Ununnilium
Cinema Addict
Member Since: 22 Oct 2010
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Bio: Deeply queer, impossibly problematic, full of love and kindness defying the evil that plagues the land.
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Tales of Terror (1962) - Rated 13 Sep 2025
"Delightful. A lot of really good actors bouncing off each other, with enough Genuine Creepiness, Hallucinatory Weirdness, and Genuine What-the-Fuckery to give you that Poe-ish frission."
Neptune's Daughter (1949) - Rated 07 Sep 2025
"Oh boy, it's one of Those postwar comedies, racing right past Comedy, diving deep into Komedy, and ending up all the way over in Qwamedee. Also, we've all had the conversation about how "Baby It's Cold Outside" isn't actually rapey, but the context they put it in here makes it feel *actually pretty rapey*!! Montalban is always likeable despite the dumb shit he has to say and do, and the big production numbers are very fun, but it's all tainted by the constant condescending racism. Not good."
Amityville 1992: It's About Time (1992) - Rated 06 Sep 2025
"The platonic form of a cheesy early-90s direct-to-video horror sequel. There are a few good moments, a few good effects, and a few good performances, but mostly it's just ridiculous nonsense. I'd watch out for some pretty gross effects and an unnecessary dog death, but otherwise it's a riffing delight. 'It's about time, is what.'"
Humanity Has Declined (2012) - Rated 04 Sep 2025
"A fascinatingly strange series. The premise is elegaic science fiction, and the show leaps off that idea to do slice-of-life absurdist comedy and social satire. But deeper than that, it's about a selfish girl who cares deeply, who lives in a dying world but can't help dedicating herself to the new world being born. And fucks up a lot, but still makes a difference! But that gets expressed thru time loops and memory alteration and the joyful strangeness the fairies embody. Wonderfully weird."
The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) - Rated 30 Aug 2025
"This film is such a collection of Cool Things To Happen In Your Wuxia Movie that it must have manifested into existence directly out of the daydreams of a 13-year-old kung fu fan."
Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) - Rated 26 Aug 2025
"It still holds up! There are parts that are perhaps a bit too slow or a bit too oblique, but it ends up so rich, so full of meaning and feeling and character. It shows how, to really change things for the better, you can't just be satisfied with the socially assigned role that's "good" instead of "bad" - you have to keep pushing until the fear and judgment that hold the system together can no longer hold you. Plus surfing elephants and cowbell jewelry!"
Blade: Trinity (2004) - Rated 23 Aug 2025
"I really don't miss the early 00s. This is a good example of the worst trends of the era, with shitty color grading, action scenes where how "cool" they are is supposed to make up for awful fight choreography, aggressively heterosexualized violence, and Ryan Reynolds spewing a stream of unformed proto-Whedon quips. However, there *is* a vampire Pomeranian! So it could be worse, you know?"
ZENSHU (2024) - Rated 22 Aug 2025
"An excellent fantasy isekai about how art affects us and how we respond to it, through the lens of an astonishingly autistic woman. It's got a strong homage to the fascinating weirdness of late-80s-early-90s anime, it has a lot of queerness while also having one of the few really good straight focus relationships in anime, and the ending is... basically what you'd expect but done really, REALLY well. And I would love to see the original version of A Tale of Perishing."
Look Who's Talking Too (1990) - Rated 16 Aug 2025
"One of the most heterofatalist movies I've seen, with a main couple who absolutely should not be together, whose constant bickering turns hateful on a dime and whose love seems like obligation at best. Plus, no meaningful plot or arc, baby scenes that seem like the child actors wandered on set and the VAs did improv over it, a heavy dose of white suburban paranoia, and apologia for a fascist who waves guns around near babies. So bad that Mr. Toilet Man is easily one of the movie's top moments."
Sunset Blvd. (1950) - Rated 11 Aug 2025
"I've seen a hundred parodies of this, yet it still surprised and fascinated me. I'd expected it to be a cynical take at the shallowness of Hollywood, but these characters aren't shallow - they're full of deep emotions, glimpsed only thru acting choices, and the toxic relationship they fall into is just as deep, just as complex. The ways she pulls him in, the ways he feels like he has to be her savior, feels like a parasite, feels like he has to get away - if you know you know, and this knows."
