Shaista

Favorite films

  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  • s Ha
  • Columbus
  • After Yang

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  • I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★½

  • Apple Cider Vinegar

    ★★★

  • Asteroid City

    ★★★½

  • Okja

    ★★★★

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I Saw the TV Glow

2024

★★★★½ Watched

Watched this on the plane home from Taipei on my phone. This felt too familiar to me… too real

Schoenbrun, who identifies as trans and non-binary, spoke about the film’s resonance with queer audiences and said, “The movie does speak for itself, to a certain degree, to the people who are listening. The fact that certain audiences can watch it and not be able to find that legibility, whereas other audiences can watch and be bawling their eyes out and talk about it surfacing feelings that are deep and visceral ― to me, that almost feels like the thing I’m most proud of.” 

Apple Cider Vinegar

2025

★★★ Watched

Phenomenal acting from everyone. Direction is a  little jumbled, convoluted, and confusing at many points but essentially, Belle Gibson you can rot! Also fuck the parasitical wellness industry.

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Past Lives

2023

★★★★★ Watched

Cried through the whole thing. Not sure what this says about me… but as an Asian immigrant who is constantly choosing to keep leaving this was painful to say the least

The Social Network

2010

★★★★½ Watched

Turns out Mark Zuckerberg is in fact, an asshole