#THIS MOVIE IS EVERYTHING!!! I LOVE U CRISTIN!!

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*waves* any good tv shows or movies you'd recommend?

catch me smiling like a loon anytime someone asks me for recs anYWAY. this got long, unsurprisingly, so [cracks knuckles]

tv -- tbh i haven’t. been watching tons of shows lately, but! here are some of my recent faves 

feel good (netflix) -- just. so good. lgbt-focused, character-driven, feels so fragile and real and hits when you don’t expect it. bittersweet and cathartic, and i’m. so in love with it. perfect for a good cry! 100% recommend

tuca and bertie (1st season is on netflix, 2nd on adult swim) -- pretty much what i said about feel good, except in gorgeous, color-bursting, mind-blowingly good animation. the writing’s better than most ‘real’ shows, and you can feel the love the creators have for the characters and their stories. i don’t have time for people who shun animation as an inferior medium of story-telling. it’s the moment, people. get on board

violet evergarden (netflix) -- okay, so, like, i kinda feel weird reccing this bc it features some. questionable themes. feel free to send me an ask about it if you ever decide to give it a chance, but. that aside, it’s one of the most visually beautiful shows i’ve ever seen, and the stories are so intricate and wonderful and SAD, and i cried at almost every episode, and violet is an aspie bc i said so, and. yeah. 

made for love -- this one’s super off-beat and won’t work for everyone, and the only way to describe it is as the love child of the coen bros and love, death and robots, and i had so much fun? it tackles some very heavy issues like consent and constant exposure in today’s society, but in such a charming, breezy, pastel-hued way, you won’t even notice. cristin milioti is a force of nature <33

undone (prime) -- i think i’ve mentioned this one before? but it’s, like, literally in my head, all the time. you had me at animated existential family drama slash sci-fi. i cried, and i went through the entire range of emotions, and i was left destroyed and begging for more, even though it feels perfect as it is. just. can’t scream about this one enough

normal people -- so i have this, like, Thing, where i steer clear from everything overhyped. and boy, is this one overhyped. i think i saw the entire thing on tumblr before i ever decided to watch it. but it’s. it’s so good, man. and it’s so much more character-centered as opposed to romance-centered, and talks extensively about mental health and trauma and dealing with it, and it left me in shambles. totally worth the watch

i may destroy you -- another overhyped show that just, like, deserves it. deserves ALL the hype, and then some. i can’t even begin to fathom how michaela’s brain works. i’m literally speechless with her ability to create such a complex, intricate, hard-to-swallow story and leave everyone gasping with a dozen small reveals. it’s based on her true experience, which makes it all the more sadder, and all the more powerful, and i’m so happy to exist in a world where people like michaela coel get to tell their tales, and maybe, hopefully heal a bit through it

movies -- so i uhhh watch. a lot of movies. and most of them are older? which i know most people are not super into. so here are my fave new films i’ve seen, but u should totally feel free to ask for any more specific recs you might be in the mood for 🖤

censor (2021) -- slasher, SO much fun. enjoyed the first half way more than the second, bc it still maintained a modicum of, like, sense, but i really really enjoyed this

last night in soho (2021) -- i, like, have no excuses for myself. i loved it. there, i said it. there’s literally no character depth to be found, and it’s essentially a bava fan tribute, and i LOVED it. literally watched it in london, so seeing all the places i’d been wandering around helped make it even more immersive. but also, like, i think movies should be allowed to be fun, man

apples (2020) -- im greek and weird. it’s greek and weird. what else is there to say, truly (also, the leading actor was one of my first crushes growing up and im still. so into him. and what about it)

shiva baby (2020) -- omg u guys. u GUYS. this one is just??? so good??? literally a horror movie. watched emma seligman’s q&a on mubi, too, and could see how much making this movie meant to her, and the respect she had for her characters and her actors and her lgbt storyline and i just!!!! movies like that make me so happy, simply by, like, existing. they make the world better. GO WATCH THIS

the nightingale (2018) -- hmmmm this one is. not an easy watch. very violent. almost unnecessarily so. felt gratuitous, after a while, and if it was male-directed, i probably wouldn’t have waited the first half out. but it’s. it’s so good. spine-chilling. a slow burn in all the right ways. so profoundly human. so attuned to nature, and where we came from. so cathartic, this fight against oppression. really, truly a gorgeous piece of art

zombi child (2019) -- this is! also not an easy watch, but not for its violence. it’s a pretty fragmented tale, and slow, and sometimes loses the thread, but i couldn’t take my eyes off the screen. it’s about waking up and finding your own mind in a world that will try its hardest to hide it from you

shelley (2016) -- the main criticism you’ll hear against this one is that it’s very, very slow, but! i think we’ve already established im, like, very into that. it works so much better for me, this slow building of tension, this ominous undercurrent running through every scene, the. wrongness of it. you know something’s not right from the start, and there’s nothing you can do about it. it’s a car crash. you’re helpless

a colony (2018) -- wasn’t sure about this one before pressing play and then. it sucked me right in. it’s such a profoundly human story, full of unavowed fury and bitterness and the restlessness that dries up once you dip a toe into adulthood, and it’s. pure magic. really, truly loved it. it warmed my heart and patted my head and told me everything would be okay. and it might not, but. it made me wanna believe it will

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this is going to be a series of little things my friends that i love/make me love them more (part 1):

-rachel did a pressure point thingy for me when i was having period cramps and idk if i worked but she cared enough to do it for me

-rachel also called me by my discord nickname when i was depressed on a call w her and a few other friends which made me laugh

-dina gets really excited when she sees a baby in public and talks about how cute they are (the same thing happens when rachel sees dogs in public)

-alan texts me good morning and good night every day

-dina has the sweetest voice

-dina holds onto you when shes scared and its cute (i.e. during thunderstorms or when shes watching a scary movie)

-meng lets me bother him and drag him outside even tho he doesnt have to go out

-meng likes to use filters on discord call and i love all of them

-andy is passionate about skin care

-andy could make a joke out of anything and laughs at everything

-andy acts judgemental but even so you dont feel like youre being judged and you know he loves u either way

-steph sends me tiktoks occasionally

-steph, dina, alan, cristine, and rachel give me hugs when im sad and never complain

- you can hear rachel or dina humming and singing to themselves sometimes

-rachel makes graphics/photo collages of her friends when its their bday or it’s a holiday with some relation to friendship or gratitude

- steph gives me her clothes when she doesnt want them anymore

- cristine lets me come over to just fuck around even though she doesnt need to

- whenever i go to cristine’s place we, most of the time, end up singing together or some ofther chaotic shit

-cristine makes cute drawings

- cristine and rachel are alaays there for you if you need it and theyre never judgemental about anything you have to say

-dina doesnt know how to comfort you when youre sad but will try her best and tell u she loves you

- (im pretty sure) one time when i was depressed on the bus ride home with my friends they decided to go karaoke a few days later and invited me to make me feel better (this was way before rona)

-i got depressed halfway home with my friends (alan, rachel, dina, meng) and they all tried their best to make me feel happier and tried to get me to open up to them

-rachel gets really excited when someone mentions kdramas, nct, twice, bts, kpop, or makeup (the same thing is true for dina with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Pattinson)

-rachel and i can silently walk with each other and it doesnt feel awkward at all

-rachel also gets excited when i buy her boba or her favorite candy

-andy likes to buy baguettes now and im all for it

-steph likes to make video edits of the “vlogs” we take when we hang out

-andy and steph like to recite tiktoks and memes everytime we hang out

- rachel likes dark academia and good literature, specifically quotes or posts about life/beauty

-alan always sends me animal videos and memes everyday

-seth is passionate as hell when it comes to starkid

-seth can also make you laugh and has funny voices

-ruby is a bit nerdy/geeky even though she doesnt show it

-ruby tells me love you every time we see each other even though we havent hung out in some time

-cristine freaks out and gets excited when she sees her “babies” (characters in TV shows that she loves)

-dina has the fashion of a popular girl but the personality of someone who, if youre close to, will be kind to you but insult you at the same time (in a friendly way not actually insult you)

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9 Straight-to-Streaming Blockbusters to Watch While You Wait for Tenet's Release

Once upon a time, movie fans had a lot to look forward to in the way of summer 2020 theatrical releases. The twenty-fifth James Bond flick No Time to Die was set to kick things off in April, and in May, Scarlett Johnasson's overdue MCU standalone film Black Widow and the next Fast and Furious flick F9 were scheduled to drop. Then, Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman 1984 was scheduled to hit theaters in June, and the long-awaited Top Gun: Maverick was expected the same month. And of course Christopher Nolan's Tenet, seemingly the last hope for some semblance of a blockbuster this year, continues to get pushed back indefinitely. That's just a small sample of the major movies which were delayed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

The silver lining of social distancing was that there was already a bounty of streaming and video-on-demand options on the way — and  many which pivoted to streaming debuts amid the shutdowns — to provide us all more than enough great movie options to keep audiences entertained in our own  at-home theaters.

Stay home and stay safe with these cineplex-quality films that are streaming on popular streaming services right now.

Spike Lee's latest joint, Da 5 Bloods, hit Netflix smack dab in the middle of nationwide protests over the murder of George Floyd, and, as with most of his filmography, the movie offers a timely, scathing rebuke of the history of America's treatment of Black people — this time, through the lens of the "bloods," Black soldiers who fought on the front lines in Vietnam. The story's action is carried forward by the decades-later reunion of one platoon, as they journey back to recover their lost leader's remains and the pile of gold they found and stowed away on the battlefield. But the takeaway from the pic — apart from the fact that Delroy Lindo delivers a tour-de-force performance — is that it sheds light on another oft-unrecognized sacrifice and segment of our nation's history.x96 tv box

If not a Netflix Original by design, Sam Hargrave's Extraction, a  Chris Hemsworth-led action pic, would've easily made the marquee of the local cineplex in a normal year. Not since  The Haunting of Hill House have we seen such an impressive extended single-take shot, and Hemsworth's turn as a disillusioned mercenary who reluctantly accepts an assignment to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned drug lord from a vicious rival is extremely watchable if you're looking to dig into a tub of popcorn and have a good time. Chances are, you'll be left wanting much more after the credits roll, and the good news is that Extraction 2 is already in the works.

Don't let the tight runtime fool you; Greyhound is still very much a war epic at just 1 hour and 31 minutes. The film — which Tom Hanks adapted from C.S. Forester's The Good Shepherd and which was directed by Aaron Schneider — features Hanks as the fictional commanding officer of a U.S. Navy vessel who must lead a convoy of Allied ships through the perilous Black Pit, a stretch of sea inaccessible to air support during the Battle of the Atlantic. For that three-day period, Hanks' Commander Ernest Krause is relentlessly tested and taunted by a "wolfpack" of U-boats, and it's on him to shepherd the ships across the Atlantic. There's little fluff to be found in this film, but the action is, to borrow an oft-used phrase in the film, "steady as you go."

For anyone who wasn't lucky enough to see the celebrated Broadway musical Hamilton live, especially when show creator  Lin-Manuel Miranda still led the original cast, director Thomas Kail captured a stunning 2016 performance of the show, with plans for the film to release wide in 2021. Once the coronavirus pandemic put all of Hollywood on hold, though, the pic — a musical biography of Alexander Hamilton told with a soundtrack of hip-hop, R&B, and soul — was redirected to a pre-Fourth of July release on Disney+ and gave audiences at home plenty of reasons to sing this Independence Day.

An anticipated romance movie smuggled inside of an action comedy, The Lovebirds was supposed to premiere at SXSW in March 2020 before everything shut down. That allowed Netflix to gobble it up, so nearly all the world could still see Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae play a couple on the rocks who learn to love each other again after accidentally becoming involved in a murder the same day they were going to break up. It's full of the kind of raucous humor that sees Nanjiani kicked in the face by a horse, all the while bringing Rae's and Nanjiani's characters closer together for a happy ending.

Gina Prince-Bythewood's action thriller The Old Guard is more than just your ordinary shoot-'em-up-bang-bang-style popcorn flick. The pic stars  Charlize Theron as Andy, the ancient leader of a race of semi-immortals who secretly work to save the world, one fight at a time, and take on a reluctant new member in KiKi Layne's Nile. Although The Old Guard does offer plenty of high-octane sequences, the characters also deliver some thoughtful commentary about the heroes' burden of watching the world continue to self-destruct no matter how many bad guys they vanquish, along with some sublime LGBTQ representation.

The less you know about Palm Springs going into it, the better, but it's probably no secret at this point that this delightful comedy features Andy Samberg and  Cristin Milioti as a pair of wedding goers who find themselves trapped in a time loop. Their performances are at once goofy and grounded, and there are plenty of surprises packed into every precious minute of this wild, incredibly fun rom-com with touches of sci-fi. x96 max plus

Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg have teamed up for a lot of action dramas over the years (see also: Lone Survivor, Patriots Day, Deepwater Horizon, and Mile 22), but  Spenser Confidential marks their first film which even flirts with comedy — and it's all the better for it. The premise of the movie is simple enough; Wahlberg stars as an ex-cop who did his time for beating up his crooked boss and returns to find that his department is enmeshed a very sordid scandal that only he, his mentor Henry (Alan Arkin), his gentle giant roommate Hawk (Winston Duke), and his on-and-off-again girlfriend Cissy (Iliza Schlesinger) can untangle. But what might otherwise be a rote cop drama is immediately elevated by the movie's commitment to being a very Boston drama with a lot of sharp humor sprinkled in at just the right moments.

OK, maybe this one wouldn't have been a major blockbuster, but it's already destined to be an indie sci-fi classic talked about by elite cinephiles for years to come. The winner of Sundance's 2019 Best Narrative Feature Audience Award is set in 1950s New Mexico and follows a young woman and a man who investigate mysterious audio that appears to be coming from space, but skips special effects for mounting mood and incredible filmmaking. Andrew Patterson's directorial debut is a stunner, showing off his unique eye with what are sure to be his trademark one-take shots involving hundreds of extras, multiple locations, and a camera that never wants to turn off. There's a mesmerizing scene involving the young woman operating a switchboard that's already become one of my favorite scenes in film history, and I can't wait to see what Patterson comes at us with next.

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hiiiiiiiii for the ask thing!!! 1, 10, 13, 34, 45. 47 i hope you had a great year!!! and i wish u the best for the next xxxx

hi anon! thanks for the questions!! i hope you had a great year as well!

1. first things first, did you have a good year?

this one is honestly kind of difficult to answer. i had a weird year: i finished school in february and have spent the rest of the year living at home and trying to get a job. i kept getting a job, but then it would fizzle after a few months so i’d have to start over. i did a lot of puttering around the house this year – and a lot of writing. in terms of my anxiety, this has been the best year of my life. in terms of everything else … it feels like this is a transition year. or a stand-in year until i can get the rest of my life together. 

10. what song sums up this year for you?

oof what a question. i can’t go by lyrics or what the song is about to sum up my year, but in terms of the emotion of the song, i think maybe “green light” by lorde for the sheer emotional overwroughtness of it (i Felt A Lot Of Things this year) or maybe “villians pt II” by emma blackery for the naked self-blame and hatred becayse i also did that a lot this year. and maybe also “the things i say” by joanna newsom for its quiet nostalgia and vague sadness and also because joanna was so important to me this year it feels wrong not to pick a song by her.

idk though, honestly it’s really hard to choose. 

13. did an actor / actress catch your attention for the first time this year?

i’m gonna answer this question with media creators (actors, musicians, youtubers, etc.) in general because i spent a lot of time this year discovering new super cool and talented people. here’re the first few that come to mind:

king princess, amy adams, dar williams, danny gonzalez, drew gooden, jenny nicholson, cristin militoli, lindsay ellis, letitia wright, margot robbie, amandla stenberg, idk so many more?? this is all from the top of my head and i know i’m late to the party with a ton of them lol whoops

(also just for fun, some movies, tv shows, albums, and miscellaneous shit i loved this year in no particular order: everything by joanna newsom, mortal city and the honesty room by dar williams, wynonna earp, i rewatched buffy and it was great as always, i’m currently rewatching veronica and it’s also awesome as always, one day at a time, arrival, loving vincent, @marshmallow-the-vampire-slayer ‘s recaps (i went through and reread all the buffy ones they were amazing oh my god), buzzfeed unsolved, i tonya, make my bed by king princess, venice bitch by lana del rey, one day at a time, b99, parks and rec, the office, celeste and jessee forever, to all the boys i’ve loved before, set it up, disobedience, expectations by hayler kiyoko, all our wrong todays by elan mastai, boys for pele by tori amos, @kleineleopardin ‘s blog in general, new girl, jenna marbles, @honeyy-honeyy ‘s cat content, and now my laptops about to die i have to stop listing people rip)   

34. did you have to cut ties with someone this year?

nope not in the slightest. i actually made a ton of friends this year! (i’m talking about u @honeyy-honeyy love u) 

45. did your opinion of anyone change for the worse?

none that i can think of, honestly. maybe a few celebrities but i can’t think of any names right now

47. if you make any resolutions, what will your resolutions be for the coming year?

i really really want to spend less time on my phone on social media. i want to be able to spend more time in just my head without the whole world’s thoughts and ideas and opinions and tragedies and scandals constantly tumbling around in there. i want to have more room in my brain for words because i really want to keep working on my writing. 

i mean in a perfect world, i really want to fall in love but that’s not the sort of thing you can resolve to do.

maybe eat more fruit. idk.

thank you again for the questions, anon! sorry it took me like a day and a half to answer them, i haven’t been on my computer. i’m wishing you the happiest new years and i hope you have a hopeful, soft, and calm 2019.