#2022 movies

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Mia Goth as Maxine Minx in X (2022) directed by Ti West

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Rotxo: Who else is hiding in the laundry room trying to listen to Ao’nung and Lo’ak’s conversation?

Neteyam: Me. I’m in the laundry basket.

Tsireya: I’m in the washing machine.

Y/n: I’m in the closet.

Neteyam: We accept you Y/n. <3

Y/n: No. I’m literally in the closet.

Neteyam: Love is love. <3

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GLASS ONION: A KNIVES MYSTERY (2022)

Director: Rian Johnson Cinematography: Steve Yedlin

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Close (2022), dir. Lukas Dhont.

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One Dress a Day Challenge

November: Oscar winners

Wakanda Forever / Angela Bassett as Queen Ramonda

Year: 2022

Designer: Ruth E. Carter

After the success of Black Panther in 2018, Ruth E. Carter and Angela Bassett both continued to knock it out of the park with Queen Ramonda's costumes in Wakanda Forever. The queen wears this two-toned purple velvet gown to address the UN in the opening sequence. As with many other onscreen purple dresses, it looks considerably deeper in color in the movie than when seen offscreen. According to Ms. Carter, it took four to six months to create.

As in the first film, a 3-D printer was used to create the collar and crown. I found out the crown is modeled on a style of headdress worn by Zulu married women, called an isicholo.

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Aftersun - 2022

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Girl, interrupted (1999)

Thirteen (2003)

Skins (2007 - 2013)

Black Swan (2010)

X (2022)

The Suicide Virgins (1999)

Lolita (1997)

Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof (1981)

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Welcome back, cowboy.

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Having lost my father at a similar age . This movie really resonated with me .

As a child parents are like our entire world . They are bigger than life to us . Their mishaps feel like a betrayal to our perceptions of their entire persona . We can't really grasp their struggles . Adulthood to a normal child is full of excitement, something to look forward to . A little jump in the time and you can finally do all the things that you couldn't then. Time passes slowly as you dream about that tomorrow. Unlike adulthood when time doesn't seem to stop and doesn't let you stop either to dwell on your worries because you immediately have to set your eyes on the next thing. Once you reach adulthood you realize how misguided your expectations were as a child . With this new perception the same old memories paint a completely different picture of our past experiences and the people we thought we knew . How our parents were also just people trying to figure things out and the jump in age doesn't give you  an easy access to the adulthood we saw in our rose tinted glasses as a child. With the old memories , a little imagining and the new found adult lenses we can piece together who our parents were . But the puzzle is left incomplete when the person in question is not here with us anymore. This movie is about a similar experience.

Our protagonist went on a long trip with her father when she  was 11 years old . And now she is the same age her father was at the time . She tries to understand her father through old VHS tapes , her memories and imagining what he could have been doing when he wasn't with her , trying to decipher who her father was , a man she never got the chance to know .

This movie is tender , delicate yet bittersweet . We see these beautiful moments of a father and a daughter. He really tries to be a happy cheery person for his daughter. But at moments you can see through his facade . He is struggling financially, he and his wife aren't together , an abusive childhood , how he never even imagined to live this long . There are many scenes to pinpoint but especially the last scene where she tried to grab hold of him from her memories as he fades away left a deep impression in my psyche .

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Three Thousands Years of Longing (2022) ----------------------------------------------- dir. George Miller cin. John Seale cs. USA, Australia

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Hellraiser (2022) directed by David Bruckner

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Y/n: *Walking in to a room* Sorry I'm late... I was... doing things.

* Sounds of running footsteps progressively getting louder*

Neteyam: * Out of breath* THEY PUSHED ME DOWN THE FUCKIN' STAIRS.

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Triangle of Sadness (2022), Ruben Östlund

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Skinamarink (2022), dir. Kyle Edward Ball.

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The Bad Guys (2022)

The Bad Guys falls just short of being an evergreen, newly-minted animated classic. The visuals are dynamic, the characters memorable, there are plenty of big laughs, the voice acting is terrific and the dialogue is a joy to listen to. It becomes a bit conventional towards the end but that’s hardly a deal-breaker; more of a demonstration of how good the rest of the movie is.

In a world where humans and anthropomorphic animals co-exist, Mr. Wolf (voiced by Sam Rockwell) is the head of "The Bad Guys". With Mr. Snake (Marc Maron), Mr. Shark (Craig Robinson), Mr. Piranha (Anthony Ramos) and Ms. Tarantula (Awkwafina), there’s nothing they can’t steal and no situation they can’t escape from. When their luck finally runs out, Wolf convinces state governor Diane Foxington (Zazie Beetz) and Police Chief Misty Luggins (Alex Borstein) they can change their ways.

From the opening scene, you know this movie will be something special. We begin with Mr. Snake and Mr. Wolf talking in a diner and their dialogue feels like a deleted scene from Pulp Fiction. From there, we meet the delightfully nasty crew. Well, I say nasty, but they’re more mischievous than “bad”. Or maybe it’s just that the characters are so charming you give them all a pass. I’m sure guinea pigs would have a very different opinion of Mr. Snake than me, for example. That brings us to an aspect of this world that’s a lot of fun: the loose “rules”. In films like Zootopia or Cars, the societies have clearly been hammered out by the development team but a part of you still wonders about food, cattle, the world’s history, etc. In The Bad Guys, there are anthropomorphic animals and “real” animals, both Mr. Shark and Mr. Piranha can breathe air and few aspects of day-to-day life are sized for Ms. Tarantula. It's like "Rules? What rules?" but the story is too funny for you to stop and think about any of that. Mr. Shark, for instance, is a master of disguise but he’s clearly terrible at it - being, you know, a big shark walking around on two legs. Somehow, he still manages to fool everyone, despite always choosing the most outlandish disguises and ridiculous characters to portray. It makes no sense, but it makes for all sorts of surprises, each funnier than the last. You can just tell everyone involved in this film had a great time thinking of visual gags and little moments that would flesh out the characters. Some are more developed than others but all of the villains feel integral to their team.

Visually, The Bad Guys has a lot to offer. The animation is sort of a blend between traditional 2D and the more recent, more experimental style we saw in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, with the action scenes being the stand-outs. Mr. Wolf is the leader, the dedicated pickpocket and the getaway driver. There are at least three big chase scenes with so many pieces moving you can hardly keep track of them all. None of the action is actually disorienting; it just distracts you enough for you to be surprised by the punchlines.

Following the Bad Guys as they come up with plans, execute them, improvise on the fly when things don’t go right, show off their charms (you can sense there’s a bit of a something-something about to go on between Mr. Wolf and Diane Foxington), and prove why they’ve never been caught before is so much fun it’s a shame the movie eventually has to follow a more standard plot. I’m not complaining that they eventually get caught, or that they have to pretend to be good to fool Professor Marmalade (Richard Ayoade). All that’s enjoyable, particularly the scenes where the thieves have to fight their animal instincts to make their ruse convincing. My criticism for The Bad Guys, my only criticism, really, is that eventually, we have to have a big, epic conclusion with a bigger, meaner villain than the villains we’ve been following this whole time. I wish the film had taken a few more cues from Ocean’s Eleven and just had them wipe the smug look off of someone’s face than use their very particular set of skills to essentially turn into conventional heroes. It’s a small gripe. Ultimately, this is a delightful picture. Fast-paced, smartly written and most importantly, hilarious.

The Bad Guys is an animated film the whole family can enjoy. Adults, in particular, will laugh hard at the way the film takes inspiration from movies children would normally have no interest in (and shouldn’t watch anyway) and makes them fit in this world of talking animals. Kids will have a blast too. If this gets a sequel (the mid-credit scene hints at more to come) and the writers decide to take a few more chances, I could see myself giving it an even better score than the 4/5 I’m awarding The Bad Guys. (July 25, 2023)