beabadoobee – Fake It Flowers
Fake It Flowers is a promising debut LP that nonetheless sees beabadoobee remain frustratingly on the cusp of greatness.
Author: Callie Petch
Occasional Film Critic, Human Disaster, naïve progressive. (They/Them) Follow them on Letterboxd (@CalliePetch).
They Could Have Avoided This
On the disastrously botched treatment of cinemas, and the floor staff paying for top-level callous incompetence, during the ongoing pandemic.
Schemers
For a film about a punk wheeler-dealer sensibility to music promotion and a climax centred around the chaos of organising a heavy metal show, Dave McLean’s Schemers has more in common with MOR.
Weathering with You (Blu-Ray)
Weathering with You is an absolute mess. An often visually astonishing and idiosyncratic mess, but an absolute mess nonetheless.
What I’ve Been Watching: 15/09/20 – 21/09/20
BTS, Bill & Ted, Tim & Sigourney, and BoxTrollS.
So I’ve Finally Played Marvel’s Spider-Man…
Some loosely-structured thoughts sos my brain doesn’t try to guilt me over having spent the past fortnight almost solely playing one video game.
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway
If you can vibe with its earnest absurdism and sorta-intentional badness, Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is a hell of a trip.
The King of Staten Island
The King of Staten Island is exhausting and not in the way that Judd Apatow & Pete Davidson likely intended it to be.
TENET
TENET is a smug, dull, headache-inducing load of sound and fury signifying sod all.
The High Note
Despite suffering from the same identity insecurities as Late Night, The High Note ultimately succeeds as escapist comfort on the strength of its impeccable cast.
