ashleigh

ashleigh

28 | they/them | probably listening to 80's music right now

Favorite films

  • Stop Making Sense
  • Fallen Angels
  • Drive My Car
  • Whiplash

Recent activity

All
  • Flow

    ★★★★½

  • The Electric State

    ★½

  • FernGully: The Last Rainforest

    ★★½

  • The Monkey

    ★★

Recent reviews

More
  • Flow

    Flow

    ★★★★½

    "Rated U for mild threat" -- MILD?! YOU CALL THIS SHIT MILD?!??!?

    a simply beautiful (and heartbreaking) film, i'm sooooo glad it won best animated feature over The Wild Robot. took me a little while to settle in and *invest* in the story but once i was in, i was IN

    made me laugh, made me cry. made me appreciate having a home and the crushing prospect of losing it. i'm lucky enough to have always had a safe place…

  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    ★½

    starts out as a predictable, middle of the road dystopian sci-fi -- hot garbage by the end

    am i holding the film to a higher standard because of the huge names and talent behind it? well, yes. the Russos are perfectly capable of making good films and have in the past.... so what the FUCK is this??!??!

    and i know people keep harping on the grotesque budget but you can't NOT take that into account. just feels like a slap in the face for all independent filmmakers out there. if this is the way cinema is headed, i want no part of it

Popular reviews

More
  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★½

    there's no way that's bill skarsgard, i don't belive it

    didn't love this as much as other people seemed to. i mean at the end of the day it's a robert eggers film, it's never going to be bad. and it is genuinely well crafted; the production design, cinematography, and costumes are absolutely off the charts

    outside of that though, i definitely struggled to connect with the story and it's characters. i thought the performances started off fairly wooden (in…

  • Blackadder's Christmas Carol

    Blackadder's Christmas Carol

    ★★★★

    just britain's finest comedic actors at the top of their game in one of the most acclaimed christmas stories of all time

    no big deal