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Dear Tarantino, Do you know what I dislike more than a ragebaiting, self-aggrandizing filmmaker who sits untouched on his high throne? A hypocritical one who has nothing to back up his claims. “I do not understand how the Japanese writer didn’t sue Suzanne Collins for every fucking thing she owns,” he said. “They just ripped off the fuckin’ book. Stupid book critics are not going to go watch a Jap

An Open Letter To Tarantino

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The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air.... Muhrdeeer. What we have here is an impossible crime, and at the center of this crime a symbol. A symbol of power and of greed. A symbol of corrupting evil. At the center of this whole kerfuffle is a ring– I mean a gem. To solve this mystery, I must employ the power of storytelling. This here case shares

Knives Out 3 Is A Lord of the Rings Murder Mystery

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Now that the calendar has tripped lazily into the early days of December, that magical time of year when frost creeps into your bones and the sun decides it is above working a full shift, I figured it might be wise to coax myself into the holiday spirit before I become a shell of a human being. December has a way of sneaking up on you. One minute you are living your life, and the next the radio is

A Very Unconventional Christmas

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*Contains mild spoilers for KAOS (2024)* I cried harder when I found out that Netflix cancelled KAOS than during my break up. A genius and diverse modern adaptation of Greek mythology inspired by Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, KAOS, created by Charlie Covell, was one of the most genuinely refreshing, original and daring watches I've had in years. In KAOS's universe, humans dedicate their whole liv

Orpheus looks back, Eurydice looks to another: How KAOS's transgender character changes the oldest love song

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I think the earliest memory I have of crashing out was in 11th grade. I did the International Baccalaureate, and for any of you approval-seeking clowns who also did it, I’m very sorry for your trauma. The program was a two-year intensive course which included six different classes, a 4,000-word essay, a couple of dozen final exams, and your will to live. It didn’t help that I was also attending on

What After the Hunt Gets Right about Elite Schools

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Disclaimer: I didn't watch everything. I still haven't seen some festival darlings like No Other Choice and It Was Just an Accident. I will see Hamnet and Marty Surpreme, but I need more time. There's no excuse for why I haven't seen Bugonia. Still, I watched a lot. This was a very good year for movies. Although there were some stinkers, I'm not here to focus on the negatives. I'm here to celebrat

My Top 10 Movies of 2025

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I am the person that unapologetically recommends films. Whether you are my best friend, my mom, or someone I just met, you WILL be getting film recommendations from me. I think the films that most people watch are awful, not worth anyone’s time, disgusting, boring, propaganda, etc. So, obviously, I am going to recommend films I deem good. This year, the film I recommended most, without a single do

Sorry, 2025

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I never turn off my pretentiousness. I may, on occasion, modulate it a bit to accommodate the situation, but it's always on. There have been times, many times actually, when not being so pretentious could have saved me a lot of embarrassment. If you could graph my life and follow my pretentiousness and my social standing, the moments of the highest in terms of the former are followed by lowest of

Festen Time with my Family

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The first Bong Joon-ho film I saw was Parasite. Fall 2019. I knew next to nothing about the film when I entered the theatre, but it changed my outlook on filmmaking. I was a high school senior who had just submitted their college applications with the intention of majoring in sociology. While I always wanted to become a filmmaker, I was experiencing a minor identity crisis. I felt creatively stagn

Rage Against The Laughter: What Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite Means to Me

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Not only was One Battle After Another my favourite film of the year — it was also the film that defined it. From illness and diagnoses to imbalanced brain chemistry, financial hardship, heartbreak, heartache, stress, and duress, 2025 was one battle after another for me. In that way, Paul Thomas Anderson’s film felt both timely and diagnostic. One Battle After Another isn’t about the revolution its

My 2025 Was One Battle After Another

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I vividly remember the first time that someone told me a story I had written made them cry. It was one of my dearest friends from high school. His mother passed away from cancer when he was just a teenager, and throughout the entire time I've known him—even up to today—, you can almost see the grief of that loss permeating his every action, like a dark veil he carries around everywhere he goes. Th

I Hadn't Cried All Year... Until I Watched 'Hamnet'

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A few months ago, I watched the K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines, which premiered this year. There's no villain to fight or evil to defeat in that series; the story merely reflects what life is like, with its good and bad moments. Because that's exactly what life is: a collection of things—experiences, people, situations, feelings, and eventualities that shape everyone's path and also everyo

The before and after of Paula's life

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Here it is folks, the most niche thing I’ve ever written. Next month, a friend of mine is hosting an anniversary screening of Dan Klein’s This is Comedy. This is Comedy is rare in that it’s delivered ironically, as a parody of comedy specials. I very much respect this idea, and I’ve tried to watch This is Comedy several times. I always end up with the same result: I laugh extremely hard for ten mi

My Favourite CollegeHumor Video

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If you love slow burn thrillers and wild reveals, then Holland is your next obsessive rewatch. Buckle up and adjust your prescription lenses before you hit play , because Holland 2025 is not your average suburban thriller…. This film is packed with nods from the director Mimi Caves favorite auteurs, and she’s not shy about it. There’s a little Hitchcock and dare I say, a dash of David Lynch in how

Mimi Cave’s Vision of Domestic Horror and The Male Gaze

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Adolescence is a brilliant display of the dangers of this bizarre wave of gender ideology that is swarming the internet. The Red Pill. This article will be a praise to the series, sure, but also a slight critique, since as a teacher I have seen how this mentality is affecting young people (specially men) and how dangerous this can be. The series opens with an operative breaking into a house, a sce

A Warning To All Parents

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As another fantastic season of Mike White's The White Lotus (his third) comes to a blistering close-- I'm once again reminded of a particularly niche-in-specificity-- cinematic-subset-genre that I often find myself largely hankering for, drawing towards and returning back to. That of which I like to call-- "Beautiful People Being Utterly Miserable, While Totally Trapped In Paradise, & Comically St

Beautiful People-- Comedically Suffering-- Karmically-Caused-- For "Two Weeks-- In Bruges-- Wichu?"