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Susannah The Tired Jun 9, 2023

Goddammit, Attenborough! 😭

The music soars to the final speech, as I collapse into a sobbing, struggling to breathe, mess of tears & heart pain:

"This is our home & this is the moment. We have just enough time & just enough nature left, to save our wild isles for our children & for future generations."

Link - My ★★★★★ TV review of Save Our Wild Isles on #Letterboxd https://boxd.it/4lRbEX

#LetterboxdFriday #Tv #UK #ClimateCrisis #Climate #Wildlife #Nature

A ★★★★★ review of Wild Isles (2023)

Wild Isles Special - Save our Wild Isles: Goddammit, Attenborough!!! 😭 The music soars to the final speech, as I collapse into a sobbing, struggling to breathe, mess of tears & abject heart pain: "This is our home & this is the moment. We have just enough time & just enough nature left, to save our wild Isles for our children & for future generations." Regardless of the amount of tears this one might create, do not miss this beautiful, powerful, yet bittersweet special - available, sadly, only on iPlayer - not the TV. Imagine being David Attenborough though, on the frontline of nature

Susannah The Tired Jun 7, 2023

#KittenWatches Wolfwalkers (2020) by Cartoon Saloon

I don't give out many 5 ⭐ ratings but WOW - this is purrfection!

This magical, stunningly hand drawn, colonisation-judging, furry, Irish folklore outing is utterly divine!! I'll be surprised & impressed if this movie doesn't end up being my favourite new watch of 2023!

Watch out, #Disney!

Link - Read my ★★★★★ #MovieReview of Wolfwalkers on #Letterboxd
https://boxd.it/4ltuFH

#Movies #Film #KwFurries #Animation #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon

A ★★★★★ review of Wolfwalkers (2020)

I adore Wolfwalkers! It's perfectly my vibe in both story & art - an adventure I want to go on! I'm taken aback by the level of both beauty & meaning in this unique, powerful piece of cinema! It simultaneously creates a fun, happy adventure and tells a brutal story of xenophobic colonisation, of climate damage & species extinction. It's so layered - & clever as hell for it! It's a story of found family - between Robyn, a little English girl living in the crushingly tyrannical town, and Mebh, a young Irish Wolfwalker, who lives in the surrounding forest. And wow, do they

Susannah The Tired Jun 2, 2023

#KittenWatches Help (2021)

Help is set in a care home during the first months of the pandemic, in MY city! It capably & heartbreakingly highlights the true damage of ableist #covid policy & omg, it hit my trauma as a care reciever/high risk person painfully, but cathartically!

My review took a very long time to write & was a work of both love & trauma.

Link: My ★★★★★ Letterboxd review of Help
https://letterboxd.com/kitteninacave/film/help-2021/1/

#Disability #Representation #LetterboxdFriday #Movies #CovidIsNotOver

A ★★★★★ review of Help (2021)

Help was the most harrowing, brutal, yet validating, movie watching experience of my life! It's set in Liverpool (my city!) during the first few months of the pandemic, in a care home (I am a home care receiver)! It's as close to home regarding my deep trauma, as I will likely ever find in a movie. Two incredible friends (DisMoviePod & Adam) watched with me, or I would never have been able to make myself do it. But I am so glad I did! This movie needed to be made. I'm shocked it WAS made. And it needs to be widely

Susannah The Tired Apr 14, 2023

#KittenWatches World War Z

WWZ has some of my fave epic zombie scenes, thou the movie as a whole doesn't live up to them. But... a zombie apoc that didn't wanna infect ME, a very ill person? I'd stand in the middle of a Z infested street screaming "TELL ME IT'S ALL IN MY HEAD NOW, YOU FUCKERS!!", cackling in laughter!

Cos fuck, maybe I can actually survive THIS one? 😂

Link - My full ★★★ review on #Letterboxd https://boxd.it/47rja9

#Horror #HorrorMovies #MEcfs #KwZombies #LetterboxdFriday

A ★★★ review of World War Z (2013)

World War Z has some of my fave epic zombie scenes, thou the movie as a whole can't quite live up to them. (But... a zombie apoc that didn't wanna infect ME, as a very ill person? I'd stand in the middle of the Z infested street screaming "TELL ME IT'S ALL IN MY HEAD NOW, YOU FUCKERS!!" whilst cackling in laughter! Cos fuck me, maybe I can actually survive this one? 😂) But yeah. I just wanted more from this one. Especially given the source material. Also I really wish I could get behind Brad Pitt's casting here... But

Susannah The Tired Apr 14, 2023

My #LastFourWatched movies for #LetterboxdFriday!

It's been a pretty great movie week actually!

My name's the same over there! Especially looking for other disabled/ND/ill folks! :)

#Movies #Horror #HorrorMovies #Film #Anime #Documentary #KittenWatches #Letterboxd

Susannah The Tired Apr 12, 2023

Woah. I found out there's a movie set in my city about a caregiver in a care home, during the pandemic...

This might be horrifically close to home in many ways, but I feel like I should watch it to review?

Has anyone disabled seen it? Any care receivers? Wondering if it's good rep or horrifying, before I try it, so I can steel myself? 😬

Link - The imdb link for a 2021 Ch4 movie called Help.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt13649036/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

#KittenWatches #Disability #NEISvoid #Movies #Film #DisabilityRepresentation

Help (TV Movie 2021) - IMDb

Help: Directed by Marc Munden. With Jodie Comer, Stephen Graham, Lesley Sharp, Ian Hart. Sarah seems to have found her calling working in a Liverpool care home where she has a special talent for connecting with the residents. Then, in March 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic hits.

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Susannah The Tired Apr 2, 2023

Finding Nemo easily found it's place on my #KittenWatches Actually Good Disability Representation list on #Letterboxd! 🥰

Link to list - https://boxd.it/lnINC

#Movies #Movie #FilmMastodon

#KittenWatches 🐆 Actually Good Disability & Neurodivergency Representation

It's so very rare to find truly good disability, deaf, Blind, chronic/mental/terminal illness or neurodivergency rep, so I decided to make a list! Ranked by how good the rep feels to me, to the best of my understanding as a long term disabled, chronically & mentally ill, neurodivergent femme! You might also want to check my disability representation tag to see all the movies I've reviewed with dis rep in them - note - these really are the good, the bad, AND the ugly!! I haven't made a list for these just yet! Recommendations always welcome in comments! I'm using "disability"…

Susannah The Tired Apr 2, 2023

#KittenWatches Finding Nemo (through a disability lens)

I've tried to unpack the #disability rep in Finding Nemo & it turned into one of the hugest movie reviews I've written. 😆 It's taken since Sept to write!

Having not 1 but at least *11* characters who're in some way "disabled", Finding Nemo teaches us about disability management, acceptance & how harmful ableism is.

Link - My ★★★★½ full #MovieReview with CW on #Letterboxd
https://boxd.it/442nGh

#Disney #Movies #Movie #ActuallyAutistic

A ★★★★½ review of Finding Nemo (2003)

Finding Nemo I swear has more disability rep every time I watch it! 😆 This time I watched specifically to review from that pov & wow! This really is one of the defining & best dis rep movies I know of because it's so full of disabled characters & expertly teaches about ableism, disablism & disability, as well as acceptance of those different from yourself - all in a way accessible to even children! Yet most people don't really think of it as disability representation! Let me convince you...! 👇 Nemo has a deformed small fin on one side - his "lucky fin". Essentially,

Susannah The Tired Mar 31, 2023

#KittenWatches #LastFourWatched

Can you tell I've started a watch of animated shorts, lol? Just to prove I'm also watching actual movies (lol) there's a shot of my diary, too haha!

#Letterboxd #LetterboxdFriday #Movies #Film

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Susannah The Tired Mar 31, 2023

Oh! And hey! I'm doing an official #StopMotion watch now, in case you wanna follow along!

Link - #KittenWatches The Magic of Stop Motion - A list on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/m0oru

#Movie #Movies #Film #Animation #KwStopMotion #StopMotion #Letterboxd #LetterboxdFriday

#KittenWatches The Magic of Stop Motion

I'm obsessed with this medium, so I'm going to work my way through as many Stop Motion movies as I can, and rank them while I go! 🙌 (Where I have the links to any shorts and such, I'll add them to the reviews.)