#it's a weird arthouse movie so the acting is weird arthouse acting

[absolutebl]

any other high quality bls like itsay?🥲

Okay, to start, none of the below posts have been updated in a while so I would add these 2022-2023 offerings:

Eternal Yesterday *

The Eighth Sense

180 Degree Longitude Passes Through Us*

Moonlight Chicken

Sing My Crush*

Tokyo in April is

I Feel You Linger in the Air

ALSO, currently airing Unknown and Gray Shelter.

With regards to ITSAY I am not your huckleberry but here's what I got for ya...

And pulling from the "moody arthouse smackdoodle" list in this post about BL's dark side:

Your Name Engraved Herein (Taiwan 2020 Netflix) - this movie is fantastic but it is also seriously depressing, it’s a self acceptance journey, but if you wanna wallow in high quality acting and serious gay drama, this’ll do it. 

Goodbye Mother AKA Thua Me Con D (Vietnam 2019 Netflix) - like YNEH this is a great movie but it deals openly with homophobia, bashing, family trauma and social acceptance. 

For Love, We Can (Hong Kong 2014) - an indie movie about parental homophobia, light/dark pairing, and (of course) HIV. 

The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese AKA Kyuso wa Chizu no Yume wo Miru (Japan 2020) - obsession, cheating, breakup, reunion, then break up again, explicit. 

Pornographer movie series - AKA The Novelist, Mood Indigo, Pornographer Playback (Japan 2018-2020) emotional manipulation, cheating, obsession, seduction, May/December (age gap AKA younger/older), kink, touch of necrophilia, explicit.   

Method (Korea 2017) - May/December, actor idol pairing, that should have been everything I wanted in life but it’s more about the actor cheating on his wife and their weird “artsy” relationship and frankly, I hated this. And I don’t say that lightly. 

Itsuka no Kimi e (Japan 2007 YouTube) - okay this is basically about a college student who saves this boy from drowning and then gets embroiled in his, and his identical twin’s messed up lives. It goes very weird.

His the series AKA I Didn’t Think I Would Fall In Love (Japan 2019) - boy goes to visit his absent father ends up kinda homeless on the beach gets adopted by local family falls in love with the boy working and living with them. Lots of long drawn out glances. 

Innocent (Taiwan 2021 GaGa) - mental health, childhood trauma, actually kinda sweet. 

More on ISTAY et al here.

* are ones that I don't recommend if you have the same taste as me, but I DNF'd ITSAY so, you calearly don't have the same taste

#BLs like ITSAY #thai bl #BL recommendations #bls to watch #Lots of BL suggestions #Thai BL #Japanese BL #Korean BL

[lunar-years]

i wonder what jamie’s favourite movie is, like we know he’s seen the fault in our stars, and he doesn’t seem to like ratatouille very much. or maybe he just disapproves of sam mentioning ratatouille on a dating app idk. but then he also mentions the “three kates” (beckinsale, hudson, winslet) in the rom-communism scene, so maybe a preference for romcoms?

this is SUCH a fun question!! And I was going to say I don't have a good feel for the answer, but I thought about it over breakfast and came up with a whole thing, as one does (😂).

So, I think Jamie is generally one of those people who will watch just about anything and probably find most of them entertaining if not "good." And he is going to have very strong passionate opinions one way or another that he will voice to you during the movie (Since we know he was shouting things about the play down at the actors when Keeley took him to the theatre, I definitely think he's a talker during films lmao. And because of his total disdain for Ratatouille, I know he's very opinionated. But I also think if someone was like 'hey let's watch Ratatouille' Jamie would readily agree to it even though he hates the film, because he enjoys the opportunity to tell them during the movie exactly why he hates it.)

Jamie is my age and Fault in the Stars indicates to me that he was into all the popular YA movies of the 2010s, so I think he definitely likes like, Hunger Games, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Divergent, Marvel... all the classics hehe. The romcoms I think come from Georgie! When Georgie finally managed to get a night off work to spend with Jamie they would do film nights and curl up together by the TV. Jamie always let her pick the movie because it was a small way to make her happy, and she introduced him to all the classic romcoms :)

With Keeley I think he would happily watch reality tv with her just as readily as he'd watch whatever weird arthouse indie Film™️ she suggested to expand their cultural palate or whatever. He doesn't understand a single thing that's happening in those ones (especially if its a foreign film subtitles situation, because he can't read the screen fast enough) but it's okay because Keeley always patiently explains it to him afterward and doesn't ever make fun of him when he misses the point :)

Also, I wrote in Waterfalls that he loves the Fast and Furious franchise and I stand by that. I think a lot of like, objectively stupid and nonsensical movies are his favorites 😂 Brett apparently thinks Phil has terrible taste in movies, and I like to think Roy thinks the same about Jamie, except that it's very surface level because no matter how much Roy complains, he always ends up getting drawn in my how stupid the plots are kdngjka. And when Roy refuses to watch something Jamie and/or Keeley want to watch, Jamie gets to throw back at him, "don't act like you're better than us, Roy, I know you watched all of Lust Conquers All" and that shuts him right up 😁

Jamie never actually cares what they watch when he's with Roy and Keeley, but he nevertheless puts up a fuss about how it's his turn to pick and dramatically dive-grabs for the remote just to mess with roy hahahah.

#jamie tartt #ted lasso #asks #and a little bit of #jamiekeeley #royjamie #royjamiekeeley #:)

[eightyonekilograms]

(cc @queenlua)

I thought Poor Things was pretty good, not great. Fun 3.5/5 movie.

It's essentially genderflipped Edward Scissorhands: mad scientist builds a person, she starts off being naive (well, actually, more or less mentally disabled), then learns about the world on an adventure.

My main complaint is that it doesn't really do anything new or unexpected with this premise. The bulk of it is: she acts amusingly inappropriate because she has no concept of social norms, she doesn't understand why men dislike when she fucks random people, she gets upset when learning about poverty and suffering — three of just about the least original and interesting things you can do with this concept. But the execution of what's there is solid and entertainingly kinky, at least after the first 15 minutes when it stops trying to be a weird Expressionist arthouse film.

I know this is going to be insufferably snobby, but while it was good, I really didn't find it Best Picture nominee material, and I do think that people are so starved of quality cinema that they start throwing accolades at anything that looks sufficiently artsy even when, beneath all the pretension, it's not really doing anything very new.

[thorniest-rose]

Just blocked a girl on Twitter who was like "he needs to stop taking these weird ass roles before he ruins his career because no" under a video clip of Hoard. Like, sorry he's not playing another lovable dork? I actually think it's good for him to branch out into this kind of role to avoid type casting after the huge sensation of Eddie Munson.

Here's an excerpt of what the creator of the film had to say about Hoard: “The experience of making this film was beautiful, erotic, disgusting" and I, a woman with much better taste than the woman I blocked, am rabid to see what this movie has to offer us in Joseph Quinn content. I'm ready for erotica and grossness. In fact, I hope it inspires more dark Eddie content in this fandom.

before he "ruins his career"??? How is this going to ruin his career? Michael Fassbender played a sexual predator in the British film Fish Tank in 2009 and went on to be in the X-Men and Prometheus etc and to be nominated for an Oscar. Like this isn't going to ruin his career, if anything it's going to show how much range he has, playing a role like this after playing Eddie Munson!!! Also thank you so much for including that quote from the director, I'm honestly SO excited to see it and to see another side to Joe beyond the good-natured dork. He obviously has more to give, and I think it's incredibly silly that people feel weird about the character and the film and are trying to criticise his acting choices when I actually think it's brave to play roles like this. Plus I'd much rather see him in small, independent and arthouse films like this than the fucking MCU.

#asks #hoard

[boo-cool-robot]

Everything I Watched This Year

I have watched the most movies this year of my life, which is still so few that I can fit them all into one tumblr post, so here they are in approximately chronological order (along with TV shows). I almost exclusively watch visual media with other people, and they're often the ones picking. Favorites get an asterisk (*), and this does not include rewatches.

*Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai): Five loosely connected lonely people chase imagined versions of each other around the Hong Kong nightscape. I didn't go into a plotless arthouse film expecting it to be extremely funny, but it is. He Zhiwu (my new tumblr icon!) deserves to be up there among the deranged autistic blorbos of all time.

What We Do in the Shadows (Showrun by Paul Simms and Stefani Robinson) [First half of S4]: If you're on tumblr you probably know the premise already. I was disappointed that after S3, which felt like a build to huge shifts in the characters and status quo, S4 felt like a walkback. Don't remember much else about it other than crying laughing at the sequence where they try to get baby Colin Robinson into private school.

Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee): Everyone knows what this movie is already. It's well-made and solid, but it wasn't anything that exciting for me. I expected it to be more striking. Love the 70s home production design in that one scene though, and that kiss truly is good.

*Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes): A reporter tracks down the truth of a rock star gay affair that sparked his own queer coming of age. Dreamy, gorgeous, and I could not describe the plot scene to scene if you paid me. Just a really lovely film to experience for me, someone who had latent and unnamed transgay feelings as a teenager about the concept of "emo boys kissing."

Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma): Phantom of the Opera-inspired drama about a songwriter getting revenge on the predatory producer that ruined his life. Total delight of a campy melodrama.

Kamikaze Girls (Tetsuya Nakashima): A delinquent and fashion-obsessed scam artist strike up a lesbian-tinged unlikely friendship. This movie is bananas. Way more stylistically experimental than I'd expected--there's a sequence of the protagonist's birth, people just float offscreen sometimes, the townspeople constantly turn to the camera and advertise for the megamart they buy all their clothes from, etc. A really really surprisingly fun watch.

*Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (Hiroshi Kobayashi and Ryō Andō) [First 6 episodes only]: Optimistic young pilot of a war machine that she may have an illegal psionic connection with goes to space high school and is promptly drawn into political plotting via accidentally getting gay engaged to a corporate heiress. Highly enjoyed the parts of it I saw - great action sequences, fun character drama, and just enough political substance. Not as weird as Utena, which it's inspired by, but can be brutal where necessary. I should watch more!

*In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai): Two Shanghainese emigrants in Hong Kong discover their spouses are cheating and embark on a tragic affair of their own. God, this movie deserves every bit of praise it gets. I gasped out loud multiple times at the gorgeousness of shot compositions. Top notch acting, gorgeous colors. This tends to be a movie pitched as being about a repressed love affair, but it's also a movie about the positionality about being middle class colonial subjects and the relationships they have with the world. This gave me so much to chew on after I watched it.

Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai): Two Hong Kong expats living in Argentina have a toxic gay relationship trapped in a tiny apartment. This one felt very opaque to me, and it is allegedly an allegory for Hong Kong being returned to Chinese rule after British colonialism, which I absolutely do not have enough background to really get. Wong is a great director though, and I constantly think about the sequence of the main character seeing the abusive ex walk into the club, beat while he finishes his drink, and then he breaks his bottle off and goes in to screams.

Bound (The Wachowskis): A lesbian handyman falls for a woman married to an abusive mobster that they plot to rob. The first 45 minutes were very enjoyable as a lesbian heist film. Unfortunately, once the gunshots started the torture scenes became so stressful for me to watch that I sweated through my shirt. (I also had Covid).

#hey did you know tumblr has a character limit? #because I hit it in this post #long post

[anthroparis]

“and as alejandro has aged and gotten slightly better due to gwens influence (will elaborate if asked)”

hello! i am asking ^-^

starting this bit by reminding everyone that I like aleheather a LOT. like even back when it was not as popular on tdblr (the crime of having a woman get in the way of a yaoi ship is very dire in this fandom) and I'm sooo excited to see people being normal about them again.

anyway, one of the reasons I think alejandro originally fell for heather is because she could understand him. alejandro is a very lonely character. he's always putting on different personas to get by, he has a poor relationship with most of his family, and he's been outcasted by many of the people in his life. so, when he saw everyone hating heather, along with her obvious intelligence and skill, he saw an opportunity for a normal relationship. they are very precious to me

but, in my vision, they wouldn't really last long term. ultimately, I think it'd be heather who needs something different and alejandro would at some point figure out that there was just this gap between them that they couldn't bridge, no matter what angle he looked at it from

okay now gwen. I shouldn't even have to explain why she and alejandro would be a really good pair, they literally called her new heather for multiple seasons. she was loved, admired even, and then became wildly hated for doing something that was actually really alejandro-core when you think about it.

in all-stars, you can see that she's kind of a wreck. I actually don't hate her character derailment here because if I got called a bad person by everyone around me multiple times on international television, I'd be begging for forgiveness too. I really relate to gwen as a character. also sorry gwourtney stans but I really don't think gwen cared about courtney as much as courtney did about gwen. gothy was just acting impulsively and pretty pathetically to undo the damage she caused, again out of her internal fear of being bad. courtney was gay for her for sure but I don't think gwen ever reciprocated that. gwen likes women I just don't think she'd like courtney

anyway. alejandro is someone who embraces being shitty. I think if they did team up during all-stars, he would convince gwen to let go of her guilt and her past mistakes and embrace the present. if she can't beat them, join them. so she has a little villain arc and gets to come to terms with her morality in a much less sad way.

but likewise, I think her fear of being bad and her genuine attitude would do something in alejandro's head. cause gwen right now, and even in the past, has always been an outcast. but unlike heather, she embraces it. she doesn't need to be worshipped, she actually wants to be left alone. this is a funny mentality to alejandro, who's been making up for the abuse he's suffered by getting extra attention from others for his whole life. he's been putting up this facade of perfection and charm and it makes him kinda miserable, and it drives him to want to be understood.

and then gwen is just. you know. she's kinda gross. she uses paint for her lips and does her hair with spit. she doesn't fear being mean when she has to. and when she wants something, she gets it through a straightforward route, and not through deception. this is really interesting to him.

and I think as he continued to coach her through all-stars, they'd learn more about each other and realize they're very similar. they both probably like weird foreign arthouse movies, art history, weird literature, like they'd have a lot to talk about. and as time goes on he kinda realizes that what was missing with heather, and what gwen has, is the ability to see him for exactly how he is. not the charming, cunning villain, but a kinda lame guy who's just really pretentious. I think gwen can do that with people. just look at them and see through whatever front they're putting up. that's why she hated cody from the start, and liked duncan- didn't matter than one was externally nice, she knew he had bad intentions. didn't matter that one sucked on the outside, she knew he was alright and just acting out for attention deep down. like she knows things that other characters don't always pick up on, so I don't doubt she could do that to alejandro. probably why in canon she never fell for any of his manipulation (I don't count the eyes scene, that was just her having a moment)

anyway, I think this would eventually lead to alejandro feeling safe enough to open up a little more, and she would do the same in return. I think being able to just talk to each other as people would be mutually beneficial and they'd end up a little better because of each other

[lilaclunablossom]

Beau Is Afraid Review

Ari Aster’s newest film, the 3-hour psychological horror epic Beau Is Afraid, completely fucked my brain in a way few movies ever have.

Ari Aster has quickly become one of my very favorite directors. I first saw his movie Midsommar in a theater, and I loved it. I later decided to watch his first feature-length movie, Hereditary, and it became my favorite horror movie ever made.

Both of these movies have a healthy amount of mind-fucking, but Beau Is Afraid takes it to a whole other level. The main character, Beau, suffers from an extremely intense anxiety/paranoia disorder, possibly schizophrenia, and because of this you CANNOT tell what’s really happening in this movie, at LEAST until you’re a good 2 hours in. It’s an arthouse film, and plants yourself COMPLETELY in Beau’s shoes, taking you on an extremely confusing, yet mesmerizing, horror adventure. The movie also features more comedy than any movie Ari has made so far, with many shocking and disgusting moments being laced with irony and black humor. This type of humor doesn’t usually make me laugh on first watch (I’m too busy being traumatized), but I later found myself thinking how funny it truly was, especially a certain completely unexplainable twist closer to the end… Oh yeah, and, being a psychological horror movie, it’s FILLED with plot twists, whether you doubt how real they are or not.

The acting is also amazing, starring the incredible Joaquin Phoenix, recently famed for Joker, as Beau. He’s a perfect fit for the character, and every other actor is basically perfect too.

Beau Is Afraid is an EXTREMELY weird, confusing, scary journey. If you’re not into art films, you might not like it very much, but if you enjoy weird shit like this, it’s ABSOLUTELY a must-see.

4.5 / 5

Dunno what the fuck I just watched, but I love it

#Beau Is Afraid #Ari Aster #horror movies #horror films

[all-made-of-stardust]

Listen, I am a big fan of Wes Anderson's movies mostly bc I like the art style and the fun stories he tells. But this......this wasn't a good story. Dare I say I actually actively hate Asteroid City. Which is so cruel honestly because it has good performances and lovely directing. But the actual writing is just bad. He was basically trying to tell two stories at once with the weird framing device, and if he had stuck to ONE story I think it could have worked, but by the time the third act rolled around I felt like my brain was actively melting and I seriously considered leaving the theater entirely.

Call me traditionalist or unphilosophical or a buzzkill or whatever, but I really truly DESPISE films that actively encourage the concept of "OH WOW, THERE ISN'T ANY PAYOFF TO ANY OF THE NARRATIVES BC THERE IS NO MEANING TO LIFE ISN'T THAT WEIRD AND ZANY?????? 🤪🤪🤪" are dumb and stupid.

Like listen, I get that there can be a philosophical debate made of whether art ever truly has or needs to have "meaning" to be art. And I will actively engage in that debate, tbh! But watching a movie shove that debate down my throat when I just wanted to see a funky silly movie about aliens is just....bad. And kinda intolerable.

IDK, maybe I was just too dumb and stupid to understand the "amazingly deep metaphor that makes you think, mannnnn" but also maybe it's just because I'm sober.

2/10, had some potential, but absolutely and utterly failed to actually follow through with any of it, resulting in a ridiculous movie that felt less like an amazing discussion of the nature of art and more a massive jerkoff fest for lovers of Arthouse Surrealist Cinema™️ and no one else.

#asteroid city #wes anderson #stay tuned for more hot takes on other movies! #just kidding i usually don't give a fuck enough to share my opinion #I'm just bitter i not only wasted money on the ticket but also wasted my friends' valuable time #anyone if you like surreal 'artistic' stories about distraught filmmakers and the nature of life or whatever #but imo those types of stories need weight behind them #and this had nothing #about me

[popentertainment-moviereviews]

A GOOD PERSON (2023)

Starring Florence Pugh, Morgan Freeman, Chinaza Uche, Celeste O'Connor, Molly Shannon, Zoe Lister-Jones, Nichelle Hines, Toby Onwumere, Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, Oli Green, Alex Wolff, Brian Rojas, Ryann Redmond, Sydney Morton, Mike Menendez, Chip Hamilton, Drew Gehling, Dudney Joseph Jr., Mark Thudium, Victor Cruz, Jessie Mueller, Emilia Suárez and Anthony Cedeño.

Screenplay by Zach Braff.

Directed by Zach Braff.

Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 129 minutes. Rated R.

The title A Good Person carries a certain amount of baggage. After all, all of the characters in this well-meaning, if sometimes slightly manipulative drama, are basically good people, although they all have flaws.

I believe the specific good person in the title is supposed to be Allison (Florence Pugh), a twenty-something pharmaceutical rep who has a tragic accident which not only kills two people but ends up destroying her engagement and causing her to become addicted to Oxycontin.

I say I believe it’s supposed to be her, I guess, because the description just as easily fits Daniel (Morgan Freeman), a retired cop and ten-years-sober alcoholic whose daughter was killed in the accident, and now is struggling to care for his granddaughter.

It would also be a fitting way to refer Nathan (Chinaze Uche), Allison’s former fiancé who watched the accident not only kill his sister and brother-in-law, but also destroy the life of the woman he loves. (Allison broke off the engagement, not Nathan.)

Or it could even be Ryan (Celeste O’Connor), the granddaughter who lost her parents and now is trying to come up with the empathy to forgive the woman responsible for their death.

Like I said, they’re all good people. Good, imperfect people. Which may be the point.

A Good Person is sweet and messy and tragic and sometimes a little schmaltzy, much like life.

The film is the return to the New Jersey roots of writer/director Zach Braff, who is perhaps better known as a light comic actor (Scrubs, and more recently a ubiquitous series of T-Mobile commercials), nearly two decades after his filmmaking debut with Garden State.

Garden State has had a weird trajectory over the years. When it was originally released, it was an acclaimed arthouse hit. However, over the years a massive backlash has formed on the film, to the point that it now is pretty much mocked and despised. I come down somewhere in the middle – when it first came out, I didn’t think it was as good as so many said, but it’s also in no way the embarrassment that so many say now.

A Good Person is not likely to excite so much passion – either in the positive or the negative.

Yet, in several ways it is rather similar to the earlier film. Like that film, the female lead is “manic-pixie-dream-girl” adjacent, although one who in the long run has been cowed by tragedy and medical and psychological problems. Braff, a New Jersey native, also still does have a firm grasp on the people and places of the Garden State.

Also like Garden State the storyline pulls on the heartstrings, sometimes shamelessly.

However, the acting is rather terrific, particularly by Freeman, who is a welcome presence in one of his too few current leading roles, and Uche as perhaps the most grounded person there, who is trying to keep the fraying relationships and people around him from falling apart.

Pugh is mostly sympathetic in a much more difficult role. Sometimes you don’t totally buy her as an oxy addict, but otherwise she negotiates the bombshells that the script throws at her with confidence and aplomb.

But whoever it was who thought it was a good idea to give Molly Shannon a somewhat dramatic role as Allison’s worried mother… no. Just no.

Still, even though the audience feels slightly manipulated, A Good Person often works.

It’s a good movie. Not a great one, mind you. But like the good people it is portraying, greatness is something it can aspire to.

Jay S. Jacobs

Copyright ©2023 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: March 24, 2023.

#A Good Person #2023 #Movie Review #Florence Pugh #Jay S. Jacobs

[disappointingyet]

2022: The Big Round-up

Decision To Leave

My most anticipated film of the year. And one that could, once I’ve rewatched it, become my favourite movie of 2022. But right now Park Chan-wook’s Vertigo-esque romantic detective drama ranks as a disappointment, sabotaged by the film effectively restarting just as it seems to be ending.

Full review here

(MUBI)

Everything Everywhere All At Once

This is a good film: it’s funny, it’s surprising, it’s moving, it’s got Michelle Yeoh doing martial arts. It has maybe my favourite scene of 2022 (the rocks!). So why isn’t this one of my films of the year?

Essentially, because I’m so done with art in which the future of the world or the universe is at stake. If you’ve seen EEAAO you’ll get the irony: what the film is really concerned with is family relationships, but by the time I grasped that, I had zoned out a bit because of all the multiverse exposition. I’ll confess I enjoyed it most as an indie drama about an immigrant family running a laundromat before the weirdness fully set in.

Rein A Foutre (Zero Fucks Given)

This is two-thirds of a truly excellent movie. It stars Adele Exarchopoulos as an air-cabin crew person for a low-budget airline whose hedonistic lifestyle in assorted resorts is shown through lots of short, impressionistic scenes, reminding (in form) of Moonlight or Exhibition. Alas, then she goes back to her parents’ home in Belgium and it all becomes plodding and cliched. Shame.

(MUBI)

Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood 

Maybe the prettiest film of the year? Richard Linklater’s nostalgic look back at the Houston suburbs during the summer of the first moon landing, with animation over film, is just gorgeous. Unfortunately, the visuals are at the service of what is, to all intents and purposes, a long, particularly dull episode of The Wonder Years. Might work better with the film sound off and music on (something like Easter Everywhere by the Texan psych masters the Thirteenth Floor Elevators?)

Full review here

(Netflix)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Small sample size: I saw this with my sister, niece and nephew. Conclusion: as a popcorn movie, this fails. As an opportunity to ponder politics and the directorial hiring strategies of Marvel Studios, it’s fine.

So theory: the Marvel dudes have accepted the notion that I share that the action is the weakest element of these supposedly action movies. Hence they keep hiring directors with no experience of action and thus the perfunctory fight scenes in Wakanda Forever. Which, instead, is a story about grief and loss on the one hand and revisiting the 1960s idea of the non-aligned movement of post/anti-colonialist countries.

But if you came for entertainment, it’s a bit dull.

For a review of BP:WF star Tenoch Huerta in a Mexican slacker indie movie, go here

The Wonder

The kind of chunky prestige project that goes straight to streaming these days: heavyweight arthouse director (Sebastian Lelio), adapted from a book by a writer with a previous novel that was prime Oscar bait (Room’s Emma Donahue), of-the-moment lead (Florence Pugh) and estimable support (Toby Jones and Ciaran Hinds, working together for at least the third time). Modernity – in the form of Pugh’s Crimean War-veteran nurse – confronts superstition/faith in a1860s rural Ireland still scarred by the Famine. It’s fine, but never gets beyond the obvious. I guess you could say there’s some gender rebalancing going on in that Tom Burke’s role as the bloke is as perfunctory as too many female potential romantic interests have been in the past. The ending is a bit too tidy, too.

(Netflix)

She Said

She Said is a well-made, well-acted, well-intentioned movie about important subjects. But it’s also a film that offers plenty to nitpick about, if you were so inclined. There’s no doubt that the working moms as reporters is a useful corrective to journalism movies of the past. And I wasn’t expecting it to remind me so much of a Michael Mann flick in its look and all the one-on-ones in bars, restaurants and work canteens. But the sheer weight of exposition, especially aimed at senior members of the New York Times staff, was grating. And the two leads lack flaws. Most of all, the story doesn’t quite work in terms of building and resolving tension. 

Aftersun 

Late 1990s. Scottish father long broken-up with the mother of his daughter takes the 11-year-old on a late summer holiday to a resort in Turkey. That’s your whole premise, and that’s fine by me. In her debut, Frankie Corio is perfect as Sophie. There’s hints of Moonlight in the way that this does feel like fragments of memories, propped up by snatches of home video, and Barry Jenkins is a producer on this film. The recreation of holiday moments is terrific.

So why wasn’t I as moved by this as all the critics? Partly because I saw because I had heard it was that good and worth spending £18 to see even if clearly some of it was going to be grim, so my expectations were way too high. Partly because to me Paul Mescal – who plays the dad – is an uninteresting potatoey bloke with bad hair rather than the cause he seems to be for some folk. But mainly because many admirers talk about how subtle* it is - and I don’t think that’s accurate. It’s true the script does limit the number of times characters discuss their emotional state – but the camerawork and the soundtrack are extremely busy filling in the blanks. Most of the songs – and certainly the one in the climactic scene – could hardly be more obvious. And that rather soured me on it.

*The Canadian critic Adam Nayman – who loves the film – has what I think is a more accurate take on it: that director Charlotte Wells takes some big swings at key moments of the film. For Nayman, they connected and were emotionally devastating. But if they don’t land for you, then they can look clumsy.

(MUBI)

Sr

‘Sr’ is Robert Downey, director of underground/alternative movies from the 1960s onwards, whose fame was eclipsed by his film-star son. Jr produced and hogs screen time in this documentary, shot in elegiac b&w. There’s a handful of things the film is trying to do: summarise Sr’s colourful life and career, explore his complicated legacy to Jr (gave him his start as an actor, but also gave him his introduction to illegal substances along with an addict’s genes), allow Sr a partial chance to make a swan song, and chronicle his worsening Parkinson’s. And in the middle of all this, Covid happens.

It’s an excellent piece of filmmaking and Sr seems to have been quite a character (I’ve never seen any of his films – Paul Thomas Anderson is a mega fan, but they look a bit exhausting.) But Jr is hugely annoying and we get far too much of him.

(Netflix)

Amsterdam 

This is generally considered one of the turkeys of the year. I saw long after it had been written off, and so certainly had non-existent expectations and none of the pressure that comes with having paid to see something. So I watched and waited to groan with exasperation but never did. It’s not great but also… not terrible? It belongs to a hyper-specific micro-genre: somewhat comedic period-set neo-noirs that draw on (apparently) true conspiracies and in which race is a key story point but the movie is made by a white dude. See also: last year’s No Sudden Move, 2019’s Motherless Brooklyn and season four of Fargo (two of the stars of which have supporting roles here). It’s a mood – Pynchonesque? (add Inherent Vice to that list) that appeals more to movie folk than audiences.

Amsterdam was directed by David O Russell and a stuffed cast: Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington are your leads, then there’s Bob De Niro, Rami Malek and Anya Taylor-Joy, Michael Shannon and Mike Myers, Zoe Saldaña, Chris Rock and Timothy Olyphant, and Taylor Swift. It’s too long, obviously, and crams in a lot of stuff, like Robbie’s character single-handedly inventing surrealism. But I laughed in the right places and was rarely bored, so am mildly baffled by the total trashing this got.

(Disney +)

Barbarian

One of those movies that’s absolutely impossible to write about spoiler-free – and (of course) just writing that is a spoiler. Anyway, Barbarian is a horror movie, it’s set in Detroit, it stars Georgina Campbell (yet another Brit in Hollywood) as a woman in town for a job interview, it’s rather good and that’s all I’m going to say.

(Disney +)

Argentina 1985

On the one hand, I’m mostly not in favour of trying to explain complex historical events through the story of one person (usually one dude). And when you are using that one dude for an account of a battle against injustice that was sustained and embodied by a group of very determined mothers, that seems somewhat questionable.

On the other, there’s a lot to like and admire about this film. The always-watchable Ricardo Darín stars as Julio César Strassera, the prosecutor assigned to try the members of the Argentinian junta that had recently stepped down but were still in control of the military. His task is to establish their responsibility for the ‘dirty war’ in which thousands of people disappeared. The film attempts (and I think largely succeeds) on balancing good-humoured scenes of how the somewhat weary and middle-aged Strassera assembles a bright young team to put together the case with the harrowing testimony of survivors and relatives of victims.

(His son is super-annoying though.)

(Prime)

The Souvenir Part II

The conclusion (sort of) to Joanna Hogg’s critically adored autobiographical account of being a very posh film student in the 1980s. I wasn’t hugely taken with Part 1 – Part II was an improvement, not least because there’s more screen time for Richard Ayoade’s awesomely bitchy (but very perceptive) director character. 

Full review here

(MUBI - which also has Caprice, Hogg's actual student film starring a young Tilda Swinton)

See How They Run

Entertaining meta-murder mystery that takes place around and about the early days of The Mousetrap’s London run. Relies heavily on the charm of Saoirse Ronan as an earnest young WPC.  Very slight, plenty of fun.

(Disney +)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Did anyone think that Daniel Craig’s Foghorn Leghorn-voiced sleuth Benoit Blanc was the best thing about Knives Out? Seems improbable, but the idea apparently is to build a series of movies around him. On the evidence here, this isn’t a great idea. For a start, the all-star cast is – Janelle Monáe and a handful of very brief cameos apart – deficient in star power. We get Edward Norton as (yawn) an evil tech billionaire, Kate Hudson as a has-been model/actress and Dave Bautista as a YouTuber. The set-up: at peak early pandemic lockdown, Norton invites his chums to a no-restrictions mystery weekend on his Greek island. It’s all pretty meh. 

Like the original, the movie improves massively when it gets to the bit where it doubles back on itself. But even so, it never crawls above mediocre.

(Netflix)

#2022 movies

[seekesotsibteadmist]

IMPORTANT HEADCANONS TO CONSIDER

CAN THEY USE CHOPSTICKS: they have learned to be able to do so. took a while.

WHAT DO THEY DO WHEN THEY CAN’T SLEEP: listen to some music. compose some music. have some tea. text someone, read a book. stare at the night sky. go for a walk, haunt the woods and/or the beach at night. lay on the floor. draw. put on a movie to just casually watch.

WHAT WOULD THEY IMPULSE BUY AT THE GROCERY STORE: interesting looking fruit. odd snacks from time to time. maybe a refreshing drink of they were in the mood for it.

WHAT ORDER DO THEY WASH THINGS IN THE SHOWER: washes their hair first. and then the face, and then goes down from there -  chest, back, arms, stomach, etc,  the rest of the body goes from there. they do wash their legs.

WHAT’S THEIR COFFEE ORDER: one of those refresher things. usally a mocha or a coffee with some cream in there. if they are in a rough mood they’ve have it black.

WHAT SORT OF APPS WOULD THEY HAVE ON THEIR SMARTPHONE: encrypted texting app, there are a few music apps to find independent music on, a notes app, a few relaxing puzzle games, nature facts app, a book reading app

HOW DO THEY ACT AROUND CHILDREN: saima is really good as a teacher of kids, as a babysitter, as a neighbor to look after kids. they are patient and open to kids behavior while learning how to draw varying lines when the situation calls for it. they do enjoy spending time looking after kids when they can.

WHAT WOULD THEY WATCH ON TV WHEN THEY’RE BORED AND NOTHING THEY REALLY LIKE IS ON: weird arthouse movies. or weird horror movies. or scifi. a lot of low budget shenanigans.

tagged by: @masteredlegacy

tagging: you

#headcanon

[jesuisgourde]

I’m writing the notes for the transcription and there are a few pages where Peter just copied a bunch of quotes from Liquid Sky so I’m writing a note on the film and I’m realizing that the description of the movie just sounds really weird and I just want to put “It’s such a good movie! Watch it! It’s great!” at the end of the note but I won’t.

#it is so good #it's a weird arthouse movie so the acting is weird arthouse acting #but the visuals are SO COOL #and the idea of the film is really interesting #and the soundtrack is like a cheerful 80s version of the tetsuo the iron man soundtrack #I just love Liquid Sky #I got so excited when I was reading the journals and realized he was quoting the film

[absolutebl]

I’m comfort re watching Together With Me and after finding it trashy 6 months ago when I first watched it - I’m now loving it! I think I’ve watched so many Thai BLs now that I’ve acclimatised to them… is there anything in BLs that you used to find too much but you now love?

this is such a fan ask, thank you.

It's kinda crazy to think about what I loved unreasonably at the beginning and absolutely could not take at the same time.

Classic examples for me are:

Love By Chance which was originally my favorite BL. I must have rewatched AePete a hundred times after it dropped to YouTube. I still love it, but no where near as much as I did when my watched-list was short and my BL eye untrained.

On the flip side, it took me about 6 tries to watch Long Time No See. I have no idea why, because it's WONDERFUL, but I couldn't get into it at the beginning.

I was really really driven by performance at the start so if the acting was in any way wooden or the pacing too slow I checked out (this eliminated a lot of early Vietnamese stuff and Thai pulps).

10 BLs That I Could Not Stand... Originally

But now actually really enjoy or even love!

OMG SO MANY, BUT MY TOP 10 MAY SHOCK YOU.

1. To My Star (Korea) 

I didn't hate TMS on my first watch but I didn't actually like it much either. Perhaps because it was early KBL for me? KBL has a style that I still needed to grow into after all that Thai BL, and by TMS I just hadn't yet. Also I think most KBL is served by Viki's movie overmakes. I think TMS started out at about a 7/10 for me after the serialized first watch and then quickly became one of my few 10/10 after about 4 rewatches. Wish You was very similar, although it never rose as high. Tasty Florida might be on the same trajectory. (Color Rush and Light on Me I loved from the start. Mr. Heart and Where Your Eyes Linger I have never managed to warm to).

2. His the Movie (Japan) 

I hesitate to call His BL but it’s often discussed as part of this genre. Because I watched Restart first (and that is more BL-ish) and because His deals with such mature themes, I took forever to warm to it. It’s stunning and beautifully acted and of Japan’s stylish arthouse gay dramas, probubly one of the best, but that may just be because I have a mad crush on Shun. 

3. Life Love On the Line (Japan) 

This is another one that I watched in installments and then when I saw the directors cut movie really finally loved. Unlike His it’s a lot more BL, but I always struggle with a long tortured break up sequences in my romances. Unlike most Kdramas at least this one is treated with integrity, but it took the director’s cut movie version to bring the characters back together for long enough, pacing wise, for me to not be mad about it. There are bits of this drama I still don’t quite get, e.g. Yuki’s out of character blushing maiden behavior around sex(?!). But it’s now definitely a favorite of mine from Japan. And the little nod to giving HaoTing & XiGu from H3MODC an HEA when Taiwan didn’t is a delicious cherry on top. (Although the dig is a bit rich, coming from Japan.) 

4. Addicted Heroin (China) 

Oh boy did I not get this BL at the beginning. I didn’t understand what BL was like from China so I didn’t get how ground breaking it was. I did know what had been done to it, so I cut it slack over the ending (which I wouldn’t have otherwise). Took me three rewatches to get on board and now this is, without question, my favorite BL that Mainland China has ever produced. 

5. HIStory Obsessed (Taiwan) 

It was too short, too weird, and so so confusing when I first watched it. It is essentially a pastiche of tropes held together by genre conventions and expectations - if you don’t know them already, you’ll be awfully confused. After watching BL from China and Japan, looping back to this one from Taiwan caused it to climb the ranks. It will never be my favorite but the chemistry is on point, and now I like it for its brevity, too. 

Note: I now know what to expect from Taiwan, and it’s become my favorite BL producing country partly for reasons demonstrated in this BL. I like it’s mix of traditional yaoi influence and a queer lens, and I like that Taiwan still surprises me sometimes 

(See You After Quarantine? was SO UNEXPECTEDLY CHARMING). 

6. Stage of Love (Vietnam) 

I dnf’ed this the first time I tried. it was an early V-BL for me and I just could not take the acting style particularly in a show about a play. After a few more BLs came from this country and I got a feel for the style, I went back and rewatched it and liked it a lot more. Still not a favorite, but I get it now. 

7. 2gether

Oh boy I think I tried to watch this 4 times before i finally made it past the first 3 episodes? I HATE HATE HATE the character of Green. He’s grossly overacted, grates on the ears, is not funny (to me), buffoonish, cartoonish, feminized gay, AND punching down humor. I needed to skip though his parts and get to a place where Wat actually starts putting on moves. Then I liked this show a lot more. 

When Still 2gether came out I liked it a lot less, again. 

Then liked it more. 

Now I am somewhere in the middle. 

It’s been a rollercoaster. But it will never be for me what it is for those BL fans who entered the genre because of it. I have no nostalgia for 2g (that would be Love Sick). 

8. My Engineer 

I don’t like BohnDuen and they dominate the first episodes so I had to make it to RamKing before I enjoyed this at all. Took me a couple tries. Now I love it for them, but that’s pretty much it. 

9. My Tee

Another one that I had to keep trying to make it through. Honestly, it’s still pants, but I like it better than I did the first time. I think I have only rewatched it once or twice, that ending... 

10. Puppy Honey

Having to put up with stupid hets is a big buy in for PickRome. Especially in season one when they are definitely side dishes. Plus OffGun’s chemistry is off in this series (compared to where they get to). But I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. It took me a while to get there, tho. 

(source)

#Thai BL #PickRome #Puppy Honey #my tee #cause you're my boy #gmmtv #My Engineer #ramking #Still 2gether #2gether #vietnamese bl #Stage of Love #taiwanese bl #HIStory Obsessed #cinese bl #addicted web series #Addicted Heroin #life love on the line #japanese bl #His the movie #Korean BL #To My Star #Long Time No See #Love By Chance #aepete

[oldshrewsburyian]

@emilymuaddib replied to this post about “A Field In England”:

ok I watched this a couple years ago and 100% did NOT understand it, can anyone explain it? I just didn't get it at allllll

I am far from sure that I can explain this film within the meaning of the act. However! I am 100% sure that I cannot attempt to do so within the character limit of the reply. So, here’s the thing. I loved this film partly because it is inexplicable; and I loved it also as a person who knows things [to the degree of ‘has taken relevant graduate-level coursework’] about early modern astrology, alchemy, and politics, and how these were interconnected in 17th-century England. Oh, also venereal disease and medical theory ditto.

Our hapless and poignantly hilarious protagonist is an alchemist and astrologer. He also may or may not have the power to speak with and conjure the dead. He is certainly employed by at least one political faction and possibly also a wizard on the presumption that he does. He’s referred to as a homunculus by one man, and then tortured by another in attempts to actually turn him into one (yikes.) He has visions of a malignant planet, which may govern his fortunes or the fortunes of the men he’s with or the fortunes of England itself (not implausible.) Crucially, the film takes place in a time of apocalyptic dread, when not only the end of the (divinely-ordained) political order but the end of time itself was a distinct possibility.

Other weird and interesting references:

An Aztec scrying mirror (and thus European colonialism in the Americas)

Hugh O’Neill (? and thus English colonialism in Ireland)

“a pot of ale and safety” (Henry V my beloved, and thus Shakespeare and the always-already contested idea of England as a place of peace)

Religion and the Decline of Magic (tl;dr: it’s complicated)

My personal theory is that the field itself is both inspiring men to death and resurrecting them, possibly; why else would the provocatively-named Friend rise “more times than fucking Lazarus”? The land itself is definitely magic, and I tend to read the early emphasis on cannon and shot vs. the later visual focus on grass, soil, and mushrooms as a commentary on early modern industrialization.

In conclusion, I have no idea what it’s like to watch movies as a normal person, I loved this movie, I miss living in a city with an arthouse cinema, the end.

#a field in england #asks and answers #(sort of) #emilymuaddib #folk horror #any other theories?? #i felt a bit bad for laughing at the medical diagnosis scene #but also #i absolutely lost it

[scenics]

Honestly, though, I’ve seen the og Bungee Jumping movie and it is fucking weird, but its faults could have largely been sorted with a smart screenwritter in charge. A couple of extra scenes here and there (which would have been possible, considering it was getting turned into a drama with plenty extra screentime), a reworking of the general structure (perhaps a change of ending too lmao), and it could have turned into a sort of arthouse drama hybrid that condemned both homophobia AND the weird ass age gap/power imbalance.

Plus the role itself was interesting, in terms of showcasing acting range: Jaehyun would have been playing a character that is actually two characters, with an age and gender transformation within the same body at one point. It would have certainly showcased his talent, if he has any and managed to pull it off. Very different from the usual silly romantic dramas idols get typecasted into.

Then again, this is Korean tv, and I have absolutely no faith they would have managed to rework the script into a better version of itself, so it’s probably for the best that it got axed. We were probably just going to get an extended version of the original, or they might have even managed to make it worse with all the extra time 😵‍💫

i think most kdrama writers aren’t super good at their job (or maybe they are), they always fall into the same tropes + plotlines. in general kdramas are just glorified soap operas disguised as legit dramas that are really borderline cw dramas. i’ve watched too many of them and i believe that every good kdrama writer (there's not many of them) eventually has to give into studio (even audience) demands. i understand your wish for jaehyun’s drama but sk is NOT at a stage where age gaps+homophobia are being openly criticized in mass media. as for jaehyun.......i know you want to believe the best in him (i do too), but i know he took this role on (personally chose it, was EXCITED about it) because he's a very unrealistic overshooting romantic. an out of this world absurd romantic. yes this was a very dynamic role for him but i've looked at his movie+media recommendations and that's really all i need to know about his taste.

#asks #jaehyun has not watched one true arthouse film #being SERIOUS i dont think he Reads either #he's not jeremy strong referencing raskolnikov in the new yorker #he's kendall roy rapping L to the OG

[souvenirsofsurgery]

monty’s horror movie list

no one follows me for this but i’m back in my horror movie obsession era so here we go. some of them are good, some of them are bad (but I love them), and some of them are kind of unacceptable, like, morally tbh, I’m sorry

anyway, in no particular order:

mother!: I just watched this one today so it’s on my mind. get ready to be stressed out by deeply uncomfortable social situations for like, the first hour and a half and then genuinely disturbed for the last twenty minutes. i finished this and then sat in my room mouthing “what the fuck, what the fuck”. v good, 10/10

Orphan: What if you adopted a kid but they sucked?

Absentia: I was really impressed, cause this was like a low-budget, crowd funded movie but it’s so so good. This one is about a woman whose husband went missing years ago, a creepy tunnel, and family relationships. V quiet and sad

Possum: Not very much happens in this movie for a long time but the atmosphere is so good, and it’s genuinely creepy. The ending also made me so uncomfortable I almost couldn’t watch it, so there’s that

The Wolf House: Incredible unsettling stop-motion animation, and I’m a sucker for good animation. Makes more sense if you know a little Chilean history, but it’s interesting even without that context

Amityville: It’s About Time: Jumping right from that foreign arthouse film into cheesy schlock, what if a clock made people evil and fucked up?

Hell House LLC: More! Schlock! This is a fake documentary/found footage movie about people trying to make a haunted house in an old hotel... but what if it was haunted for real??

Host (the 2020 shudder original): Unfriended if it was good

Hereditary: Made me sad :( This was one of the first movies to genuinely scare me in a while, and my sister-in-law won’t even let anyone talk to her about it. The story about a family dealing with grief and complicated relationships is also just so interesting to me, this one’s in my top 10

Anything for Jackson: Reverse possession movie: they try to put a spirit IN someone! Hell yeah. So many good, weird ghosts in here, I love some good, weird ghosts

13 Ghosts: (the early 2000s remake) Speaking of good weird ghosts. What if your estranged uncle died and left you a house but there was a ghost jail in the basement? I just rewatched this movie with my little brother and remembered how much I love it. Very schlocky, Matthew Lillard’s acting is off the fucking walls and I love it, why does he act like that??

Kindred: One of the only “is it in her head, or is it real?” movies where I actually really wasn’t sure. It’s about a woman whose husband dies right before she’s about to give birth, so she ends up staying with his family and slowly starts to question their motives

Parents: What if you were just a little kid and you started to suspect your parents were eating people?

Basket Case: I’m not crying over a B movie, I’m not crying over a B movie. In this one, two conjoined twins are surgically separated against their wills, with one of them getting thrown in the trash. As adults, they start hunting down the doctors who did it to them

The Poughkeepsie Tapes: Very depressing fake documentary about a serial killer. Just fucked up and sad

The Taking of Deborah Logan: One of the few found footage movies that I think is actually good. A small documentary crew goes to film a woman and her aging mother who’s suffering from dementia, but they start to think that... huh, maybe this is something a little worse than dementia...

Ju-On: The Grudge (the original Japanese one): this movie just freaks me out, I don’t like how Kayako moves around, I don’t like the sounds she makes, and I don’t like her weird little son

The Ring (the American remake): I saw this movie when I was like 8 bc someone recorded it over the Willy Wonka VHS I’d gotten from the thrift store, and I’ve been fucked up ever since. In it, a woman sees a cursed tape that will make you die in seven days, and has to try and figure out how to save herself before then. GREAT atmosphere, very creepy

Sadako Vs Kayako: What if the girl from the Grudge and the girl from the Ring fought each other? Hell yeah. Plus, love that a ghost hunter comes to help with the situation and he’s got a random mean little girl with him. People are like “why is she here?” and he’s just like “she’s my associate” okay?? Where did she come from??? I’m obsessed with this movie

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A classic. Rancid, nasty atmosphere, just feels gross, 10/10 

Society: Rich people suck so so bad and are very fucked up

House of 1000 Corpses: I love this movie and I’m sorry, its just some disgusting, campy fun. Like, what if your car broke down the night before halloween and ended up in a house with some terrible (but very entertaining) people?

Oculus: The idea of being a little kid, stuck in the house while your parents are slowly losing it, or potentially being possessed by something evil, is really scary to me. This movie does it so well. It moves back and forth from the main characters going through that in their childhoods, to them as adults, back in the house where it happened, and it’s so so good

Hellraiser: You tell me it’s about the blurry line between pleasure and pain and I watch it. The designs for the cenobites are so good. I like this first one a lot, but I also really enjoy the second one bc the torture dimension looks like MC Escher designed it and it’s sick as hell

The Others: This is one of my favorite, like, classic haunted house kind of movie. A mother keeps her kids inside an old mansion, with all the curtains drawn, because they have an illness that means they can’t go in the sunlight. Very, very creepy

The Blair Witch Project: This one just feels so real, I’ve never seen another found footage movie that reached this level. The actors knocked it out of the park, how am I so freaked out just by a couple of people wandering around the woods? It’s the blueprint, honestly

A Nightmare on Elm Street: You guys know this one, he gets you in your dreams! Probably my favorite of the classic slashers, I love some good old practical effects. my brother actually just bought me the WHOLE box set for my birthday so I’m gonna start working though the ones I haven’t seen yet 

Jennifer’s Body: What if your best friend, who you have a very homoerotic relationship with, started eating dudes? Iconic. No, but seriously, this movie has a lot more going on than you might think 

House of Wax (the 2000s remake): Bad, but so good. It’s really got that uncanny valley thing going on, love that fucked up wax museum

Ichi the Killer: Pretty unacceptable, I can’t in good conscience tell you to watch this movie, but it’s definitely an experience. Very very very violent, like super violent, but in the wildest fucking ways. Basically, what if you were a masochistic Yakuza member with a weird joker mouth and you just wanted a sadistic vigilante to beat the absolute shit out of you? Anyway, I think there’s something wrong with Takashi Miike and probably also me

Black Christmas: This is one of the og og slashers. It’s about girls getting killed in a sorority house, but surprisingly it’s like, not really an exploitation film, and I really like the characters. Good, unsettling killer, too

The Baby: WEIRD. Weird and uncomfortable. I’m not trying to kink shame anyone when I say this, but it’s probably definitely a fetish thing. In it, a social worker takes on the case of a family with an adult son who they’re claiming has the mind of a baby. This one’s probably kind of unacceptable too, to be honest with you

#horror #horror movies #horror movie recs