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 What a fucking trip this film is, I’ll say that much for it, but not in a good way. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect, other than I had been looking forward to seeing this film since it came out, but every time I had it on my schedule to go see in the theatres, something came up. So when it popped up on Disney+, I said ‘HELL YEAH, LET’S GO!’ And honestly, it was a bit of a let down, considering it won MULTIPLE Oscar Awards this past year. While some may have been deserving, one that I would absolutely fight against is for Best Director. Sean Baker is already known to be slightly problematic and this film did not do any favours for that argument. A rising role in the film industry, especially since the COVID pandemic, has been intimacy coordination. There are still plenty of people that don’t know about it nor understand its true purpose. While the main actors did consent to forego an intimacy coordinator for this film, due to not only the content, but the explicit nature of ea...
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Heartbreak feels good in a blog like this

 Good evening y’all! It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted on this blog, but I’m back, baby! Films are a HUGE part of my life now, so I’ve decided to revive this blog and well, if anyone does happen to read my reviews, great. If not, well, at least I can get some energy somehow, IDK. I’ll be starting posts this week, I’m going to aim for one post a week, but it might be more, who knows. I have an A-List membership with AMC so many films will be ones I watch in the theatre and I’m going to be a weirdo and have a notebook with me so I can take notes as I watch. But also, I have access to a couple of major streaming services and I have a very nice home theatre set-up now, so some will be watched there. It’ll be easier to take notes though of course it’ll also be easier to be interrupted since I have 2 fur children and 1 scaly baby now. Such is life. The reason I plan to take a notebook to the theatre with me is because I now have 3.5 years of experience being part of the Spooky ...
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Struck By Lightning

It's been a very long time since I'e written a blog post.  Especially one about a movie. Struck By Lightning certainly is not a move I had heard of until I found it on Netflix.  But it certainly spoke to me.  It seems to be one of those typical, coming of age teenager angst movies.  But what it really is about is real life.  The protagonist, Carson Philips, gets struck by lightning his senior year of high school and the movie is about his semester leading up to when he died.  He has a mother who is an alcoholic and dependent on prescription drugs and a father who left his family and started a new one simply because he didn't want to deal with them anymore.  Carson is an outcast in high school and ends up blackmailing other students into participating in a Literary Magazine so that he can better his chances to get into his dream college. This movie really spoke to me because Carson has been dealt a lot of shit in his short 17 years of life.  Wh...
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"Say Anything" 1989

Somehow I never got a chance to watch "Say Anything" starring John Cusack until tonight when I stumbled upon it on Netflix.  Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing has yet to be determined because we all know that Netflix sucks the life out of you and it was at least my third movie of the day. I digress - this post is about my feelings on the film, not a synopsis of my day. I have heard reference to one specific scene of this film for many years.  It has never even been a reference to the entire scene, though.  It has only ever been a reference to a very particular moment in that scene - Lloyd (played by John Cusack) standing outside Diane's (played by Ione Skye) window.  I mean, that image is even on the movie poster.  I am sorely disappointed in how that scene played out, actually.  I thought it was going to make everything better, but it didn't. This film is in the genre of Romantic Comedy, and while some things were funny and there was romance i...
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

If you have not the read 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkein but plan on seeing the film based off of it, I have two tips for you - don't worry if you haven't read it, you practically do not need to with how detailed the film is and that being said, that's because the tiniest book in the series about Middle Earth, The Hobbits and the Lord of the Rings is split into three films, each will probably be as long as the first, which was almost 3 hours long. For once, I probably will NOT complain about how the films don't follow the book. There is a problem with that however - I have not read any of the books. I own 'The Hobbit' and 'The Two Towers' (which is actually the culmination of Books 3 & 4 in the series, 'The Treason of Isengard' and 'The Ring Goes East'. I love when authors do series because it just makes it easier for the world to last for the fans. I am a HUGE fan of the 3 films that are currently out and maybe that's ...
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Food Review: German Bistro

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This is actually my first food review I've ever written, so I hope you enjoy it! This is their Facebook image. I got to visit German Bistro in Tampa on MacDill Ave earlier tonight. I went to meet with some members of the USF German Culture Club, which I am the current president of, and can I just say 'WOW!'. I only ordered the Potatoe Pancakes and Sauerkraut, but oh man was it good! The potatoe pancakes were fresh and hot, the spicing of it was PERFECT! The sauerkraut was not the stuff you get in cans, either. I'm not sure if there is such a thing as fresh sauerkraut, but it was the best kind I've ever had. We then got to try their homemade apple strudel because they wanted to support the club. Now, I worked at a German Bakery in Fort Lauderdale one holiday season and this apple strudel was even better than that, even though I personally made it fresh (then again, that was before I could actually bake). The restaurant is a little smaller than I had expe...
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The Notebook

Let me preface this by saying that this is legit the first time that I have actually seen 'The Notebook'. That may be sad, it may not be. Regardless, it's true. I have heard about people talking about it since it was released in theatres in 2004. Essentially, it's about a woman's whom is retold the story of her own life from a book she wrote herself. At the end of the film, it shows her husband, Noah, flipping to the beginning of the book where she wrote "The story of our lives by Allison Hamilton Calhoun. To my love, Noah, Read this to me and I'll come back to you." The film is adapted from the Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name. I have not read the book either, so this was a completely new experience for me as I was expecting a very romantic, gushy, chick-flick type film. It took me about half of the film to realize that the story was about Allie as the flashbacks are longer than the current-time scenes. The story itself is very beautiful ...
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