Loki is wildly uneven (and it certainly feels like they stretched this story out as far as they could to fill six episodes), but its season opener and season closer are both so strong - and the character work for Loki and Sylvie is so solid - that I’m ultimately positive on the show as a whole, even if I feel that there’s considerable room to improve in the future.

Certain scripts could’ve used sharpening up (Episode 2 and Episode…

At risk of oversharing on Letterboxd, this miniseries meant a lot to me for many reasons. For starters, though I was a bit older than Maddy when my mom was going through something similar, I’m the child of an eventual single mother who had to escape abuse for the sake of the safety of herself and her children, and while some of my youngest and saddest memories have faded as the years go by, the feelings haven’t. 

The horror I…

Dopesick is one of the most emotionally devastating series I’ve seen in quite some time. Occasionally, its reach is greater than its grasp, and it’s not free of heavy-handed dialogue entirely, but it’s full of undeniably riveting righteous fury, and the ensemble is exceptionally cast, with each actor earning your engagement in spite of the slight structural stumbles here or there. Michael Keaton is going to deservedly win that Emmy, but Kaitlyn Dever is just as astounding, again asserting herself…

The Dropout doesn’t dramatically defy the docudrama miniseries formula by any means, but it doesn’t really have to thanks to still reliably riveting writing throughout and a sensational leading turn from Amanda Seyfried, who makes the task of characterizing and consolidating Elizabeth Holmes’ endless eccentricities and contradictions in one performance look like child’s play. It’s almost definitely the best - and most defining - work of her career so far, and I’d be utterly shocked if a plethora of accolades…

Though it kinda petered out towards the end - with a final episode that felt more like an epilogue that could’ve been tacked onto the penultimate one, instead of needing to take up its own forty minutes - I was largely pretty impressed by The Girl from Plainville overall, particularly in how it added complications and complexities to the characters of the center of this tragic tale. It’s no easy to task to try and help us empathize with -…

Idk y’all, I thought this kinda slapped???

I’ve found the MCU Disney+ shows to be a… bit of a mixed bag so far. You’ve got the great (WandaVision), the good (Hawkeye), the middling - for me - (Loki), the afterthought (What If…?), and the dumpster fire (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier). I was worried Moon Knight was gonna be a real whiff after some of the first reviews were more mixed than expected, but, to my surprise, each episode…

I can’t believe I’ve seen this movie six times and no moment has lost its magic, every emotional beat hits just as hard, and I’m still overcome with chills scene after scene after scene.

When Lo’ak and Payakan first bond with one another.

When Quaritch and his men burn the village of the first tribe they interrogate.

When Ronal’s spirit sister lets out one last wail before she’s murdered by the whalers.

When Lo’ak and the kids realize that Payakan’s…

Maybe one of the most rewatchable movies ever made??? I was absolutely obsessed with the original and saw it four times in theaters, but this was my fifth viewing of The Way of Water, and I already have a sixth watch planned for Saturday. Gotta get up to eight so I can I’ve spent 24 hours on Pandora (though I would also watch this on a loop if I could).

I’ve accepted that I not only unabashedly (and unapologetically) adore Avatar…

Just as flawless (to me) the fourth time.

I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to stop thinking about how the final scene makes me feel, and every time I rewatch this, I think it’ll affect me less, but somehow, it hits even harder? I think part of it is because, the more times I see Avatar: The Way of Water, the more time I spend with this family - and the more little details I pick up on…