Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
an acting masterclass from Marianne Jean-Baptise, she should’ve been Oscar nominated for this.
I wish I hadn’t seen this in an Everyman cinema in Finsbury Park on a Saturday evening though. Just a lot of middle class white people saying ‘oh GOD!’ constantly out of frustration (even at the end when the credits rolled) with no empathy or understanding that this character is very real for lots of people.
The acting made it great but acting aside it wasn’t a ‘great’ film. Was more a great piece of theatre.
Almost walked out at the start then loved it (I think) by the end?
Poor Things would receive 5 starts from me if it wasn’t for the direction of the excessive sex scenes Bella takes part in in the first quarter of the movie, where she still has the literal brain / mental capacity of a child. I was hoping the point of these scenes would be to later expose the grotesque nature of mens desire to control and take…
Turns out the teenage dream of marrying your adult celebrity crush is actually a nightmare.
It’s obvious Elvis only ever wanted a prop, not an actual human being on his arm. He wanted an accessory he could customize completely to match his brand which was why he had to go after such a young girl, because no woman his own age would put up with his controlling bullshit.
I liked how at one moment Priscilla seemed to laugh under her breath…