janelou

janelou

Favorite films

  • The Last Unicorn
  • Titanic
  • Dirty Dancing
  • The Wicker Man

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  • Badlands

    ★★★★

  • Boot Camp

  • Starchaser: The Legend of Orin

    ★★★½

  • The Talented Mr. Ripley

    ★★★½

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  • Starchaser: The Legend of Orin

    Starchaser: The Legend of Orin

    ★★★½

    love me some fantasy w/sci fi dressings😫
    orin ily my lil space jesus-moses
    and can we TALK about Zygon’s c*nty skirt and devastating eyeliner combo💃🏼

  • We Live in Time

    We Live in Time

    ★★★★

    If you’ve ever seen the famous “We sat there and ate cheerios” clip from Oprah, then you already know the very best qualities of this film. Garfield and Pugh are incredible leads who are able to capture a great range of idiosyncrasies that only ever feel natural (a quality I’ve come to appreciate in actors from the UK). Their dialogue feels like a play, which is the true marker for an excellent script, and the nonlinear storytelling was handled well;…

  • Hidalgo

    Hidalgo

    ★★★

    Strikingly similar to Disney’s The Young Black Stallion released in 2003 (but i’ll give it the benefit of the doubt because it’s based off of Frank Hopkins’s life). There’s something about “a man and his horse” stories that will always win me over, and this film is no exception. It was a treat to see a painted horse on screen, especially as a horse so iconic as Hidalgo; it’s like childhood me returned to watch this movie! 
    That being said,…

  • A Walk on the Moon

    A Walk on the Moon

    ★★★★★

    “You ever been out west, pearl?…Want to go with me? We don’t have to wait, we can just pack up the bus and we’ll just camp out across the country and we’ll sleep under the stars every night.”
    In the summer of 1969, with a backdrop of Woodstock that gets more and more relevant as the film progresses, a housewife begins a passionate affair with a traveling salesman (a cliche the script is more than happy to point out). A…

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