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Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner [2001]- 6/5/26


Just watched this with a few friends. What a fascinating film! From the wikipedia on this film: "directed by Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk and produced by his company Isuma Igloolik Productions. It was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in the Inuktitut language." If you are able to watch this movie, I highly encourage you to. It is an incredible piece of cinema, with such an engaging story. I really liked this movie despite it being a film that does not shy away from what may challenge an auidence. I'll have to try to formulate better thoughts and I intend to watch this movie again, but for now I just think this is a movie more people should be talking about. Really good movie. Incredible soundtrack, incredible acting, really incredible cinematography. It was very fun to watch this movie with some pals too.


I Love Boosters [2026]- 5/29/26 / Sorry To Bother You rambles


I LOVE THIS MOVIE! I actually still am so in love with Boots Riely's work, I'm being so serious. Sorry To Bother You really took me by storm when I watched it in 2018 and I rewatched it last night and I completely remember why. Boots Riley is making films against capitialism, showing that the people have power and focusing on the fact that we are all under one struggle. Sorry To Bother You and I Love Boosters are in conversation in a way I haven't seen in a filmmakers work since idk. I am saying this all off the cuff and even though I went to film school I feel like I don't know what I'm talking about when I start trying to tackle what Boots Riley seems to be trying to talk about in his films. I feel I need to read up on some theory and become smarter so I can explain to people how I feel there has been no two films like I Love Boosters and Sorry To Bother You, especially if you keep both of them in mind as like. Sisters, brothers, lovers, what have you.


In some ways, I think I Love Boosters takes the absurdity of Sorry To Bother You and takes it one step up. I really am on the edge of my seat to see if Boots Riley does another film and what would that be like. I don't even think that if he went in a completely different direction I'd be mad, I just hope the adbsuridity and audacity and boldness of it stays strong. The soundtrack of this movie was divine, I absolutely adored the editing of the film, and Keke Palmer was SO GOOD. Everyone in the film was so good. It's just such a good movie. I hope that people will keep their hearts open to I Love Boosters, as again, if I'm going to worry about The Backrooms being considered a "challenging" film, I have to flag this as a film I worry people will think is TOO weird. I mean, it will probably get the same treatment of Sorry To Bother You where it's not really talked about unless you're in certain circles and those certain circles will either really love it or really hate it. Which is a shame. Sorry To Bother You should still be talked about, and I hope we do not move culturally on from I Love Boosters. I also think this movie has something akin to Everything, Everywhere, All At Once too.

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The Backrooms [2026]- 5/29/26


The other day I saw two films with my companion. The first was The Backrooms. I knew going in some stuff about the Backrooms and I have seen the original YouTube Kane Parsons Backrooms, which I honestly think whether or not you know anything about the Backrooms going in, it will be a fun time. I really enjoyed how the film cut between found footage sections, I think it would have been cool to have the whole thing in this style, but I found it effective nonetheless. After discussing with my companion about my thoughts and their thoughts, I think this movie is one I need to watch again to truly parse out what I feel. I think there are some... troubling most likely unintentional aspects of The Backrooms that may have been worked out with a tighter script. I think there could have been a better established relationship between Clark and his therapist & honestly a better establishment of what I will call a certain twist so that I can avoid spoilers for now. Maybe when the movie is out a bit longer I'll talk about my thoughts at a deeper level. Also I'm sorry Mark Duplass but I think we could've cut your scenes in order to do this. But it was a solid film! I'm glad it has me thinking. I worry people won't like it because they will call this a "challenging" film or a one that's "hard to understand". I forget that I cooked my brain in an irreversible way in middle school. And that even though in my old ripe age of nearly 28, yes I am much better about consuming horror that's not gonna hurt me and I'm better about it all, I still have seen movies I wouldn't willingly watch today.

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