VAAZHAI (2024) dir. Mari Selvaraj
not gonna spoil it it’s just really unbelievable. always impeccable color grading in mari selvaraj films
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A New Leaf for the first time in a while. Love it
Elaine May was done dirty
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watched Mysterious Skin, a very honest and unaestheticized exploration of the impacts of csa, which it seems like a lot of people ignored and were determined to aestheticize their reactions to it if letterboxd reviews are anything to go by
i always appreciate a movie that emphasizes that trauma is common
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Saw The Holdovers with my family. I thought it was a long lost 70’s film and I thought it was Paul Giamatti’s earliest roles and then I was like “wow why would they get a guy in his 20’s made up to be an old man” then I realized the film came out in 2023 lmao
but it’s shot like it’s from 1970. There’s a scene where someone is getting something out of the trunk, and the camera is inside the car and being moved around by a person. Little things like that. I also realized they probably used CGI to make the Boston skyline look vintage.
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After ‘Drive My Car’, i had some expectations when finally sitting down to watch ‘Evil does not exist’, and unfortunately the latter has left me unimpressed, so much so that i have to restrain myself from making the obvious joke regarding the absence of a plot.
Let’s say then that i am the wrong audience for this movie, a shame but it is what it is.
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I was happy with it until the ending. But it was all kind of loose enough to get me to wonder what it could be about.
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Jingle All the Way
“i already watched this in maths class”, says eldest. well too bad, because I’ve never seen it!
bit patchy, Sinbad monologue about over-commercialisation of Christmas descends into a rant about alimony that I’m not quite sure who the intended audience is. Phil Hartman as the b-plot antagonist, shown as the bad guy for “listening to women” and “doing something special for his kid”.
highlights: extended cut has more of Arnie and Jim Belushi (almost unrecognisable)
a brief few bars of Clarence Carter as they enter the Santa warehouse
the extended cut including an impromptu acapella cover of ‘The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot’ from a group of Santas
and back to non-extended cut in time for Big Show (unrecognisable) to pulverise Arnie
other highlight was Rita Wilson delivering a fine supporting role worthy of a much better film
despite the patchiness, sticks the landing. wonderful stupid climax
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this was on heavy rotation in my house. When i saw it again I instantly recognized the wrestler Paul Wight lmao
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there’s a scene in Jungle All the Way where sinbad yells “Out of my way BOX” and it’s something me and my siblings would yell constantly
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Most horrific flash fiction since “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door …”
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Black Christmas is actually so good. I am incredibly surprised.
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The closest thing I have to a traditional holiday movie that I watch every year:
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Annual viewing of Muppet Family Christmas
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Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas… none of us ever deserved Jim Henson.
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Is that John Denver Muppet Christmas Special where he looks like Toht from Raiders of the Lost Ark worthwhile? The tie in record has an Emmett Otter track on it if I recall correctly.
I love Emmett Otter and Muppet Family Christmas.
Watched my mom’s favorite movie, Double Indemnity.
my letterboxd one line review “that’s what happens when you get mixed up with a dame”
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Finally watched One Battle After Another. It ripped but I think all the hype set my expectations exceedingly high. I should go see it on 70mm at the local rep cinema in February.
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Saw The Bad Guys 2 on the plane off someone else’s phone a row ahead of me and it was still one of the better movies I’ve seen this year. the animation is fantastic. the characters are incredibly expressive. i could go on forever. it’s one of those movies that’s so good you feel cheated that all movies can’t be that good.
contrast this to the 10 minutes i tried to watch of Black Sheep. David Spade and Chris Farley tumble around screen for an hour and a half trying to rekindle the magic of Tommy Boy.
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finally got around to watching gillo pontecorvo’s “queimada!”. beautiful movie. an instant all-timer, as expected.
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Hello everyone,
I forgot to post for a while, mostly because I forgot what email I had made this account with, and had also forgotten my password. I just watched the most recent Knives Out and while I enjoyed the first one (I haven’t seen the second one yet, but I know they are episodic in nature) I was suprised by just how good Wake Up, Dead Man was. I really liked how it covered the subject of Catholicism in the 21st century. I have my MA in religious studies, so like the way that the “culture war” has manifested in Catholicism is something I think about a lot, you know stuff like Trads n what not.
I really liked the one rat guy as the preist, from that one tennis movie. never say the tennis movie but remeber it was about a guy who looked like a mouse, and a guy who looked like a rat, and that Josh O’Conner is the rat man.
Over the Christmas holidays, I watched that movie Warfare with my dad. I thought it was uh… interesting? It wasn’t as Jingoistic as I expected, but also wasn’t really critical of the Iraq war, beyond like “man it’s a draaag that these boys are dying” I dunno it was an odd film, cause while it basically ignored the Iraqi perspective of the war, it sure does make the Navy Seals look like fools.
I hope they make a million of these. Daniel Craig seems to be so happy that he isn’t james bond anymore.
I’m gonna watch the new Criterion of Eyes Wide Shut in a little bit. I’ve actually never seen it before. Will report back if I have anything insightful to say.
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