“Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.”

This film for me is animation in one of its most perfect forms, and I cannot emphasize that highly enough. Just the simple scenes of Ashitaka traveling through the forests and mountains on Yakul are enough to leave you emotional and in awe at how many hours and creative drive it took for these animators to put ink to paper and draw…

“No. You're coming with me. I'll not leave you here, I've got to save you.”
“You already have, Luke.”

This is a late quiet little birthday present that I’m giving myself, and it’s one that I don’t think needs much explaining or a huge essay, as is the case with almost every movie that I review from my Top 100. It’s plain and simple, really; I love this movie so much. It is near and dear to my heart and…

I thought it would be fitting to watch this before Backrooms tomorrow, considering the original Exit 8 game was based off of the Backrooms creepypasta and video series, with both properties having their horror based on liminal spaces, a personal fear of mine. However, while Backrooms is more in line with found footage analog horror, Exit 8 differs by combining the concept of liminal space with the concept of anomalies (another popular trope in analog horror), and it helped pave…

Embrace it.

That’s probably the best advice I can offer when trying to consume the absurdism that is I Love Boosters. Don’t try to question it, reason with it, or dissect it like it’s a science project. Just embrace it. When I tell you that this film has one of the most insane third acts I’ve ever seen come out of the 2020s, and possibly even this century, that should be more than enough for you to sit down and…