Diary
May 2026
Ready or Not
THE RED WEDDING, except it's Margot Robbie's doppelganger and some crazy ass satanic rich family.
Aftersun
If there's any actor I relate to the most it's Paul Mescal. The man has a gift for making you feel tragedy without ever announcing it. I didn't take my eyes off the screen once. I lived every second of it and felt completely empty throughout and after. I kept staring at the screen like 20 minutes after it ended. The dad-daughter dynamic is the heart of everything. The way they're close, the way they laugh, the way she sees him as her whole world while he's quietly disappearing there's nothing more beautiful and more painful at the same time. This film made me realize something about myself. There's something in me that only a daughter could fix. That unconditional love where all you have to be is present, just a dad I want that someday more than I knew. Aftersun doesn't tell you what to feel. It just sits with you until you figure it out yourself.
Ocean's Twelve
Stacked cast, fun ride, cool ass movie. Not as good as the first one but that's a high bar and this still delivers. The kind of film where you're just happy to watch these people in the same room together doing their thing you don't need it to be perfect. Not like theh best thing you'll ever see but Worth watching.
Little Women
At first i thought it was just Timothée Chalamet being a friendzoned twink for two hours. It turned out to be more than that. Actually decent a little slow in places but the story holds up and the casting is genuinely stacked, one of the best ensembles ever Visually it's warm and beautiful in a way that fits the whole thing. What makes it stand out even more is the year it came out. 2019 was around when movies started going downhill and Little Women somehow didn't get that memo.
Pride & Prejudice
"you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you." One of the most romantic films ever made and not a single kiss. I've only seen that work twice in my life and this is one of them. It actually makes it better when love doesn't need physical touch to feel real, you know it's the actual thing and not just lust wearing a costume. Keira Knightley's accent and elegance carry every scene she's in. The kind of presence that makes you forget you're watching a period drama. The hardest part was accepting Rosamund Pike as a good person after Gone Girl permanently broke something in my brain. She plays a psychopath too well.
Dunkirk
This is not a review. This is an appreciation. I watched every single Christopher Nolan film from start to finish: Following to Oppenheimer, and I saved Dunkirk for last. Seeing that 100% hit felt like closing a book you didn't want to end. Dunkirk might be the most intense film I've ever seen. I was on edge and stressed for the entire runtime eating my cuticles without even realizing it, which rarely happens. Hans Zimmer's soundtrack alone gives me goosebumps every time the man understands tension better than anyone ever lived . And Nolan understood something most war directors don't: you don't need to explain war, you need to make someone feel it. No backstory, no speeches, just survival stripped down to its bones. Tom Hardy carrying a whole film behind a mask again. Cillian Murphy traumatized again. Some things are just right. What makes Nolan untouchable isn't one thing it's everything together. The casting, the stories, the timelines, the dialogue, the obsession with doing it practically when everyone else went digital. There's no one doing it like him. Not even close. Now waiting for The Odyssey. He'll always be my favorite. This was the perfect film to end on.
April 2026
Following
Watched this just to see where Nolan started. Should've known it would already be confusing and brilliant at the same time. Three timelines, black and white, and a story that confusing all in his very first film. You could already see exactly what he was going to become. The B&W adds another layer of boredom on top of the slow moments but if you pay attention it rewards you. Decent first step for a budget of 6000$ from someone who was never going to make a simple movie.
Insomnia
Watched this at 7am with no sleep, and zero focus basically the same condition Al Pacino was in. Somehow finished it. The pacing drags more than it should for a Nolan film but the story holds up. He knows how to build tension even when he's going slow. Robin Williams playing a criminal feels genuinely wrong in the best way. Your brain keeps waiting for him to smile and say something warm and he never does. That discomfort is the whole point. Decent film. Nolan being a genius as usual.
Funny Games
I don't think the games were that funny -_- Paul is one of the most punchable characters ever put on screen. The whole film you're waiting for someone to just end him and the movie knows that it uses it against you deliberately and that's the most infuriating part. The fourth wall breaks are the one thing that actually works. Being directly addressed by someone doing what they're doing is a specific kind of uncomfortable that sticks with you. Never trust your neighbors. Especially the ones asking for eggs.
The Monkey
"Shit man, that sucks." Yeah, more like the whole movie sucks. I came to a realization watching horror movies does absolutely nothing for me. No fear, no laughs, no entertainment, no emotion of any kind. Just me and a screen existing in the same room together. The Monkey didn't help change that.
Daisies
Feels like it was filmed at 10 FPS and staged more like a theater show than a movie. I genuinely have no idea what this film is trying to say. The two of them seeking attention while nobody gave a shit and then turning into philosophers because of it that's the only part that made sense to me.. I love their laugh tho. Other than that it's a weird movie Don't let the high rating fool you. It's just girls glazing other girls.
Ex Machina
We'll probably see stuff like this IRL in the near future that's the only interesting part. Everything else though? 90% of this movie is booooring as hell. The soundtrack is straight out of those 8-hour YouTube sleep videos and it worked, I almost fell asleep watching it. The 10% that was actually interesting was the plot twist but it's not enough to save anything that came before it. Another glazed movie that disappointed.
The Bride!
The hate on this film is so forced it's embarrassing. If the exact same movie with the exact script was made by an 'actual director' people would be calling it a masterpiece the only difference is Maggie Gyllenhaal made it and apparently that's enough to dismiss it. Same people who spent last year calling one battle after another a masterpiece are now complaining about a 'weak musical' except it's not even a musical. "Brain attack". The visuals are stunning, Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley give performances that are genuinely oscar worthy (by nowadays standards), and the film is fun and emotional exactly when it wants to be. Don't let the noise decide what you watch.
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
This is like Asking David Lynch and Tarantino to make a Marvel it's chaotic, confusing, and somehow it works. The first few episodes feel like someone scrambled your brain on purpose. But once the pieces start clicking into place the whole thing becomes genuinely entertaining. Oscar Isaac carrying two completely different personalities is so fucking impressive and it's the reason this works at all. Needs a second season badly. Left too much unfinished.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Fani movie. I like.
The Grandmother
When you’re so lonely you have to hallucinate just to create a spark of joy in a house full of abuse. David Lynch has always been deranged in the best way possible the movie is kinda creepy, but for a budget of barely $7k, he truly made the most of it. It’s a surrealist autopsy of how a broken home forces a child to retreat into their own dark imagination
Come and See
I wanted my #500th movie to be something special, and Come and See did not disappoint. It is a masterpiece of trauma. We watch a silly boy with an autistic laugh, And pure innocent excitement transform into a paralyzed soldier who can barely speak. By the end, his face has aged 70 years in a single week he doesn't even lookk human anymore he looks like a living monument to war. I watched the whole thing feeling nothing and genuinely thought something was wrong with me, like I became heartless somewhere along the way. Then Lacrimosa started playing over the real black and white footage of real Nazi atrocities and it literally gave me goosebumps. This film completely changed how I see Hitler and Germans in general. Burning 628 villages to the ground elders, children, animals ,everything... that's fascism at its finest and it's so fucked up. "Come and See" that's exactly what the movie does it lets you see, It delivered everything it was made for and for that it earned its place as one of my favorites. A Great movie but I'm Never watching it again.
Van Helsing
Van Helsing, Dracula, and Frankenstein all in one film somehow it works. An ambitious mashup that has no right to be as entertaining as it is. The visuals are dark, sometimes too dark to actually see what's going on, but the atmosphere more than makes up for it. You feel the world even when you can't fully see it. The ending hit differently than expected. Van Helsing completing his mission and going back to what he always was alone. No glory, no peace, just the burden of being the guy who does what no one else can and walks away with nothing. Sad endings always tell the truth.
Gravity
Watched this more as background noise than an actual film. Zoned out more times than I can count. The visuals are cool probably some of the best space cinematography ever made. But all that beauty is completely wasted on a story that gives you nothing to hold onto. No tension that actually lands, no characters you care about, just Sandra Bullock floating and panicking for 90 minutes. It wasn't horrible. It wasn't good either. It's just a very expensive sleeping pill.
Final Destination
Corny
