NativeGuilt's Movie Reviews

"I just feel a bit down or something. … I don't know. Don't you ever feel like: you've just done a whole amazing day, and then you come home and feel tired and down, and it feels like your bones don't work? They're just tired, and everything is tired—like you're sinking." Written & Directed:  Charlotte Wells Composer:   Oliver Coates Cinematographer:   Gregory Oke Editor:   Blair McClendon Production Designer:  Billur Turan  Genre:   Drama MPAA Rating: R, for some language and brief sexual material Starring:       Paul Mescal as Calum     Frankie Corio as Sophie An adult Sophie relives the childhood memory of her eleven-year-old birthday trip to tourist trap Turkey with her father Calum Aaron Patterson, also to celebrate his thirtieth-first birthday. At that stage in her life, Sophie's parents were separated, and Calum no longer lived in their hometown of Edinburgh, so this time together was so precious to her. Calum, how...

Gah, what a stressful month: school ended and so did my regular work, our baby is imminent , and it became a crime to look Latino in america. I've also had a good bit of anxiety that I can't seem to shake, but that didn't stop my movie watching; this month I saw 33 films and ended with exactly 1300 films seen in total!  I hope all of you are well, I miss you all so much, and I am excited to get to see a lot of you soon for the baby shower! La Llorona [2019] Todos lloraban tu tierra, Llorona, tu tierra ensangrentada. Todos lloraban tu tierra, Llorona, tu tierra ensangrentada. ... Las balas callaron sus llantos, Llorona; desde esa vez no eres la misma. Las balas callaron sus llantos, Llorona, ¡y desde esa vez no eres la misma! What is more scary: the horrors of our imagination brought to life on screen, or the real life genocide of indigenous peoples & the weight of the accounting it demands? A woman who drowned her kids, or one who could do nothing but watch? The ghost y...

This month, I turned 29 years old, which I have mixed feelings about. I feel like everyone is always like, "Oh don't worry if you don't have it figured out, that's what your 20's are for" but my 30's are right on the horizon and I still have no idea what the fuck I'm doing—watching movies I guess.  I think the structure of last month threw me off a bit, so I only ended up seeing 29 total movies, oddly enough. In other news, we entered into the final trimester of our first pregnancy and are getting ready to welcome our baby boy into the world! We're registered at MyRegistry.com if you'd like to take a look. The Whale [2022] Brendan Fraser single handedly adds twenty percent to my rating, giving an earnest performance from his soul that I really loved and do not regret seeing. I've liked him for along time, and seeing him in a lead role again was wonderful; Hong Chau and him have great chemistry also. Second to that, I liked Simonsen's mu...