kevin
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Holy shit the captcha when you put up a review of Bugonia on @letterboxd.social (labeled graphic for spoilers)
November 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Holy shit the captcha when you put up a review of Bugonia on @letterboxd.social (labeled graphic for spoilers)
The new series Asura from Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters, Monster) is on Netflix with zero promotion! A story set in 1979 of four adult sisters discovering their elderly father’s affair, not only it is engaging but also shot in such gorgeous colors and warm urban landscape. More people should see it!
January 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The new series Asura from Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters, Monster) is on Netflix with zero promotion! A story set in 1979 of four adult sisters discovering their elderly father’s affair, not only it is engaging but also shot in such gorgeous colors and warm urban landscape. More people should see it!
Lots of amazing things can be said about Hirokazu Koreeda’s new family drama series Asura on Netflix but on the top of the list is its banging intro 📽️ #filmsky
January 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Lots of amazing things can be said about Hirokazu Koreeda’s new family drama series Asura on Netflix but on the top of the list is its banging intro 📽️ #filmsky
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,238,836!
September 18, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,238,836!
Borderless Fog / Kabut Berduri (2024): I didn’t know southern gothic could be made Indonesian, but this film fits the bill perfecly. Peatlands, mystical beings, indigenous struggle, corrupt law enforcement, gruesome murders… True Detective on our own waterland!! (Tanah air) ☆☆☆☆★
August 17, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Borderless Fog / Kabut Berduri (2024): I didn’t know southern gothic could be made Indonesian, but this film fits the bill perfecly. Peatlands, mystical beings, indigenous struggle, corrupt law enforcement, gruesome murders… True Detective on our own waterland!! (Tanah air) ☆☆☆☆★
You can always notice when Joko Anwar has his hands on in Joko Anwar’s Nightmares and Daydreams (2024) because it’s often the worst part of the series, particularly the pseudo-old money Jakartans and the jarring demons. His collaborators tend to be the ones making this still worth watching. ☆☆☆★★
August 17, 2024 at 4:51 PM
You can always notice when Joko Anwar has his hands on in Joko Anwar’s Nightmares and Daydreams (2024) because it’s often the worst part of the series, particularly the pseudo-old money Jakartans and the jarring demons. His collaborators tend to be the ones making this still worth watching. ☆☆☆★★
Duolingo is dipping its toes into colonial reparation
July 25, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Duolingo is dipping its toes into colonial reparation
Aurora borealis? At this time of the year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within my backyard?!
May 10, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Aurora borealis? At this time of the year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within my backyard?!
La Chimera (2023): My first Rohrbacher and it is admirable how her confidence to her craft colors the film throughout. Obviously a story on a dowser-reliant tomb raider gang in 1980s Italy is gonna be charming, adding a dash of archaeological saudade to the Etruscan past takes a real talent. ☆☆☆☆☆
May 5, 2024 at 11:37 AM
La Chimera (2023): My first Rohrbacher and it is admirable how her confidence to her craft colors the film throughout. Obviously a story on a dowser-reliant tomb raider gang in 1980s Italy is gonna be charming, adding a dash of archaeological saudade to the Etruscan past takes a real talent. ☆☆☆☆☆
Monkey Man (2024): Global South John WIck (Dev Patel certainly didn't shy away from the reference). If John Wick exists in a fantastical trigger-happy vacuum, Monkey Man grabs class struggle, police oppression, land rights, and trans rights to make the fight scenes worth, um, fighting for. ☆☆☆☆★
May 2, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Monkey Man (2024): Global South John WIck (Dev Patel certainly didn't shy away from the reference). If John Wick exists in a fantastical trigger-happy vacuum, Monkey Man grabs class struggle, police oppression, land rights, and trans rights to make the fight scenes worth, um, fighting for. ☆☆☆☆★
The Taste of Things (2023): Leave it to Tran Anh Hung to create a food film so hearty, so lush, so simmering, so full of love. I think this will stay with me for a while. Don't watch on an empty stomach. ☆☆☆☆★
May 2, 2024 at 11:55 AM
The Taste of Things (2023): Leave it to Tran Anh Hung to create a food film so hearty, so lush, so simmering, so full of love. I think this will stay with me for a while. Don't watch on an empty stomach. ☆☆☆☆★
Evil Does Not Exist (2023): The first time I watched it at Studio/K the fire alarm rang during the presentation scene until the screening was cancelled... now that I actually watched all of it the fire alarm would better fit that ending instead of the ethereal Eiko Ishibashi score ☆☆☆★★
May 2, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Evil Does Not Exist (2023): The first time I watched it at Studio/K the fire alarm rang during the presentation scene until the screening was cancelled... now that I actually watched all of it the fire alarm would better fit that ending instead of the ethereal Eiko Ishibashi score ☆☆☆★★
The Gentlemen S1 (2024): There’s a line between style and sensibility when it comes to crime capers, and here you can clearly see the hands of Guy Ritchie in making the series lean towards the former without being ridiculous. Theo James and Kaya Scodelario’s chemistry needs to pay off please? ☆☆☆☆★
April 28, 2024 at 2:55 PM
The Gentlemen S1 (2024): There’s a line between style and sensibility when it comes to crime capers, and here you can clearly see the hands of Guy Ritchie in making the series lean towards the former without being ridiculous. Theo James and Kaya Scodelario’s chemistry needs to pay off please? ☆☆☆☆★
Blue Giant (2023): Films about musicians always become better when a significant duration is dedicated to training and Blue Giant is particularly good in highlighting one character who literally learns from zero. Now I wanna learn to to hit those sick ass jazz beats too. ☆☆☆☆★
April 28, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Blue Giant (2023): Films about musicians always become better when a significant duration is dedicated to training and Blue Giant is particularly good in highlighting one character who literally learns from zero. Now I wanna learn to to hit those sick ass jazz beats too. ☆☆☆☆★
Budi Pekerti (2023): That video at the center of the film's social media storm is nowhere near outrage-worthy. The characters are just mouthpieces of whatever commentary of online society the film want to sound out. A good thing the serene, contemplative final act becomes its saving grace. ☆☆☆★★
April 20, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Budi Pekerti (2023): That video at the center of the film's social media storm is nowhere near outrage-worthy. The characters are just mouthpieces of whatever commentary of online society the film want to sound out. A good thing the serene, contemplative final act becomes its saving grace. ☆☆☆★★
Unhappy Together (2022): Good shorts tell so much in so little… this one tells so little in so little. Hey, as long as it looks WKW-esque, right? ☆☆★★★
April 2, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Unhappy Together (2022): Good shorts tell so much in so little… this one tells so little in so little. Hey, as long as it looks WKW-esque, right? ☆☆★★★
Poor Things (2023): The story might be trite as hell and its moral dubious, but you can’t say Emma Stone didn’t act her very best here and the set design isn’t otherwordly. For once the Oscars they won were all well deserved. ☆☆☆☆★
April 2, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Poor Things (2023): The story might be trite as hell and its moral dubious, but you can’t say Emma Stone didn’t act her very best here and the set design isn’t otherwordly. For once the Oscars they won were all well deserved. ☆☆☆☆★
24 Jam Bersama Gaspar (2023): Despite having the most impressive dystopian Indonesia set to date, this is a detective film that is never sure about what it’s searching for. Like the lackluster car chase, it’s a film with unfulfilled potential that’s satisfied with its own mediocrity. ☆☆★★★
April 2, 2024 at 1:33 PM
24 Jam Bersama Gaspar (2023): Despite having the most impressive dystopian Indonesia set to date, this is a detective film that is never sure about what it’s searching for. Like the lackluster car chase, it’s a film with unfulfilled potential that’s satisfied with its own mediocrity. ☆☆★★★
The Zone of Interest (2023): The grandma was the only person who didn’t treat the literal screams of despair in the air as if they were chirping crickets. Incredible depiction of dehumanization by banality. ☆☆☆☆★
April 2, 2024 at 1:29 PM
The Zone of Interest (2023): The grandma was the only person who didn’t treat the literal screams of despair in the air as if they were chirping crickets. Incredible depiction of dehumanization by banality. ☆☆☆☆★
just a round white cat
March 8, 2024 at 4:08 PM
just a round white cat
#DunePartTwo (2024): Stilgar repeatedly screaming "Mahdi" to Paul's face as a result of Bene Gesserit thousand-year scheming will cause anti-imperialist (ex)muslims to either really hate or really love this film — for me, I absolutely love the experience. ☆☆☆☆☆
March 1, 2024 at 7:38 PM
#DunePartTwo (2024): Stilgar repeatedly screaming "Mahdi" to Paul's face as a result of Bene Gesserit thousand-year scheming will cause anti-imperialist (ex)muslims to either really hate or really love this film — for me, I absolutely love the experience. ☆☆☆☆☆
All of Us Strangers (2023): I learned that it was adapted from a Japanese novel (made sense) but they removed the life-energy-sucking element from it (sad) yet this was a rollercoaster watch that mostly went downhill in a good way. Prepare to cry a lot. ☆☆☆☆★
March 1, 2024 at 7:28 PM
All of Us Strangers (2023): I learned that it was adapted from a Japanese novel (made sense) but they removed the life-energy-sucking element from it (sad) yet this was a rollercoaster watch that mostly went downhill in a good way. Prepare to cry a lot. ☆☆☆☆★
Anyone But You (2023): Romcom needs to be this stupid. Almost perfect for background viewing when you are cooking except for the fact that Sydney Sweeney is distractingly hot. Do we need more of this? Maybe not, but occasionally would be nice. ☆☆☆★★
March 1, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Anyone But You (2023): Romcom needs to be this stupid. Almost perfect for background viewing when you are cooking except for the fact that Sydney Sweeney is distractingly hot. Do we need more of this? Maybe not, but occasionally would be nice. ☆☆☆★★
Letters from Marusia (1975): Based on a real massacre of miners in a Chilean town in 1925, of course all of the workers were killed by the army, yet I can't help but admire when they wrapped dynamite on their bodies and laughed at the scared soldiers, when not fearing death makes them free... ☆☆☆☆★
March 1, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Letters from Marusia (1975): Based on a real massacre of miners in a Chilean town in 1925, of course all of the workers were killed by the army, yet I can't help but admire when they wrapped dynamite on their bodies and laughed at the scared soldiers, when not fearing death makes them free... ☆☆☆☆★
#LOTR 1-3 extended edition (2001-03): In creating an epic of such scale, Peter Jackson shows admirable cohesion in both worldbuilding and narration, Middle-Earth truly feels like a world beyond Earth and Frodo's degradation to the ring grounds the story for us mere humans to enjoy. ☆☆☆☆★
March 1, 2024 at 6:01 PM
#LOTR 1-3 extended edition (2001-03): In creating an epic of such scale, Peter Jackson shows admirable cohesion in both worldbuilding and narration, Middle-Earth truly feels like a world beyond Earth and Frodo's degradation to the ring grounds the story for us mere humans to enjoy. ☆☆☆☆★