#this movie is on internet archive and has james spader in it :)

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damn. watching sex, lies and videotape (1989) and my guy has problems with human connection i can relate to

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💚WAKE UP BABES ITS FAVORITE FILMS WATCHED IN 2024 TIME💚

Truly and Genuinely couldn't get it down to nine and i love that for me. Thoughts and where to watch links under the cut:

💚 You and the Night (2013): I am hard pressed to think of a movie where I was more immediately endeared to all of the characters. Which is fairly important for a film where the premise is magical realism orgy. Its empathetic and bitter sweet and excruciatingly french and i care about it a lot.

💚 Moon Garden (2022): Just a good solid journey through the dreamscape movie in the style of Labyrinth (1986) or *gunshot noise* (2005). Admittedly the set up that gets the dream rolling is pretty weak (little girl with a fraught family situation gets accidentally knocked into a coma). But the ensuing wander through many an elaborate location, meeting colorful friends and foes along the way, is a pure delight. There's never enough movies in this genre for my taste and this is a fine addition.

🎥 Watch on Pluto: here

💚 Anchoress (1993): Who knew that the story of a woman becoming so obsessed with The Virgin Mary she creates her own one woman heretical folk religion around it would take me the fuck out. Just a really interesting and singular take on what the mingling of pre Christian religions and Catholicism in 15th century England might have looked like.

💚 Twister (1996): This is the perfect disaster movie. Full stop. The storm chaser crew is my dream blunt rotation. The central romance is a joy. Helen Hunt is out for revenge against a weather phenomenon. Every beloved character actor on earth is there. 10/10 no notes.

💚 Sex Lies and Videotape (1989): Gonna try and get through this without saying anything deranged about James Spader but I can't promise anything. Good LORD was that something. In general I have more admiration for the psychosexual drama genre than i have actual interest in it but I'm so glad I went for this. It has infidelity. It has kink. It has fraught sibling relationships. It has James Spader looking submissive and breedable. WHO SAID THAT.

🎥 Watch on Internet Archive: here

💚 Civil War (2024): Sure its worthless as political commentary but it is an Alex Garland dystopian road trip movie featuring a bunch of unhinged asshole artists who are willing and sometimes seem to be actively trying to die for their craft. There's even toxic yuri if you are only willing to believe. Plus the path the gang takes to DC is virtually identical to the rout i used to take back and forth from college. This movie is effectively me bait and brother I'm caught.

💚 All of Us Strangers (2023): This is simply a really soft sad little ghost story. Comfortably claustrophobic. Hurts like hell but goes down smooth. Feels like every five years Andrew Scott shows up and emotionally wrecks my shit.

💚 Love Lies Bleeding (2024): I think its great that dirtbag murder daughter!Kristen Stewart and unstable softie!Katy O Brian did all of that. I hope they got away with it. Seriously though wonderful character study, wonderful touches of horror, wonderful touches of magic. Rose Glass knows what she's fucking doing and it rules.

💚 Challengers (2024): For lack of a better, less cringe, way of saying this: it made me feel The Social Network emotion. Its about the History and the Tension and the Resentment and the Infatuation. This dysfunctional toxic thruple truly means so much to me. A threesome wouldn't fix them but it probably wouldn't make them worse and i would like to see it.

💚 Audition (1999): Big year for having a Great time watching movies I'd been intimidated by for years (Tokyo Gore Police (2008) and The Woman (2011) are both probably somewhere in my top 20). This took the living up to the hype cake though. Absolutely recommend seeing it in a theater if you can. S/O to the group at my screening where half the squad had seen it before and the other half CLEARLY had no idea what they were getting into.

🎥 Watch on Tubi: here

💚 Santa Sangra (1989): The beauty of weird film club is that I have now seen enough Alejandro Jodorowsky movies to have controversial to actively bad opinions about them, which is to say it is unreal how much more I liked this than Holy Mountain. Certainly parts of it are leering and exploitative, in a way unavoidable to a movie of this kind containing both a circus and an insane asylum, but in a way that can only be born from a place of genuine fascination if not active compassion towards its subjects. Its a fascinating balance to watch. Plus by the end I was just fully and genuinely really invested in those kids getting themselves sorted out.

🎥 Watch on Tubi: here

💚 The Substance (2024): Nothing like a primal scream of rage about the beauty industry and stigma of aging where you can also tell that the director is having a fucking blast the whole time. The thing that really got me about this movie... Well okay the thing that really Got Me about this movie was the 20 minute operatic blood explosion. I am who i am. But the OTHER thing that really got me about this movie was how committed it was to deliberately creating its own reality. You love to see something made with this much clear and focused Intention in the year of our lord 2024.