well... I spoke to the man who got a vasectomy during the earthquake
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wow this pseudonymous person has a good point! ppl should stop saying this...

and this feels like forever ago now lol but Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor make the brash mayhem of ROAD HOUSE (the remake) much better than it should be theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/…

for those freaked by the 'can friendship survive babies?' article, there's Pamela Adlon's Babes, which has some sour notes but great performances from Ilana Glazer & Michelle Buteau navigating friendship pre and post kids theguardian.com/culture/2024/m…

I admittedly did not know what I was in for with Kyle Mooney's Y2K and alternately loved it (fun AOL dial-up nostalgia) and hated it (bit wears v thin, bloody mess) theguardian.com/culture/2024/m…

Dev Patel's directorial debut with the action thriller MONKEY MAN is ambitious and promising, also confused and near relentlessly grim theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/…

THE FALL GUY is a delight, Ryan Gosling again with the comic precision, go see it and enjoy theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/…

I have once again been remiss at posting but — SXSW reviews! First up: Alex Garland's CIVIL WAR, which makes the...interesting choice to avoid politics. Very effective on the level of adrenaline, not so much on emotions theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/…

PLAYERS (60% #CherryScore ) 'may trip on its gimmicks at times, but there’s enough lived experience beneath the rapid-fire quips to work. For a streaming economy romcom...it’s batting far above average.' - Adrian Horton, @guardianus

🔗: thecherrypicks.com/films/players

THE STARLING GIRL, Laurel Parmet’s searing yet sensitive drama — starring the extraordinary Eliza Scanlen — about a 17-year-old’s complex coming of age in a Christian fundamentalist community, is now streaming on Paramount+. Criminally underseen last year, a strong feature debut.

I'm mixed on The Iron Claw — the second half has the feel of a grim procession — but gotta respect the work of Zac Efron amid a group of great performances
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still working through my thoughts on May December, a strange, beguiling take on tabloid fascinations that left me cold
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