I honestly hate how fast this summer has gone. I always say I need 3 Julys back-to-back before I'm ready for it to be August and this current summer has me feeling that more than ever. My psych program has relaxed a little lately in that I'm basically done with core classes, but my clinical practicums always overlap and I never really get a break from one to the next. This year was ideal because my placement was within walking distance of my house and during the summer I was done for the week by 3pm on Wednesday. This is still all unpaid, mind, so there's that challenge, but the upside is I had time to go on bike rides, read, rewatch Dexter and Twin Peaks, get an AMC A-List Membership, and play Guitar Hero Van Halen with my sons (they are so much better than me it's embarrassing).
Anyway. I'm holding onto the last 2 weeks of summer, I guess because I have enjoyed how my time has gone. There is plenty I have NOT enjoyed, clearly. Most of what's been going on in this country is very upsetting and continues to be. I think I went to the theater as much as I did because it helped me to both escape and regulate. I cried so much that first month, sometimes even at trailers. Here are some very short thoughts on everything I went to at Southdale, starting at the end of May.
1. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Favorite film this year. I had a good time writing about this one. Every setting so lovely; smart people + books + writing = wins. *****
![]() |
Go to therapy. Please. |
Sad and not one bit comical, although as a production it was put together fine. ***
3. Sinners
Loved the story, loved the people, loved the music. *****
4. Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
I was enjoying this very much until I got a text from my daughter that said: Can you come get me? I can't SEE. I left to get her at school, where she had somehow flung a piece of wood from a stick playing pickleball into her eye.
Her vision was fine in the end.
5. Bring Her Back
Is this body horror? So much visceral grossness. I also can't handle horror premises around child abuse. Again, put together well but crossed too many lines for me. ***
![]() |
Cousin Matthew as Hot Priest |
Also visceral but somehow more tolerable. Oh those Iowa Catholics! ****
7. Thunderbolts
Fine, I guess. Early vomiting sound design did not need to be that realistic, tbh. ****
8. Materialists
Meh characters, meh film. However, Dakota Johnson is very aesthetically pleasing. ***
9. The Life of Chuck
Not nearly enough Tom Hiddleston but whatever. I enjoyed the message. ****
10. 28 Years Later
Not nearly enough Ralph Fiennes but whatever. I enjoyed the message. ****
11. M3GAN 2.0
Not as scary as the original (or at all, really), but fun. Not fun driving home at 50 mph down side streets with Edina, Richfield, and Minneapolis all blaring their tornado sirens afterward. ***
12. Jurassic World Rebirth
I kind of felt bad for the dinosaurs, tbh. They were clearly rejected and some of them were . . . a bit difficult to look at. How many of these films do we need, really? ***
13. Ballerina
Fine, I guess. As with the John Wick series, I get very antsy with the slow, drawn-out deliveries. RED BULL! ***
![]() |
He's a punk rocker, yes he is |
This was good, although I wish I would have just enjoyed it in the moment rather than spending so much time trying to analyze it. The ending and song were the best combo they could have possibly picked. ****
15. I Know What You Did Last Summer
Fine. Not as smart as the first one but still nostalgic and fun. ***
16. Eddington
It wasn't bad, I just couldn't stand to be in that world for that long. Left after an hour.
17. The Naked Gun
I laughed. A lot. Pamela is cute-funny; Liam is serious-funny. ****
18. Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
I went back and really liked it. Claustrophobic submarine antics > Overlong plane chase antics ****
![]() |
She may have forgotten her long legs but remembered her sticks |
Favorite horror film ever in a theater. Scary AND funny. Lost count of how many times characters and viewers together asked WHAT THE FUCK?, but it was a lot. I sat by some excitable 20-year-old and her boyfriend and we had fun being the easiest jump-scare targets in the place. Gladys (Amy Madigan) was immediately familiar to me as Chanice (Uncle Buck) and Sam's mother Mary Taggart (ER). YIKES.*****
0 comments:
Post a Comment