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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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."
Moonfall (2022) - Rated 09 Aug 2025
"Stanley Kubrick built the moon so he could fake the moon landing! It turns out you can't make a 90s-style blockbuster anymore - this Armageddon/Independence Day fusion tries, but its characters are impossible to connect to, the plot is a series of barely-connected setpieces, the pseudoscience isn't coherent enough to make the characters' actions matter, and the attempt at 2001-esque wonder is goofy nonsense. It would be very boring to watch alone, but riffing with friends, it's a delight!"
Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld (2015) - Rated 02 Aug 2025
"Some writers write in a sort of automatic way, channeling deeply personal shit from their inner selves, creating something completely unfiltered, with all the flaws and virtues that implies. But Takashi Miike is the only one I've ever seen who directs films that way. This movie is tonally dissonant, drops characters and plot points, has a couple of completely gratuitous rape scenes, and overall doesn't really work. But at the same time, when the frog shows up, it's magnificent and hilarious."
The Cat in the Hat (2003) - Rated 28 Jul 2025
"The hype is real - however bad you've heard this is, it's worse. Myers's performance is matched in annoyance and confusion only by The Love Guru. The generic plot they stapled onto the book has the toxic moral of "you're being kids wrong, an adult has to tell you how to do it right". The jokes are endless and terrible, in conception and execution, full of adult references that will confuse kids and annoy other adults. There's a few good bits - mostly production design - but the whole is rancid."
Keep your hands off Eizouken! (2020) - Rated 27 Jul 2025
"Non-traditional character designs, non-traditional animation style, non-traditional focus even for an It's My Special Interest anime, a storyline that bounces around because it wants to show you every single aspect of the art of animation and every single thing in these girls' heads. This could very easily be Very Yuri, there's plenty of fuel for that, but there's no time for romance when they're spending all-nighters getting the last key frames in! A very fun and worthwhile time."
Teen Beach Movie (2013) - Rated 19 Jul 2025
"Compulsory heterosexuality is so powerful that you can get away with writing a boy and girl that have all the chemistry of bickering siblings, then give the girl a deep, heartfelt connection to another girl across time, symbolized by exchanging iconic jewelry, and we're still supposed to read the het pair as lovers. Anyway, fun concept, story that has no idea what its themes or morals are, extremely early-2010s humor, boring but also fascinating, gay gay gay, gay gay."
Bugsy Malone (1976) - Rated 12 Jul 2025
"A strange and unique work. The acting of the kids turns a cheesy pastiche story into something ridiculously playful. (And Jodie Foster shows off how much raw talent she had even at this age.) The songs are excellent (as expected from Paul Williams), the comedy is inventive, and the ending is absolutely out of nowhere yet works. You couldn't make this today - largely because we've culturally agreed that a 12-year-old singing a steamy torch song is Weird - but I'm glad someone made it back then."
Train to the End of the World (2024) - Rated 12 Jul 2025
"A weird and delightful Gulliver's Travels-esque story with cute girls and yuri - and complex engagements with guilt, regret, relationships and forgiveness."
Jumanji (1995) - Rated 07 Jul 2025
"Honestly, better than I remembered from childhood. There's some painfully honest engagements with trauma and abandonment, and this may be one of the most complex characters Robin Williams ever played. Plus, it's genuinely funny, with a willingness to go all the way - the Blues Brothers-esque scene in the department store was spectacular. There's definitely some 90s-upper-middle-class-ness about it, but it's still a solid family movie. (And honestly, I loved the weirdness of the ending.)"
Antz (1998) - Rated 28 Jun 2025
"Ugly, pointless, and it stars Woody Allen."
