cinethia

getting a vhs player opens a door to watching some real detritus from the 80s/90s just cause it would be fun to own on tape

Ana de Armas is very bad in Ballerina but makes up for it with her ability to eat shit in fights #WomenInMaleFields

our divorce is imminent when they put nico in tokon in 2 years

the characters in the game are saved from this grisly fate by being french and thus too cool to not be reading something that isnt manga or some sicko shit

the big reveal in the Gemma episode being that outie mark still sucks but for even less sympathetic reasons was killing me what are we doing here

becoming a Star Wars guy in 2025 and it’s destroying me both mentally and physically

watching The Fabelmans really does add a layer of dread to every other Spielberg movie when it starts being about the pursuit of art harming the family unit

MS: I've noticed that all the way through this conversation David, you've referred to him in the present tense. DL: You have to keep Angelo alive. I believe life is a continuum, and that no one really dies, they just drop their physical body and we'll all meet again, like the song says. It's sad but it's not devastating if you think like that. Otherwise I don't see how anybody could ever, once they see someone die, that they'd just disappear forever and that's what we're all bound to do. I'm sorry but it just doesn't make any sense, it's a continuum, and we're all going to be fine at the end of the story.

"we were friends for a long time, and then we weren't, and then we fell in love" on love and community in "when harry met sally"

i wrote about friendship and community and the heartbreak of timing when it comes to love in when harry met sally.

My top twelve of 2024

A list of my top ten movies I watched for the first time in 2024: Cutie Honey (2004, Anno), The Devils (1971, Russell), Blow Out (1981, De Palma), Alien³ (1992, Fincher), The Boy Friend (1971, Russell), The Apartment (1960, Wilder), Wild at Heart (1990, Lynch), Licorice Pizza (2021, Anderson), Sorcerer (1977, Friedkin).

My top ten first watches of 2024

idk how many more triple features like this i have in me but its a fun little marathon to spend a whole day doing. rly cute seeing all the families roll in during the afternoon for holiday outings

The last of my Christmas viewings (and the peak of it, honestly) followed by a really fun day at the cinemas!

A REAL PAIN (2024, Eisenberg)

sometimes christmas eve calls for a bleak post-war drama about the nuance of sex work and the struggle of feminine existence under capitalism

Street of Shame (1956, Mizoguchi)

the black lodge is a realm inhabited solely by entities who have never had two cookies and a coke

Drive-Away Dolls and Love Lies Bleeding alone ensured this was a great year for perverts. Hard to believe how chockful 2024 was of raunchy bangers

sword and sandals revival headed by Ridley Scott and Christopher Nolan who's firing on all cylinders

so excited for Warfare of all movies to be the only one A24 does any actual marketing for all year

unironically considered this to grow a happy trail

Kraven the Hunter feels like the movie equivalent of a senior prank. There’s no consequences in a collapsing franchise so might as well get as nonsensical as possible.

what if he was david lunch and he was a real hungry guy

the tier list arc was insane, i rly miss that and the crossword arc

lotad unmatched little guy energy

Guinevere Turner & Cheryl Dunye in THE WATERMELON WOMAN (1996, Cheryl Dunye)

Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern in WILD AT HEART (1990, David Lynch)

Jeremy London and Claire Forlane in MALLRATS (1995, Kevin Smith)

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Faye Wong in CHUNGKING EXPRESS (1994, Wong Kar-Wai)

my butchfemme canon

having super indepth builds i can get rly autistic about while also letting me treat my silly monk like a barbie doll? the best of both worlds

played way, way too much path of exile 2 but wowowow is that fun

every time i play webfishing i do feel like im constantly looking over my shoulder so as to not be a background character in someone's e-sex

wasn’t expecting BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974, Bob Clark) to be both such a foundational proto-slasher as well as an incisive depiction of femicide.