Reposted by 🚮elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 25/02/2025ahead of the oscars this weekend, i asked my beloved friend & film enthusiast @freakinguseless.bsky.social to tell me her favorite oscar movies and performances. she's written up this fantastic piece!! dig in theturkishrug.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/t...theturkishrug.wordpress.comThe Oscars Dispatch 2025Ahead of Oscars weekend, film correspondent Emma talks her favorites of the award year. 041
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 09/02/2025every time ANORA happens i'm like... yeah, i should write my fic 020
Reposted by 🚮Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 03/02/2025imagine being the record exec who heard Pink Pony Club five years ago & not only told Chappell Roan “I don’t think this can be a hit” but also dropped her from your label over it. imagine fumbling that badly. 2154
Reposted by 🚮jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 26/01/2025stoker | dir. park chan-wook 211622
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 26/01/2025think the 2nd half of THE BRUTALIST is v. messy but this idea that there is so much love inside that marriage but it is no formidable opponent against everything else going on really worked for me. never giving up, and then in the epilogue, it didn't work. repurposed for someone else's ends. 020
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 26/01/2025same!!! crazy how much it worked on other people! like, ig... 000
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 26/01/2025love movies! sometimes i think it's more instructive to discuss what i liked about something rather than interrogating its faults. genuine, good faith criticism, positive or negative is important, but sometimes i find it easier to nitpick what didn't land for me rather than celebrating what did 1100
Reposted by 🚮Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 25/01/2025You remember that one ad campaign for the Kate Winslet/Idris Elba mountain movie where it just said, "THE DOG LIVES"? They need to do that for The Brutalist where it just says, "THERE'S AN INTERMISSION." 213613
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 25/01/2025seeing THE BRUTALIST today. excited to find out who the titular brutalist is. 050
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 25/01/2025i'm not saying the character is a "bad guy" either but jesus christ is the bar so low that not apologizing for assaulting someone is negligible bc they were just doing their job? 130
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 25/01/2025once again, people need to stop telling me igor is a "good guy" i'll k*ll him (have no idea how moderation works here lol) 140
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 23/01/2025happy oscar nominations morning to those who celebrate 020
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 22/01/2025it's truly such a lovely film!!! i haven't gone back and read it so i cannot speak to the adaptation choices, but the emotion of it is so palpable, and you're right, profound. still think so much about certain images and feel them deep in my bones. 010
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 22/01/2025i think i've been looking at my stats too much and trying to get the % reviewed up which is not really useful to me. and thank you! you're always so kind <3 010
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 22/01/2025i'm not really sure what it is, because whether it's a couple sentences or a couple paragraphs, i want to feel like myreview captures some of my thoughts or my experience? my review of THE ROOM NEXT STORE is short but it's something i wanted to say, vs. my SING SING review which feels more forced? 110
Reposted by 🚮Roxi Wheels @roxiwheels.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Today and in the coming days, remember 2783934111774
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 20/01/2025did this last night... movie of all time! when romy puts samuel's tie in her mouth, one woman loudly said, "ew!" 040
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 19/01/2025trying to write more letterboxd reviews but in a way i think it's having the opposite effect than the one i want, i.e. i don't have time to write them all so then there are half-baked thoughts rather than anything really thoughtful or intellectually/emotionally satisfying for me 120
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 19/01/2025it's no fun to not really love movies other people do (ANORA; NOSFERATU), but it's soooo fun to be totally moved by and love movies many people are mixed or down on (BABYGIRL; QUEER) 140
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 18/01/2025so many films to watch but kind of want to see BABYGIRL one more time before it leaves theaters 140
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 18/01/2025that didn't work BUT apparently the machine has to be turned off when i put it in descale mode! finally the descale light is off!!! 000
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 18/01/2025descaled it twice and then just did a 3rd "descaling mode" rinse w/o actually using any solution. now im leaving it unplugged and off for 30 minutes hoping this will work 😭 100
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 18/01/2025actually think julianne moore fits almodovar perfectly 010
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 17/01/2025thinking about writing ANORA fic againmedia.tenor.coma woman is drinking a glass of water at a table .ALT: a woman is drinking a glass of water at a table . 020
Reposted by 🚮Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Those last two sentences make a good ass point I think about a lot — for all media. There is no “correct” reading of a work. Also, just vibe and ride the wave. Open your heart to art, don’t try to “solve” it. An impossibility anyway. 1031779
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 16/01/2025watched INSTINCT (2019), and the people who actually watched this after seeing BODIES BODIES BODIES... oh no this film is not at all the same 120
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 15/01/2025hate jlc as a person, hated THE LAST SHOWGIRL, but... at least it's a real supporting performance, ig... 120
Reposted by 🚮Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 13/01/2025Non-consenual BDSM isn't a thing! That's just rape and assault! A core part of BDSM is consent! 151634497
Reposted by 🚮david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 13/01/2025THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2024 A video countdown vimeo.com/1046284152 1132583584
Reposted by 🚮Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Chalk one more up for #teambabygirl 0123
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 12/01/2025there are shots in THE LAST SHOWGIRL that are just... out of focus. felt like i was losing my mind. 030
Reposted by 🚮🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 10/01/2025elif gave me a chance to talk about two of my favorite things: dance on film and BABYGIRL (2024)! bsky.app/profile/ryde... 122
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 11/01/2025yep. and the character is clearly a kind of fantasy, but until the end the film sprinkled in humanity - and i understand splitting the difference there not working for someone - but the last act kind of wipes it out completely. someone beamed down to save romy's life/marriage. the end! 010
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 11/01/2025truly! even just for how he and the relationship impacted romy, felt like it did her journey a disservice to have him walk out of the film. felt unfinished, maybe? 110
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 11/01/2025thank you, savannah! and yeah, i think babygirl really thought it was giving us a "she can have it all!!!" ending and like... maybe, but i felt elated many times during the movie and the ending was notably not one of them!!! 110
🚮 @freakinguseless.bsky.social · 11/01/2025sean: i don't think BABYGIRL should go in [nicole kidman's hall of fame] amanda: you suck 030
Reposted by 🚮elif ⚡ @rydeen1997.bsky.social · 10/01/2025#BABYGIRL: woof woof, skip the boring bits 011
