#god i love this movie so fucking much

[horror-aesthete]

Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein, 2019, dir. Daniel Gray Longino

[madegeeky]

31 Days of Horror Recs: Wherein the monster fights against itself but, in the end, just breaks

Pearl is my dream movie. It is number 1 on my top 5 favorite movies. A deep dive character study into someone who is the textbook definition of psychopath* but who desperately doesn't want to be one. If you're looking for much plot there isn't much there; it's all about Pearl and her inability to figure out the way the world works because she just cannot relate to it and people the way others do.

Pearl wants to be the girl who can love people but it's just not an emotion she can really feel and it breaks her. She wants people to love her but she's too strange; people can tell something isn't quite right and it breaks her. She wants to be a person that doesn't like hurting animals and people because that's not normal but she does and it breaks her. She wants to be a good person but she doesn't understand what that means and so she just can't do it and it breaks her. It breaks her, so she breaks the people around her and that is the movie.

Synopsis: In 1918, a young woman trapped on her family's isolated farm dreams of the glamorous life like she's seen in the movies. Eventually her ambition, temptations, and repressions come up against the drudgery of her life, her domineering mother, and her almost fully paralyzed father.

*Quick note that psychopathy doesn't mean murderous. Psychopathy is a specific set of traits that can also found in killers: impaired empathy and remorse, impulsivity, disregard for social norms, and aggressive outbursts to name just a few.

[demadogs]

I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024) dir. Jane Schoenbrun

[bertoyana]

charles and erik with each other: oh dear, oh dear. gorgeous 🥺👐 charles and erik with the villain of the week/the x-men: K1LL YOURSELF 🔥🔥🔥

X-Men: First Class (2011) | X-Men Apocalypse (2016)

[knowthatiloveyou]

Hannah Waddingham at the UK Premiere of "Venom: The Last Dance" supporting her bestie Juno Temple

[hazel-callahan]

hazel's just here to have a good time

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as Dr. Goldfoot

The Wild, Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot (1965)

[pinkbumblebees]

i should NOT be giggling at this as much as i am

[inkedinserendipity]

oh my god, y'all. oh my god. moana 2 spoilers under the cut.

i am just?? i am speechless. i am literally still collecting my thoughts. right now i am just a mess of glee and relief and joy at watching that movie. the first movie meant so much to me!! and the most important part of it to me was the friendship between maui and moana, and i am so proud of the sequel for how they did that relationship right. i was stunned honestly by how faithful they were to what drove the first movie - maui coming to respect and care about this mortal, and moana caring about him and turn.

the first thing he does when he hears the gods are threatening moana is go no, this is between me and him! this isn't about her! don't even talk to me about the way he dove into the ocean after her!! without hesitation, even after he just lost his hook and his powers! (especially after the way he reacted to that exact same thing in the first movie, but in this one, instead of lashing out, instead of even pausing to think about it, he just goes in after her.) the panic in his voice when he finds heihei and demands, oh hell, where's moana. the way he mourned - god, that broke my heart. that was palpable. that was tangible. the song, aue, aue....

fuck me. FUCK me. if me from six years ago could've seen this, i would've been overjoyed. i'm tearing up now, even thinking about it. this story that i cared about so deeply has been continued with so much respect to what spoke the most to me.

the callbacks made me so freaking happy too! the mini-maui being just as much of a little shit, keeping score, the oar and the hook, oh and MOANA'S OAR becoming the symbol of her divinity? i lost my freaking mind! that was so good! and her ancestors - her grandmother, tala - being the one who ushered her into divinity - was so fucking good. we tell the stories of our elders in a never-ending chain. you could see it happen! in the symbol of te fiti, the swirl of people who gathered around her to bring her back to life!

the tie between community killed me too. how in the beginning of the movie, the meeting in motunui featured just moana and her father - and then toward the end, the structure was full of people.

i have so many more thoughts, about the musical callbacks, the refrains from the first movie (and, candidly, a number of critiques about the new characters and the strange pacing and lackluster and plot and weird music choices - basically everything but the friendship between our leading duo, tbh), but this was just...my heart is so full. i am so glad i got to see this movie. younger seren, you would've fucking loved this.

[roboyomo]

my full sketchbook page dedicated to my watch of sonic 3. This movie is going to do Inexplicable Damage to my brain chemistry

[nipuni]

OH my god we just watched Dr.Who "Human Nature" and "Family of Blood"

[sweet-mary280]

Literally no one:

Yautja's Pov & Human:

I love it when the Yautja boyfriend holding a human's neck in some movie 😩🫶✨

But... what about us??? 🫣❤️‍🔥

[kissthebridee]

if i ever stop talking abt this movie just know im either dead or have been hacked because oh my god. genuinely the most gorgeous movie ive ever seen.

[isbergillustration]

Thought I could put on Mad Max: Fury Road in the background while I drew something else, but it did immediately turn into Mad Max: Fury Road fanart.

[the-oc-lass]

Nononono you don't understand, I've been staring at this gif for like a solid minute just watching Ambrosius's little tiny expressions and the slightest upturn of his eyebrows and the miniscule narrowing of his eyes on top of already pursed lips just- GIRL THAT'S THE EXPRESSION I MAKE WHEN I'M ABOUT TO CRY. HE LOOKS PAINED. AMBROSIUS LITERALLY LOOKS LIKE HE COULD CRY AND THEN HE PUSHES IT AWAY WHEN HE SAYS TO ARREST THEM, I AM UNWELL-

[luck-of-the-drawings]

!!! FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING!!! [IM NOT FUCKIN AROUND!!]

REACHED THE CUSP OF 'THIS MAY NEVER BE ABSOLUTELY FINISHED N IF I DONT SHOW IT NOW, IT WILL NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY.' SO HERE, A PROJECT IVE BEEN ORBITING AROUND UHH SINCE 2021 OR SO.