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So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

what pain lives beneath your judgment?

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The great @bilgeebiri.bsky.social joins the podcast to offer wide-ranging insights into Steven Spielberg's career and discuss why he thinks TEMPLE OF DOOM might actually be Spielberg's best-directed film!

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A ★★★ review of Howl's Moving Castle (2004) Does it make a lot of sense? No. But is it an accurate depiction of the source novel? Also no. However it’s hard to be overly critical of Miyazaki, even if this is merely a post-Spirited Away victory ...

Very late to the game on this one

A ★★½ review of Better Man (2024) Okay so he’s a monkey. Other than that this is total boilerplate material. Rags to riches to rags and back to riches again, with standard issue substance abuse and imposter syndrome struggles. Not to ...

🎶Too much monkey business🎶

A ★★★★ review of The Brutalist (2024) Back in the booth for an awards season 70mm run of this, and glad to be spending more time with it. Upon revisiting I think the claim that this is just PTA cosplay is reductive and unfair; to my mind ...

Second review

A ★★★★ review of The Brutalist (2024) Didn’t know Brady Corbet had this in him! It’s a very shrewd production, cleverly scouting the right locations to make the most of the VistaVision format (the cinematography nerd in me gleefully gawke...

First review

A ★★★½ review of One of Them Days (2025) Exists in the tradition of other urban absurdist comedies like Friday and BAPS and joins their ranks proudly, with eyes wide open. It’s a heavy dose of charisma from Keke and SZA but they have it to s...

Very fun!

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Especially these next 4 years we gotta keep reminding our LGBTQIA+ peeps that they are loved and welcomed here.

That’s not a mini, that’s a maxi! *cue Laura Bailey snicker*

#criticalrole

A ★★★½ review of Flow (2024) I really like this. It’s GORGEOUS and very atmospheric, and it has a magical realist spirit to it which is very meditative. Amazing sound. As a bonafide cat person and animation enthusiast it has me w...

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A ★★★ review of A Complete Unknown (2024) I usually like James Mangold quite a bit but this comes off vapid most of the time. There’s a few moments that cut through, namely the ones with Monica Barbaro’s Joan Baez and the scene where he debut...

Coulda been worse!

A ★★★½ review of Queer (2024) Like poetry, this is more a series of phrases than a story but Luca Guadagnino has the right understanding of cinema and queerness and Burroughs’ work to make it happen (I’m only a novice with his stu...

Love to see Daniel enjoying his post-Bond era

A ★★★½ review of Nosferatu (2024) Murnau’s original from 1922 is a formative title for me, having seen it at a young and impressionable age. So expectations for this were high, especially given my appreciation for Eggers’ previous wor...

Good, but not great

A ★★★★ review of The Last Showgirl (2024) This is just my kind of heartbreak, and my kind of filmmaking- low resource, high devotion. A charmed little movie full of the right people for the job. Much like her characters, Gia Coppola’s Vegas i...

Really rooting for this one!

Or Max/HBO if you have that.

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My roommates and my job as a projectionist conspired to make this hilarious accidental trilogy @letterboxd.social

Okay it’s 2pm on Christmas, time to start drinking 🍻

A ★★★ review of Unhinged (2020) Stepdad making big swings with the remote this holiday! Choosing this for Christmas morning while awaiting the start of football. Russell Crowe is indeed unhinged, a less stylish and meaner Falling Do...

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Also, hi. I guess I’m here now? Merry Christmas!

A ★★★★ review of Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Still working on this puzzle, we’ve got it on the ropes. But I have steered my stepdad away from the Riddick franchise lest my mother stab him with a fork and directed him toward the perfectly agreeab...

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A ★★ review of The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) Okay, stepdad went for round two with these! What a gaudy follow up, and how we go from a low profile sci-fi horror piece to this in one movie I will never understand. But here it is, Lord of the Ring...

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A ★★★★ review of Pitch Black (2000) Still working on a puzzle and the stepdad unearthed this from the bowels of his Blu-ray collection. Honestly I still love it. It has the proud spirit of a genuine popcorn movie, an offering of bite-si...

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