Christine Kelley
@ballardiangorse
Writer/journalist from Harper’s Ferry; now in Rochester NY. Words at Eruditorum Press. Obstreperous disabled transsexual. Sportsy Southern futch. Opinions my own. Go Nats. She/Her.
I like a certain type of movie, which seems to be Women Going Through It.
Had some technical problems at my polling place, so the staff gave me two stickers for bearing with them. Am I wearing these right?
Way over-representing movies in this thread, so: R.E.M.’s Around the Sun starts off well with Leaving New York. Just leave the rest of the album alone.
Gregg Turkington’s scenes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are extremely funny.
Woody Harrelson singing “San Quentin” in Venom: Let There Be Carnage made me giggle. “Mr. Warden, you tasted like ham.”
Roma is an evil colonialist piece of shit, but it looks amazing.
Dead Poets Society has cromulent performances and cinematography.
The talk show sequence in Joker is one of the best pieces of suspense in recent Hollywood cinema.
The performances in The Lovely Bones are the only solid part of the movie.
Every scene with Scott Evil in the first Austin Powers movie is golden. Janet and I regularly quote “I have a gun.”
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Patrick Wilson are perfectly cast in the Watchmen movie.
Orson Welles in the 1967 Casino Royale temporarily makes you forget what movie you’re watching.
John Gielgud is a delight in Caligula. The Capri sequence as a whole ain’t bad.
Tom Waits as a grizzled prospector in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is some of the best casting of the Coens’ career.
Fear and Desire is legitimately inspiring. It proves you can make an unabated piece of crap and go on to be the greatest director in history.
The moment in Lord of War where Nic Cage apologizes after the gun he sold a soldier malfunctions when it’s pulled on him is genuinely hilarious.
Jessie Buckley fully deserved her Oscar for Hamnet. A heartwrenching performance in a piece of cloying, anti-intellectual dreck.
Saw an Xbox on the road today. Half-expected to see it dragging a controller along.
Remembering Toussaint Louverture on his birthday. As fine a man as ever lived, and an example for the ages.