“Whatever you end up doing, love it. The way you loved the projection booth when you were little.“

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How lucky are we to be able to just go and see a movie at a moment’s notice? To leave the weight of the world at the door and step into a world of celluloid dreams, and then take a little piece of that world home with us as we leave. There’s such a unique magic in the medium of…

Pacific Rim is perhaps the biggest love letters to the genre to ever exist; Del Toro combines all of the best stylistic and thematic aspects of the mecha and kaiju classics of the late 20th century and merges them into arguably one of the best blockbusters of the 2010s. It’s been a couple years since I’ve seen it, and going into this theatrical rerelease, I was wondering if it was gonna hold up, revisiting it as an adult. Not only…

fun fact, while Kane Parsons is definitely most known for his Backrooms web series, I was first introduced to him through his Attack on Titan fan animations HAHAHAHA those were super cool

But yeah this is a fantastic cinematic debut for Parsons, who shines the most with his direction when he gets to take the found footage style of the web series and make it bigger and bolder. I rewatched the first short film in the web series right before…

Treated myself to a rewatch of my favorite movie ever to celebrate my 1000th Letterboxd diary entry, 1000th Letterboxd review, AND my 25th birthday tomorrow :)

A true zenith of what the American blockbuster can be and just a perfectly constructed film down to its bones, it’s genuinely amazing how growing up with Jurassic Park has only deepened my love and appreciation for it with every year that passes. From characters waxing poetic about the hubris of mankind in the face…