Break Down Cinema
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A portfolio blog of primarily Film Studies essays, along with more casual Letterboxd movie reviews.
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A movie that dares to ask, ‘what if a man was raised by penguins and had a funny nose?’
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A ★★★ review of Batman Returns (1992)
Batman Returns (Burton, 1992) actually improves upon one of the weaknesses of Tim Burton's first Batman movie (1989). In this sequel, Bruce Wayne/Batman (Michael Keaton) gets a bit more screen time, a...
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January 10, 2026 at 11:42 PM
A movie that dares to ask, ‘what if a man was raised by penguins and had a funny nose?’
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Literally threatening to murder her
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Literally threatening to murder her
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X is a Nazi cp app. Why any is still on there is beyond me.
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
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January 10, 2026 at 5:52 PM
X is a Nazi cp app. Why any is still on there is beyond me.
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Nobody is saying, care about Palestine instead of care about how we live here. Caring about Palestine is actually deeply connected to caring about how we live here. And even if it weren't why should we be ok with being bound up in harming people there?
January 10, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Nobody is saying, care about Palestine instead of care about how we live here. Caring about Palestine is actually deeply connected to caring about how we live here. And even if it weren't why should we be ok with being bound up in harming people there?
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Conservatives have so throughly dehumanized anyone not like them that they really are just out here cheering on the extrajudicial murder of an American citizen too. She’s just a queer liberal woman, all reasons she’s not really human, so of course she was fine for her to be murdered by the state.
January 10, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Conservatives have so throughly dehumanized anyone not like them that they really are just out here cheering on the extrajudicial murder of an American citizen too. She’s just a queer liberal woman, all reasons she’s not really human, so of course she was fine for her to be murdered by the state.
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I went on the Trashfuture podcast to talk about the Levy Review, the NHS’ latest disgraceful attempt to paper over the violence it does to trans people
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*PREVIEW* What a Pickle! feat. Abi Thorn | TRASHFUTURE
It’s Abi! And we’re talking about the current state of trans healthcare in the U.K. Also, we discuss the quantum leap the global fascist international has taken, the U.K. government equivocating over ...
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January 10, 2026 at 10:52 AM
I went on the Trashfuture podcast to talk about the Levy Review, the NHS’ latest disgraceful attempt to paper over the violence it does to trans people
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Feels good to get this off my chest, ngl.
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73 Yards: The Most Overrated Doctor Who Story of All Time
I have stopped enjoying Doctor Who in general, and I think I can trace all the reasons why back to this episode that people keep raving about.
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January 10, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Feels good to get this off my chest, ngl.
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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy haters being totally normal and not transphobic and ableist while commenting about a show they haven’t even seen.
January 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy haters being totally normal and not transphobic and ableist while commenting about a show they haven’t even seen.
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So instead of fixing the problem, they instead just made it so only those with disposable income can access the CP generator. Seems worse…
January 9, 2026 at 3:09 PM
So instead of fixing the problem, they instead just made it so only those with disposable income can access the CP generator. Seems worse…
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The world's richest man runs a subscription-based automated service that removes clothing from photographs of children.
Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children -
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:58 AM
The world's richest man runs a subscription-based automated service that removes clothing from photographs of children.
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I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.
Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children -
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:17 AM
I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.
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ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink.
Two Americas.
Two Americas.
January 8, 2026 at 8:06 PM
ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink.
Two Americas.
Two Americas.
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Absolutely vile disgusting gestapo assholes.
Right after Renée Good’s disgusting murder, a ICE goon was filmed kicking her memorial candles.
Absolutely vile.
Absolutely vile.
January 8, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Absolutely vile disgusting gestapo assholes.
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Even if having “pronouns in her bio” were a bad thing, the shooter wasn’t looking at her bio, he was looking at her FUCKING FACE. DID SHE HAVE PRONOUNS ON HER FUCKING FACE, YOU NAZI FUCK?
Jesse Watters highlights that Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE, had "pronouns in her bio" and "leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage"
January 8, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Even if having “pronouns in her bio” were a bad thing, the shooter wasn’t looking at her bio, he was looking at her FUCKING FACE. DID SHE HAVE PRONOUNS ON HER FUCKING FACE, YOU NAZI FUCK?
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Based on what her mother said, she wasn’t even a protester, it looks like she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and freaked out when the ICE agents pulled a gun on her.
She had young children too 😢
She had young children too 😢
"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
‘She was an amazing human being:’ Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent
Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.
www.startribune.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Based on what her mother said, she wasn’t even a protester, it looks like she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and freaked out when the ICE agents pulled a gun on her.
She had young children too 😢
She had young children too 😢
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They murdered this woman in cold blood in broad daylight.
This is the video.
January 7, 2026 at 6:05 PM
They murdered this woman in cold blood in broad daylight.
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From another video I saw, the victim's wife was crying outside of the car distraught with a dog. They murdered a queer legal observer in broad daylight.
CBP just shot a woman "in the face" as she attempted to drive away in Minneapolis. Unconfirmed reports are that she's dead.
January 7, 2026 at 6:00 PM
From another video I saw, the victim's wife was crying outside of the car distraught with a dog. They murdered a queer legal observer in broad daylight.
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We have the video. These are just brazen lies by DHS. They murdered her in cold blood.
January 7, 2026 at 6:11 PM
We have the video. These are just brazen lies by DHS. They murdered her in cold blood.
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Four governments since Theresa May left office have all promised to bring forward a ban.
Labour committed to a comprehensive, trans-inclusive ban in its 2024 manifesto. After 18 months in power, no draft bill has been published.
Labour committed to a comprehensive, trans-inclusive ban in its 2024 manifesto. After 18 months in power, no draft bill has been published.
January 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Four governments since Theresa May left office have all promised to bring forward a ban.
Labour committed to a comprehensive, trans-inclusive ban in its 2024 manifesto. After 18 months in power, no draft bill has been published.
Labour committed to a comprehensive, trans-inclusive ban in its 2024 manifesto. After 18 months in power, no draft bill has been published.
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If you're a trans person in Illinois sent a cease and desist by Trump's government, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].
January 7, 2026 at 5:19 PM
If you're a trans person in Illinois sent a cease and desist by Trump's government, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].
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I wish getting access to gender affirming care had been as easy as this asshole and other conservatives make it out to be. The amount of insurance and medical bullshit I’ve had to deal with just to see a fucking doctor who doesn’t believe me anyways but takes my $0 copay is disgusting.
Trump: "Transgender for everyone! Bring your kids in, we're gonna change the sex of your child. Just send them our way. In some cases, like in Minnesota, they don't even tell the parents. Nobody believes it when I say it. They operate on the kid, they don't tell the parents. It's not believable."
January 6, 2026 at 9:41 PM
I wish getting access to gender affirming care had been as easy as this asshole and other conservatives make it out to be. The amount of insurance and medical bullshit I’ve had to deal with just to see a fucking doctor who doesn’t believe me anyways but takes my $0 copay is disgusting.
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Oy
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
January 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Oy
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January 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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