Dec 2, 2025
i forgive you. well, i don't. unfathomably Wrong as an adaptation, Shelley would be rolling in her grave. the fucking AUDACITY to quote Byro
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i forgive you. well, i don't. unfathomably Wrong as an adaptation, Shelley would be rolling in her grave. the fucking AUDACITY to quote Byro
My ★★★★½ review of 7 Women and a Murder on Letterboxd
what a fucking day. camp! cunt! one for the girlies during a sleepover, or for rainy, cold nights with hot drinks. honestly just a fucking b
it sparks joy, idk what to tell you! wild how the best Ghibli movie so far is barely a Ghibli movie, it's so strange to me that this is a TV-movie and did not get a worldwide theatrical release bc this deserved to be seen by fucking everybody. i don't even mind the terrible gender politics and casual misogyny of this that much because there's arguments to be made for accuracy to real life and the movie seems to understand them as a function of teenage years and naivete but my god, it just has so much of my heart. this is the first non-Indian movie i can recall that depicts a school experience that feels even remotely close to mine and that already gets it more points from me but the rest of the movie also fucking rules. my one substantive critique beyond the gender politics is that it's not nearly gay enough. this is like if Only Yesterday was an actually good movie. the timing of me watching this after (500) Days of Summer is just incredibly funny because this feels a lot like proto-(500) Days of Summer, thematically. somehow one of the best movies about being a teenager and their myopic worldview i've seen???
it's okay if nobody else loves this movie as much as me or gets it like i do, but this really is so special to me.
My ★★★★★ review of Ocean Waves (1993) on @letterboxd:
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My ★★★★½ review of Black Bag on Letterboxd
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honestly, it's like. an amalgamation of every Apes movie so far, with maybe wayyyyyy too much of Tim Burton's Apes movie in it. but it is, at least, like, actually good. it's a good popcorn flick but it literally gives up halfway through an already unoriginal idea that's immediately obvious the second you hear the protagonist's name. kind of an entirely unnecessary movie bc nothing actually happens in it that changes anything about the world of the Apes or our perspective on them or our understanding of them in a way that we haven't seen before? this also doesn't really have anything to say? which really makes it somehow be the least original and most uninteresting Apes movie.
My ★★★ review of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes on Letterboxd
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holy shit, what a fucking movie. honestly, going in i had absolutely no idea what it was about, i only knew it was gay and NSFW and that's it. i didn't even know what fucking genre this was, or even a slight inkling about the plot, and i think that's the best way to go in because holy shit this goes in directions i'd never expected. a wild, wild fucking thriller. gay people are so dramatic, i love us. genuinely just a great fucking thriller. haven't had an adrenaline rush like this in so fucking long, i miss it so bad. literally everything about this rules so much.
My ★★★★★ review of Swallowed on Letterboxd
you know, the only reason we haven't fucked is because i love you too much. holy shit, what a fucking movie. honestly, going in i had absolu
this is a hard movie for me to talk about because, somehow, as a trans person from india, i am NOT actually the audience for this movie despite this heavily featuring both india and trans people. this kind of feels like an apology letter for Slumdog Millionaire while still playing more to western audiences than it does to indian ones. i have a lot of little hangups with this movie, even recognizing i'm not the audience for it, and we will get into those in a little bit.
having never seen John Wick, this is kind of indian John Wick, now with a mediocre execution of attempted political criticism? i mean, it's an incredibly made action movie, everybody fucking knocks it out of the goddamn park as far as the technical aspects of this go, especially Dev Patel whose impeccable direction and acting almost single-handedly carry this movie on his goddamn back. but also it's like? very strange to talk about when you're not the audience because it's hard to separate what you know compared to what the audience of this movie is expected to know. but i am extremely excited to see what Dev Patel does next, i WILL be seated there day one.
My ★★★★½ review of Monkey Man on Letterboxd
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perhaps the only movie to really understand the appeal of sheer bonkers comic silliness. invented camp, but also, Schumacher finds so much genuinely touching pathos and pain underneath the glitz and the glam, and he is way more successful at it than Burton was at any point. there's really not much to say about this, you just have to experience it yourself. if you think this sucks, i'm sorry you're straight and boring, i hope you get better some day. this is Batman Forever with the camp turned even higher, and no Jim Carrey to drag the movie down, so it rules!! it almost doesn't have pacing issues!!! Joel Schumacher is the only person who gets both Bruce Wayne and Batman besides Matt Reeves. thankfully, this is still gay as fuck!!!
My ★★★★½ review of Batman & Robin on Letterboxd:
well, i, my most unabominable snowman, have been impressed by you. perhaps the only movie to really understand the appeal of sheer bonkers c