jazzanova across the universe 🎷 joysplosion is a surreal estate of mind ✨️ groove armada as the pathfinder

Wonderful, surprising and endlessly effervescent 🌬 the first act kept juggling my expectations of what kind of movie I was in. Lazy summer slacker -- high school hijinx -- giggling catastrophe. Then it settled into an against all the oddstacles School of Rock-esque journey to the heart of the jazz groove! So many memorable characters that you come to love and root for 🤗

The last 20 minutes had me stuck in danish anime crying for joy face 😹 a beautiful, heartswelling journey!

Otherworldly romance wearing flesh and blood

This was cinematic sorcery 🔮 profoundly moving -- just let humanity fucking thrive at its own pulse and discovery or taste the pain of 3-Iron

Watched on Tubi

Paperboy's a runaway seed with a secret. Cop is a broken hearted heavy hammer. Worlds collide and the pieces are reassembled in a mosaic of possible redemption ❤️‍🔥🦷

Amazing choreo from Donnie Yen. The detective was intriguing up to a point. The story is thrice baked rice cake overdone ♨️🫀

Long in the tooth and strong in the bone 🍖☠️

First loves and shopping lists 💕 meat cutes and power plays 🍖 love serpents under the water, watching us

A powerful and transformative jaunt through a sub culture that I've rarely seen explored this nuanced. Stirring and provocative ❤️‍🔥🏍❤️‍🩹

Mala blood-bead hurricano fight-of-passage!

Great screwball team up: Yautja reject, manic pixelated droid gurrl and a baby monkey-cat monster!!

Home is the underestimated creatures whose thunder propagates our lightning!

If you can get on it's pulse-wavelength, it's bombastic fun -- Oops, gotcha legs!

Sink your teeth into the flesh of midnight -- dance round the open chest flames of your ancestors -- and spit out the bitter seeds

my second viewing cinched all the pieces into a resplendent blood ribbon. a supernatural delta thriller flooding the chess board of light and dark with sensuality and power. not much technical to say, just reveling in the splendor of a soulful blockbuster that just fucking crackles with full body lightning

20 Films by Black Directors Challenge 2025 -- Ryan Coogler (if you haven't watched Fruitvale Station, do yourself a kindness & check it out)

SideNote: I watched the BASL version