What the hell I was thinking?

While I am eating my Toast Hawaii and listening to the most ridiculous song from Emilia Perez —which has something to do with sex change and Bangkok—I realize that I have to come back to earth and write about Smile 2 again. Yesterday, I bought it on Prime Video to support my guy Parker Finn and my girl Naomi Scott. For me, there is only one problem with this movie, and the one thing that ruins its rewatchability is that, like the first one, the second entry is too scary . I loved the first one—loved it! Saw it in the cinema, stood up, looked over at my friend, and he was giving me the smile . After that, I needed at least a year before I could revisit it. I watched the movie for a second time, and no matter how great I thought it was, the jump scares plus the concept just freaked me out. Now, the second movie blew me away. We saw it in our favorite small cinema, and I shit myself throughout the whole thing. Stood up, tried to catch up with my friend on the way out, opened the door of ...

I can’t believe that Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb can destroy the fate of a movie that’s actually pretty watchable. Wolf Man may not have the furriest werewolf, but it takes a more realistic (if you can even use that word here) approach to lycanthropy, with some stellar acting from Julia Garner, who absolutely carries the movie. I watched Apartment 7A , the prequel to Rosemary’s Baby , produced by none other than Mr. John Krasinski. Garner was incredible there as she is about to be in  The Fantastic Four: First Steps. The movie very much feels like a prequel to Rosemary’s Baby and fits incredibly well, with top-notch performances across the board. Another movie that has a low rating for what it actually accomplished. Now I have to go watch Ozark and Inventing Anna. In Wolf Man , what was interesting to see was the dynamic of the family, which is rarely explored anywhere—almost like a stigma. God forbid the dad stays home to take care of the family while the woman works. I loved Abb...

For some time after realizing that I was the problem in my own life and that the relationships breaking around me were due to my behavior, I felt oppressed, humiliated, and angry. After a while, I began to feel a sense of optimism about the control I was gaining over myself, the challenges I conquered, and the evolution of my character in the short time since I started working on myself. Fighting against 30 years of habits and patterns is no easy task, but the more you know exactly what you're trying to change, the easier it becomes to overcome it and, in the best cases, transform it into a positive result. I won’t lie – there’s still that anger inside me, from the fact that no one helped me when I was younger, when it was crucial to build a strong and healthy character. Instead, I was left to navigate unclear motivations and punishments, playing hide and seek, and creating a false persona driven by fear—trying to fit in and hide my true self. Not having the support of family and f...

 It seems like no one saw the connection between  Nosferatu  and  Heretic , where the directors present us with their cases against and for blind faith in different but ultimately similar ways, letting us know how we see the world. What tipped me off about what Eggers is doing is that I read the book a couple of months before the trailer for  Nosferatu  came out. In the book, Lucy Westerna (here Anna), the best friend of Mina (essentially Ellen, played by Lily-Rose Depp), had to be beheaded. When Lucy became a victim of Dracula, she turned into a vampire, leading to her beheading. But here, we see Aaron Taylor-Johnson coughing blood and kissing her dead body, without awakening her or the kids. I thought about why Eggers made this choice—to not show another vampire—and realized that Dracula, or here Count Orlock, is actually the plague itself. For me, he was part unstoppable imagination, part powerful hallucinations and feaver, some mental illness, and the r...