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She’s with the mole rats now, mole rats ruined her life

He/him
Fuck, now I can’t unsee this
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Saw Steven Soderbergh’s PRESENCE today and except for a climax that veers into After School Special territory, what a movie. Too many thoughts about it, too many thoughts
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Wow, apparently ACAB includes Poirot
November 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Jesus: One of you will betray me, and one of you will deny me

The disciples:
October 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Wow what a deeply misleading title
October 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
“Throughout history, cheap punks have made themselves leaders! Regardless of their titles, they were still cheap punks!”
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Wrong Marlon requests that you draw her like one of your French girls
September 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I don’t know, I just think it’s neat
September 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It’s not a terribly good movie. It’s extremely, cheaply derivative. Its plot feels slapped together in the moment. The effects are less than subtle.

But for all that, it is a weirdly entertaining movie. In its best moments, it’s visually striking, and the story is kinda engaging
September 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
What this movie *is* … is THE RING

We’ve got a mysterious well, a curse you can avoid by passing it on to others, a journalist who must decode image clues

and in case The Ring wasn’t enough, the station also has A GRUDGE on it

I am not kidding
September 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
There’s a running theme of cold indifference to others—from journalists, publishers, police detectives, embalmers—as though everyone in the world is immunized against empathy by their careers

Because this isn’t a very good movie, that theme is not explored, nor does it bear fruit in the narrative
September 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The actual plot of THE GHOST STATION involves a magazine journalist who just got in trouble for outing a trans woman (accidentally) because she posted pictures of her online as “The New Summer It Girl” w/out clearing consent. Desperate for a new story, she investigates a death at a train station
September 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Look before I can tell you about DEAD WAVES I have to tell you about THE GHOST STATION and it is eating me up inside

OKAY so THE GHOST STATION is a Korean horror film about a train station where people keep dying, and the witnesses keep seeing little kids that aren’t there
September 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The way she raises her eyebrows at him, IDK
September 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
It was not, in fact, a ghost.

To find out what it was, you should watch the movie.

Dead animal warning, though, there’s some dead animals.
September 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Lots of trees, can’t go wrong with trees
September 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It’s beautifully shot, totally worth watching, you should watch it
September 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I mean I think I have plenary to say about it, but I don’t want to. Somebody else has already said it all better.

It’s good, go watch it.
September 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Wait, did I not do a thread about HELLBENDER / H6LLB6ND6R?

That’s because I didn’t want too.

I watched HELLBENDER by the Adam’s Family last week. It was good. I have like nothing else to say about it, it was just good
September 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Also: CAT!
September 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The Serpent’s Path is one of KK’s more obscure movies—never released in the US. It reminded me a lot of his latest film, CLOUD: a buddy film where friendship is inherently destructive. Significantly, prior to CLOUD, KK *remade* The Serpent’s Path (I haven’t watched that one yet tho)
September 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
And the thing is, the mathematician partner is played by legendary actor Sho Aikawa, still pretty young at this point, looking like a weird hybrid of Chow Yun Fat and Shah Rukh Khan

It is *weird* watching playing a relatively restrained character and not in a Takashi Miike movie, but weird good
September 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The math subplot, with Japanese legend Sho Aikawa tutoring a classroom of students of all ages, especially a young girl prodigy, feels like KK explaining the message of his movie in the most unclear terms, like, what

But I mean that as a compliment. It’s very Herzog.
September 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Most of the movie takes place in an abandoned factory, which makes sense because you know Kurosawa Kiyoshi loves his abandoned factories
September 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Also there’s this lady, “The cripple,” who is running around with a fuckin sword cane

I’m in love
September 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM