Andrea Van Essen

Andrea Van Essen

Favorite films

  • The Princess Bride
  • Best in Show
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • West Side Story

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  • The Wild Robot

  • Conclave

  • The Business of Being Born

    ★★½

  • A Complete Unknown

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  • The Wild Robot

    The Wild Robot

    Someone please lay down the law re: how much of a movie you can sleep through and still be allowed to log. I maybe saw a third, but it was enough to know that I would have cried if I watched the whole thing. Pregnancy sleepiness is just my body protecting me from pregnancy (extra) teariness.

  • The Business of Being Born

    The Business of Being Born

    ★★½

    I’ve consumed a lot of natural childbirth content (not to mention having had one myself) prior to watching this, and while I recognize that this film was impactful at the time, 2008 was a WHILE ago. This is screaming for a redo/update, particularly now as midwifery/birth centers are thankfully becoming slightly more mainstream. Obviously people are going to have negative reactions to the topic regardless, but I think some of the pissy reviews I’m seeing here would be abated simply by giving…

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  • Marie Antoinette

    Marie Antoinette

    ★★★★★

    Just an absolute feast for the senses. 

    Yes, the dresses, the diamonds, the pastries, the hair dressed like pastries… but also the rich sunlight, vibrant fields of wildflowers, the swishing of satin against grass. 

    A sensuous portrayal which perhaps felt all the more fervent with that nagging, impending doom there to underscore it. 

    also RIP mops 😢.

  • Hit Man

    Hit Man

    ★★★½

    The fact that she acted like Gary was a lame and not sexy name but was rolling just fine with Ron???

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