ellabooray

ellabooray

Trying to watch some movies in 2024

Favorite films

  • The Wizard of Oz
  • The Castle
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

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  • Cléo from 5 to 7

  • Girls Just Want to Have Fun

    ★★

  • Ikiru

  • Porco Rosso

    ★★★★½

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  • Cléo from 5 to 7

    Cléo from 5 to 7

    90 minutes is the perfect length for a film

  • Girls Just Want to Have Fun

    Girls Just Want to Have Fun

    ★★

    I could not care less for Dance Tv... it's no Corny Collins show, or dare I say it, Camp Rock. A reminder that not all 80s movies had charisma! I did enjoy the Nun doing a pomelhorse routine though.

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  • Grand Tour

    Grand Tour

    ★★

    Dump him Molly.

    In all seriousness, this movie had a great description in the film festival brochure but I felt every minute of it (not a compliment). I read a review that it parodies 30s/40s travel films, and while I am not familiar with that genre, it felt like there just wasn't a purpose.

    There were some great ideas (the puppet show vingettes, changing languages, mixing in documentary footage with the period drama) but these elements just hung there. Juxtaposition…

  • We Were Dangerous

    We Were Dangerous

    ★★★★★

    A privilege to be at the NZ premiere of this movie. An energetic film about girlhood that circles some dark truths about Aotearoa. I was thinking about the the Abuse in State Care report that came out last week. This would be a great movie for English class in high school (compliment)

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