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 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 Empire Horror Film Festival Screening Committee! From that experience, I have learned that having a notebook to jot down jokes, thoughts, and comments about the film as I watch it has led me to being able to better critique the film. Because ADHD does not just disappear when you grow up.

I am very happy to be reviving this blog, I did at one point a few years ago delete some of my entries, but if you are ever curious, you can go all the way back to the beginning - 2007 - when I started this blog for my cinematography class in high school. That definitely wasn’t the first place I learned to love film(s), but it definitely helped to foster my understanding of why certain choices are made and cemented the desire to hopefully one day work in the industry, if my goal of building telescopes for NASA didn’t pan out. And well, I’m not working for NASA.

So feel free to leave any questions or comments on any posts, and be on the look-out for a review of ‘Anorak, coming at you soon!


Until next time—

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