The things Aaron likes…
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Prime Target
Reactions: Smart, nerdy // Review: Prime Target is spy thriller that centers around a nerd studying maths at Cambridge (Leo Woodall – remember his sexy face from White Lotus Season 2?!). And spoiler alert, he’s gay in this! Although, it’s never a huge part of the plot, which is quite nice, actually. It’s just another…
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Flow
Reactions: Cute, Liked didn’t love // Review: I liked Flow. It’s about cute animals bonding during a calamity. Cute. Sweet. But, it felt like it was trying to do something it almost did but didn’t quite execute perfectly. Something, something, rebirth, renew, life is a cycle, yada yada.
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Dear San Francisco
Reactions: Wow. So fun. So San Francisco! // Review: Dear San Francisco is a cabaret-style acrobatic and circus show. It’s the “replacement show” for Beach Blanket Babylon. I’ll admit I wasn’t so sure about it from watching the sparse videos online. But I’m so glad I gave it a chance.
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Anora
Reactions: Heart-racing, eyes-glued // Review: Little did I know when I decided to finally rent and watch Anora that at that very same time, it was cleaning up over at the Oscars. Anora is racy. There’s lots of skin, boy and girl a like. And there’s sex and drugs and you worse. But it’s the…
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Life After Life
Reactions: Almost loved it but not quite // Review: This novel by Kate Atkinson was a best seller, and I can see why. It’s an enjoyable read with a clever premise and narrative style. But I wouldn’t say that I loved it and here’s why: It leverages the plot devices of multiple realities and reincarnation…
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Queer
Reactions: Meh // Review: As always with movies I don’t love, let’s start with what I did like. It was sexy, even if bizarrely so. I appreciated how awkward Daniel Craig played the main character.
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Captain America: Brave New World
Reactions: “Fine,” Forgettable // Review: This is another one of those reviews of something that I didn’t like that much. But, Captain America, Brave New World was… fine. It’s what you’d expect from Marvel these days: Filler content to keep the franchise going.
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Wicked
Reactions: Captivating, Powerful, Moving // Review: I read the book in 2003. I saw the musical in 2005 and 2016. And last weekend I finally saw the movie. I know this is going to make me loathed across the lands, but I never loved the musical. It veered away from the book and/or left out…
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Bridgerton
Reactions: Obsessed, Romantic, Swoon // Review: I have to acknowledge that Bridgerton is a sappy romance drama. I’ve never read or even seen the books, but I have to imaging they’d sit alongside the other romance novels at the supermarket and appeal to the same audience. But. The show is adorable. It’s sexy. It’s surprisingly…
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The Goldfinch
Reactions: Compelling, Page-turner // Review: A friend recommended this 2014 winner of the Pulitzer Prize to me. I had no idea what to expect and was a bit daunted at its 962 pages. And then I picked it up. The words captivate me. I couldn’t stop. 300 pages poured into my brain on the very…
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Over the Garden Wall
Reactions: Eerily Delighted, Magical and Dark // Review: I’d been looking for something short and easy to watch for a few minutes before heading upstairs to bed each night. And the Hulu algorithm read my mind (spooky, I know). The limited series tells the story of two half-brothers who get lost in the woods, after…
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Sharper
Reactions: Twist, twist, twist // Review: Does Julianne Moore ever fail to impress? I loved her in this. And Sebastian Stan was fantastic too. I enjoyed Sharper quite a lot. Add this to the list of quality A24 movies. I loved the chapter-style storytelling technique. It starts out as a love story. Then there’s a…
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Kneecap
Reactions: Fuck yes. Watch this movie! // Review: I had no idea what to expect when I started Kneecap. But it turned out to be, to my surprise and delight, a foreign language film. Most of the film is in Irish which was so freaking cool to me. The story revolves around a rap duo…
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Emelia Pérez
Reactions: Dazzling, Bold, Groundbreaking // Review: I knew almost nothing about Emelia Pérez before watching it, except that it was a musical. I’m not always a huge fan of musicals, but I decided to give it a go. And I’m so glad I did. I have to start by saying how much I loved Zoe…
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Castlevania Nocturne S2
Reactions: Vampires and demons, OH MY! // Review: Overall, YES. Just yes yes yes. I loved this season so much. I loved the original series. I liked season 1 of Nocturne. And I loved season 2. Two badass powerful women on the good side, two badass powerful demon women. And more Alucard. And Richter is…
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Back in Action
Reactions: Fun, Action-packed // Review: This won’t be one of my lengthier reviews. Not because I didn’t love this movie – I did! Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx lead this fun, family-friendly spy movie. It’s just under two hours of good-hearted fun. It’s about two former spies who left the secret agent life to raise…
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Reactions: Captivated, Fascinated, Pure wonderment // Review: The novel and show follow the story of the Buendía family, starting with José Arcadio and his wife Úrsula, cousins forbidden to marry who leave their village and wander in the jungle for years before founding the town of Macondo. We watch decades pass, Macondo grows, and the…
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Revelation Space
Reactions: Engrossed, 🤯 // Review: evelation Space is the first in a series of related books within the same universe. I read the standalone novel Chasm City recently, and I’m glad I did. It’s an important “world building” novel that makes Revelation Space make much more sense. Note: Chasm City is a delightful, hard-boiled detective…
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Queen Charlotte
Reactions: Cute, Sexy, Fun // Review: I’ve never watched Bridgerton. But in the past I have enjoyed shows like Hulu’s The Great and Amazon’s My Lady Jane. And you don’t have to know anything about Bridgerton to understand and enjoy Queen Charlotte. The show is set in two timeframes: One when Charlotte and Charles III…
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The Whale
Reactions: Not what I expected, poignant. // Review: I’ve been putting off watching The Whale for at least a year. It has been on “My list” forever. But every time I’ve seen it sitting there on my watch list, I think to myself, “That’s probably too depressing for how I feel right now,” and then…
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