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here’s a piece i published online a few years ago but that magazine is now defunct turns out.

i rarely hate films, but i think i hated this one. the only thing i liked were the outfits and how the cast wasn't all white and how it was a lesbian vigilante convent of sorts... HOWEVER it is transphobic, racist (one of the black characters gets brushed over as “opaque”), and they make love to a cop... nah thanks, but no thanks bruce la bruce. you basically took all the symbols of an actually liberated film and didn’t know what you were doing with it. very unsubstantial and a waste of time. 

beautiful cinematography and very relatable characters

was an excellent, direct, and humanizing portrayal of struggling with mental health and suicidal thoughts 

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by far more gruesome and graphic than other original films of franchises (like halloween and nightmare on elm street), but the writing and cinematography is lacking so much i didn’t care for any of the characters and the build up was totally missing. definitely was spooked and surprised by the mom tho! & why on earth is it called friday the 13th? barely a component of the film

otherwise a goofy fun horror that doesn’t pit all the main characters against each other (like the craft) and involves lots of cats.

classic by orson welles, the trial (1962), based on kafka novel of same name used size difference v effectively to convey the inaccessible and threatening quality of bureaucracy and institutions, particularly the judicial process. one thing that personally frustrated me was the portrayal of women as constant distractions (but knowing kafka this is probably him expressing his own anxieties) and the ever-present and consistent portrayal of french women in particular being sexually promiscuous and always available to offer themselves up emotionally, physically, sexually, and romantically.

i think halloween is still so far the best slasher classic (that i’ve seen yet) but nightmare on elm street definitely brought fresh ideas and an another scrappy final girl. though i found myself more scared during the scenes i didn’t see freddy krueger himself (he’s a bit goofy and intimidating?) but saw what was happening to his victims.

lipstick under my burkha by Alankrita Shrivastava shows multiple women dealing with a variety of relationship issues and embracing their multifaceted and complex desires.

tws: depiction of a queer relationship as manipulative

>>>check out this anthology of short ghost stories by Aboriginal and Australian artist and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt<<<< imdb: "Three Australian stories of the supernatural are recounted in this anthology. Rick (Jack Charles), an Aboriginal boy living near a swamp on Bribie Island, is haunted by an American solider who drowned in quicksand. Ruby (Tracey Moffatt) and her family live in a house near long-abandoned train tracks, which still carry ghostly apparitions. A landlord (Lex Marinos) has trouble evicting the tenants of an old warehouse: a couple that's been dead for years." TWs: colonialism, gentrification 

a classic, and still one of my favorite films. watership down by richard adams, directed here by martin rosen. not sure what the name of the animation team was. an animal allegory that depicts multiple kinds of societal structures.

this film by satoshi kon is probably one of the spookiest. the depiction of psychosis is very real, and the rape scene, even though it is “acting” is very triggering.

best scene: restorative justice at it’s most violent and logical conclusion when she gives a group of parents whose children were molested and harmed by a teacher the opportunity to avenge them. it’s also beautiful to see how they all care for each during and after the difficult process. 

this a queer re-writing of oedipus rex