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1 week ago | 
angelicabastien.substack.com | Angelica Jade Bastién
Midway through April, at the tail end of Aries season, I turned thirty-six. I never imagined getting to this age. Not from a fear of aging but an inability to be so forward-thinking. Until turning thirty, I genuinely believed I would have killed myself by this point. After last year was marked by heartbreak and hard-won growth, I greeted this new year of life brimming with desire and my eyes trained toward new horizons.
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3 weeks ago | 
vulture.com | Angelica Jade Bastién
It’s a film that will haunt me just as much as it will keep me wondering who Ryan Coogler wants to be on the other side of Creed and Black Panther. I have always felt that the South gives America back to itself, ripping illusions from truth. When I see Looney Tunes images of Bugs Bunny sawing off Florida, as if relinquishing land below the Mason-Dixon Line will save our fractured society, my heart breaks.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Angelica Jade Bastién
NowLudwig Göransson has scored some of the most visually and emotionally arresting films of the last decade, including both Black Panther films, as well as Tenet, Oppenheimer, and others. The two-time Oscar winner (who has also earned several Grammys and an Emmy as well) has a new movie out on Friday: …
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2 months ago | 
vulture.com | Angelica Jade Bastién
The slick thriller starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett manages to make monogamy look hot. That’s how good this Steven Soderbergh film is. Black Bag begins with Michael Fassbender’s back to the camera in an unblinking tracking shot from city street to subterranean club, and it is immediately clear that I am in the hands of a master. In this case, Steven Soderbergh, in his second film of the year, after the ghost story Presence.
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2 months ago | 
vulture.com | Angelica Jade Bastién
In adapting a Stephen King short story, director-writer Osgood Perkins clearly delights in crafting explosive, gory kills meant to spark a laugh more than terrify. Over the course of the film’s hour and 38 minutes, Perkins’s thinly drawn characters are set aflame, their heads are turned to vague viscera by bowling balls or made jelly by wild trampling horses, there is splatter from unforeseen shotgun wounds and unspooled intestines pulled taught by surprise harpoons to the gut.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
vulture.com | Angelica Jade Bastién
For months, cinephiles have claimed to find substance in a certain body-horror movie. I am politely asking you to look elsewhere. About 40 minutes into A Different Man, the face of Edward Lemuel, the striving actor played with wounded insecurity by Sebastian Stan, begins to fall off in reddened, meaty chunks. Edward is a man with neurofibromatosis, which manifests most noticeably as tumors on his cheeks, forehead, and chin.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
vulture.com | Angelica Jade Bastién
It’s almost cruel to compare Star Trek: Section 31 to the series Deep Space Nine, which created its core concept. What Michelle Yeoh offers as a star, on the surface, is exactly what Star Trek needs. In the early years of her career — through Hong Kong action films like Police Story 3 (1992) and Yes, Madam! (1985) into works now embedded in the Western imagination like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) — she cultivated the ability to project capability, intelligence, and badassery.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
vulture.com | Angelica Jade Bastién
Are you paying attention to this man’s Watson press tour? Because you should be. When I was still in girlhood, my mind was blown to learn what kind of man white women imagined when using the descriptor “tall, dark, and handsome.” Wait, they’re just thinking of a strong-jawed guy who isn’t blond? I can’t relate. For my entire life, the epitome of tall, dark, and handsome has been Morris Chestnut, an actor who looks as if he was sculpted from marble by the hands of a loving and generous god.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Angelica Jade Bastién
By the end, it’s clear this film about a female CEO embroiled in an affair with a young intern is less scintillating and more a chilly, half-formed women’s picture. Warning: This piece involves description of Babygirl’s ending. Spoilers ahead. Babygirl is bookended by the orgasms of Romy Mathis, a highly visible CEO of a tech company with the kind of moneyed, idyllic life whose enviable surface always hides a stunning lack of fulfillment.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
ecartelera.com | Pedro Garcia |Pedro J. García |Peter Bradshaw |Luis Martinez |Angelica Jade Bastién
Escribe tu propia crítica de 'Pobres criaturas'Sin spoilers Eso me dijeron, cuando dije que no me había gustado la película. "Eso es por que no la has entendido ". Hay quien dijo que hablaba de la ciencia.La ciencia es algo muy serio e importante.Pero yo no supe captarla, en esta película, ya que me pareció absurda y soez.(la película, no la ciencia).Leer másSin spoilers Estamos ante ese tipo de películas que podríamos calificar con una sola palabra: bizarra.
