Lots of movies this month mostly…. Too much fuckin time on my hands tbh!! Ready to play shows hehe

4/10 - Ginger Snaps - 2000 -

I looooove a campy creature feature. This one’s werewolf centric. Usually they’re very easy for me to love but I struggled with this’n.

I feel like the Harold and Maude influence was a bit heavy handed…

It’s really hard for me to enjoy a movie when the character’s motivations dont really make sense…. and that was the main downfall of this movie and it’s characters for me. There was never a great explanation of why these girls were so obsessed with death in the first place? Could’ve been subtextual but I never found it even hinted at…. hmmm…

Style wise I definitely fucked with this though. I’m a sucker for anything that looks even slightly like Buffy. I also love a menstruation/puberty metaphor and that was kinda the whole bit here. Overall… meh.

6/10 - Nowhere - 1997

Another month, another attempt to enjoy a Gregg Araki movie.

Damnnnn I for real wish i saw these in highschool….. I would’ve eaten them UPPPPPP.

But watching these as a 28 year old i can’t escape the feeling that they’re tryin so so hard to be edgy. And the visuals are so cool but I’d rather experience them in a music video possibly?

Definitely an entertaining watch but I think Araki films are just difficult for me to enjoy cause they make me think of the cringier times of my high school years, where I wanted my very normal suburban ass life to feel dangerous.

Definitely feel like it captures the apocalyptic feeling of being handed a world that’s a literal immolating trash fire.

I loved how sprawling the cast was and there are some majorly enjoyable lines of valley dialogue throughout.

8/10 - Pee-Wee As Himself - 2025

Bitch I love Pee-Wee. I watched the TV show as a kid, had a Pee-Wee and Chair-y doll. Lawrence Fishburn was Cowboy Curtis to me long before he was Morpheus.

I didn’t realized how interesting and subversive Paul Reuben’s early days were… I never put much thought to how his weirdo ass got himself his own TV show… but this doc does a really good job at laying it all out.

Under-rated genius, just the type of person that should have a documentary made about them. Plus at two hours, it took up just the right amount of space.

4/10 - Sirens - 2025

Meh.

I thought the main character was a lil too on the nose as far as like “burn-out older sister who lost her youth taking care of her younger sister” character goes.

I feel like this was a less interesting version of what “May December” Julianne Moore gave us.

I get the metaphor: womens alluring and intoxicating power over men… but idk, wasn’t that moved.

As far as a critique of extreme wealth goes… I was also not that moved cause there is just sooooo much media around that theme coming out, I feel like u really gotta forge a path and have something very specific to say.

Was fun seeing the guy from Always Sunny be a lil bitch boy though.

8/10 - Empire of Light - Michael Bible
An NC writer suggested to me by my friend Ashleigh.
I tore through this book. Really accessible and emotional writing.
Tells the story of a prank which turns into a murder which turns into the high school football star abandoning his post as a pillar of the community. All of which is sandwiched between a fantasy story of horses, princesses and a big ass war.
Definitely gonna read more of his books!

Still in Progress - Swamp Thing
Samuel loaned me this collection of early Swamp Thing comics.
Definitely the most traditional “superhero” type comic I’ve ever read
Been reading before bed and at the pool, gonna bring it to the beach for Alan’s birthday also <3 I think it’s perfect for that kinda setting but ultimately it’s not totally blowing my mind.
It’s a really nostalgic one for my best childhood friend though, so if reading it helps me connect with his inner child i’m so down.
Apparently this character is revisited later in a darker kinda way in a different, more recent series, I’m excited to check that out.
Cool to brush up on a classic tho! I love how bright and neon-y the artwork is in these older comics.

8/10 - A Woman Under the Influence - 1974 - Classic Cassevetes film with an all timer Gena Rowlands performance. Difficult ass watch. Drops you into the home of a woman struggling with her mental health, trying her best to throw dinner parties for her husband and his friends, and taking care of her children.

Completely un-glamorized approach to this particular struggle, unlike say, Girl Interrupted or Prozac Nation (both of which I also like) but where “unstable women” still come of as sexy in some ways.

AWUtI depicts it’s characters in all their hideousness. Both, Gena Rowlands character, who is struggling to pass as a “normal” house wife, and her husband and family who are reacting to her attempt.

Truly heartbreaking, probably never need to watch it again but glad I saw it once.

8/10 - Talented Mr. Ripley - 1999

I’ve never thought that Matt Damon was all that hot but DAMN … in a cast of gorgeous ass people he really goes above in beyond in this one. The classic 1950’s look reallllly suits him.

This movie was a wild fucking ride …. I don’t wanna spoil anything cause I watched this knowing basically nothing and it was awesome.

Recommend if you want the sexiness and beautiful scenery of “Call Me By Your Name” combined with the genre bending twistiness of “Anora” combined with idk… American Psycho??

7.5/10 - Slumber Party Massacre - 1982

Iconic ass erotic slasher!!!!!!

Bro I looooove when you can tell when a horror movie is made by women a la Jennifer’s Body. This movie walked so that movie and Scream could run IMO.

This movie is ultimately for the gurls!!!! Such a romp.

infintity/10 - Rap World - 2025

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i <3 u connor omalley and also the boys from Joy Tactics

8.5/10 - Hacks - 2021 -

The first three seasons were genuinely some of the best comedic television I have seen in a long ass time. Fourth kinda felt like it was retreading old ground… reverting characters to older versions of themselves that I thought we had earned never seeing again.

But forreal, first three seasons had some incredible and surprising storytelling, and impecccable writing. Which is definitely necessary for a show that is about comedy writing.

Lot’s of fun bisexual antics storylines which is fuckin a breath of fresh air.

Kayla played by Megan Stalter is the most originally funny characters I’ve seen on modern television.

Only rivaled by Maria Sofia from the recent seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm.