She was great!

I think you may be on to something

Oh no! I mean Handmaid’s tale was fetishistic. Sorry if that was unclear. I haven’t yet read Parable of a Sower but I love Octavia Butler

Goals

I haven’t read the book but I couldn’t finish the show because I realized it was so clearly fetishizing the abuse at that point. I just had enough.

Today’s a day, I just want to go about my business, running errands in my car while a Bernard Hermann score plays. True Noirvember vibes.

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky