guy what enjoys films
an outlet for clicking my cherry blues. every review is a personal asmr session
apocalyptic video game traversal through endless night cities and the blastwaste that lies beyond their walls; a woman wanders, surviving.
nothing is like this. perfect visual poetry accompanying prose ripped straight out of pulpy mastertexts, translated into greek, spoken beautifully. a mode of adaptation entirely its own. this is what you get when a master experimental filmmaker decides his movies could use a few more shotguns.
and it all culminates in love! true, sickening, beautiful, bloody, boiling, vicious love!
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in 2019, a woman named Bianca Devins was murdered by an online stalker. gruesome photos of her body were circulated on discord and 4chan. on the day the story was reported, the photos dominated the first page of 4chan's "random" board, along with "tribute" images from like-minded psychotic freaks. I know this, because after reading a local news article about her death, overcome with morbid curiosity, I wondered just how accessible such images really were. fifteen seconds later, I knew…
david tennant as the slimy, manipulative avatar of the evils that men do. excellently plotted and portrayed, as our heroine desperately scrapes for a way to outsmart him… until the last ten minutes devolve into sensationalized fluff. not even his author could figure out a way around his invulnerable deception. what a waste!
true enough, though even the most famous guy online in a lycra suit had to show his face to make it stick. had he never revealed his identity, he couldn't have parlayed his spandex antics into times square billboards, or boba shop spotify playlists. good luck, spider-man; whoever you are.
exactly what I hoped it would be: the happy meal boy’s toy counterpart to Anno’s Cutie Honey.
with that—and with Anno’s twenty more years of old-manly perspective—comes a bit of the over-reverent, self-serious tone taken by a lot of modern revisions on legacy Boy Media. you know, that brain poison smog that leads to Dramatic & Contemplative Ghostbusters movies. the drive to make your action figures say something incisive about the adult world; to justify your love for them, or perhaps…