8-year-old me: Draco Malfoy
10-year-old me: Edward Cullen
13-year-old me: Prince Caspian from Narnia
19-year-old me: Thomas Shelby
22-year-old me, an intellect: Jef Costello 💦💦😋😍
8-year-old me: Draco Malfoy
10-year-old me: Edward Cullen
13-year-old me: Prince Caspian from Narnia
19-year-old me: Thomas Shelby
22-year-old me, an intellect: Jef Costello 💦💦😋😍
Quiet dramas circling relationships between parent and child have always managed to hold a special place in my heart—films such as The Florida Project (2017) and Petite Maman (2021). I find myself seldom resonating with films nowadays, which is why it was a delightful (and heartbreaking) surprise to chance upon one of the best ones of 2022.
Aftersun will gently lead you through a current of parental anxiety masked as a coming-of-age. The sound design, acting, and cinematography is nothing short…
I wish Gene Kelly was real.
If movies could be corporeal entities, I'd rather be Singin' in the Rain than a human being.
Quick story before my thoughts on the film.
I have a childhood friend who constantly brags on his social media about all the girls he brings home and what a “player” he is. Lately, he posted a Facebook story saying “Yes, I’m a playboy. But I have respect for women. That's why I can always take a NO” followed by the words “NoToRape," "AttractTheRightMen," and "Surround yourself with good guys.”
It’s these stupid fucking microaggressions that make movies…
Oh fuck.
I wasn’t ready for this. During the last sequence of the film, I was bawling my eyes out.
Cinema Paradiso is nostalgia incarnate. It is about friendship, love, beauty, art, and above all, cinema. There is nothing left to be said that hasn’t been said about this movie before. If I praise this film, it will only be added upon the thousands, millions of voices that have sung admiration for Tornatore’s well-crafted Italian classic.
During the…
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