While You Were Streaming

Welcome to my store. Stay a while. Send me an ask if you want to talk movies or shows.

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Welcome to my shop!

What is this?

This is a rp blog where I review movies, tv shows, and 90s pop culture as Van Palmer from Yellowjackets.

Awesome! What can I do?

Send an ask with a movie or show or a soundtrack/score you want to ‘rent’ and I’ll weigh in on it.

(Any decade is fine! As long as I am able to find it online or at the library)

Search the for the film in the tags to see if I’ve reviewed it. If not, send away!

Other things to know

OP is a bit of a scaredy cat, so be wary of horror recs. I am watching more and more of the genre and am especially open to classics. If I decide it’s too intense for me, I’ll still write a ramble about the pop cultural aspect of it.

TV shows may be difficult if I haven’t watched them, but I’ve watched a lot of 70s-80s-90s tv and am always looking to watch more. Send an episode rec with a tv review and I’ll watch it if I can find it.

Op is a massive pop culture nerd so please feel free to send 70s-80s-90s-y2k related asks.

Taken anons: 🦈

OP is queer/ transmasc/white and from the Midwestern United States.

My Letterboxd

Grab some Red Vines and enjoy.

[boyd-stevens]

BRING IT ON 2000, dir. Peyton Reed

[sophsun1]

The Parent Trap (1998) dir. Nancy Meyers

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Van. I'm a homosexual so I would love a review of But I'm a Cheerleader.

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💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 4 · But I’m a cheerleader Or/ and Donnie darko What a double feature you’re renting! Let’s see what you’ve got here. But I’

An early request on this page!

[magnusedom]

I have run out of time. I have lost it all. So I can’t work fast enough to catch up. I can’t run fast enough to catch up. And the only thing that catches me up is doing my magic act.

THIEF (1981) dir. Michael Mann

[brandonlees]

THE ARISTOCATS 1970, dir. Wolfgang Reitherman

[thatisentertainment]

Heathers (1988) dir. Michael Lehmann

[sophsun1]

Mary Poppins (1964) dir. Robert Stevenson

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Review

Jawbreaker

Ah, Jawbreaker. The feature of my ‘Deadly Teenage Girl Drama’ shelf!

You laugh, but you aughta trust me when I say that there is nothing on this planet more debased and deadly than the acts a teen girl will commit in the sins of envy, pride, and greed aka: popularity.

This underrated classic speaks to the innate ability for most teen girls to maintain an overly saccharine and chipper composure right after committing some truly heinous acts.

Have you committed an atrocity? Do you have pesky witnesses? Why not blackmail them with Social Capital? That shit’s as good as gold in the halls of a high school.

Speaking of halls: an incredible intro on the lovely ‘Queen Bees walking down the hall in slo-mo to music’ trope. (This one has my favorite song of this trope).

If straight sex is making jock bonehead guys perform fellatio on a popsicle, I’d be willing to give that a whirl.

I won’t get into too much because this movie is a fun little ride that needs to be experienced on your own. But if you consider yourself a Heathers and a Mean Girls fan of any caliber, you need to watch this as a great midpoint of those two movies.

(I really meant everything I said about teenage girls. Watch out, man.)

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hey Van. I really think you should review I ❤️ Huckabees. I just really think you'd appreciate the quirkiness of it. let me know what you think!

Whoa dude, you’ve been really hitting up my existentialism shelf up a lot lately. You good?

Sometimes a good movie leaves you with more questions than you had when you went in. That’s the beauty of soul searching, my friend.

The questions are infinite in the blanket of existence.

Lily Tomlin channels a very wise friend I have that seemed to exist on a different plane than most of us. Just picture her caked in deer blood asking me this after a shroom trip:

There is a deep love letter to absurdism as a philosophy here. It’s all fucking ridiculous. And by ‘it’s’ I mean me, you, the world, death, love, existence, triumph, despair, fuckabees, saving people from fires. It’s all ridiculous.

But in a good way, yknow? Am I any type of coherent?

Sorry, I meditate by letting soccer balls hit my head.

[soulakuarian]

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

[moviemoods]

🎬 9 to 5 (1980)

[folditdouble]

Women in Film Challenge 2024: [100/52] Sugar & Spice, dir. Francine McDougall (USA, 2001)

Think about it. In school, they tell us, “Dreams can come true.” Right? But they don’t tell us how. Thanks to Keanu, I’ve figured it out. Money makes your dreams come true.

[sabrinacarprenter]

CROSSROADS (2002)

[peteneems]

[cinemphatic]

I don’t want your money. I want your strength. 

Heathers (1988) dir Michael Lehmann

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