Layla 🍉

Layla 🍉

Favorite films

  • Strictly Ballroom
  • Black Christmas
  • Eve's Bayou
  • In the Mood for Love

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  • My Best Friend's Wedding

    ★★★★

  • One of Them Days

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Strange Days

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  • My Best Friend's Wedding

    My Best Friend's Wedding

    ★★★★

    Jules and Michael definitely had that affair they joked about.

  • Strange Days

    Strange Days

    Strange Days has one of the most incredible openings I've ever seen. The viewer is forced into the violence, that drenches this film, from the very beginning with the opening POV sequence. It's shot in a way that makes you feel both thrilled and nauseous, as you're forced to relive the events of a heist through the instigator of violence, with seemingly no way of escaping it. Thus, establishing the tone of the film to come: violence is everywhere and…

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  • Pretty Woman

    Pretty Woman

    ½

    As Vivian walks the streets of Hollywood Boulevard, in search of her roommate, Kit, who has stolen their rent money she comes across a crime scene. The body of a dead hooker has been found: the police chatter in the background makes it sound like she's been murdered by her pimp. When Vivian brings it up to Kit later, she waves it away as being another case of a "crazy crackhead" hooker OD'ing and assures Vivian that nothing like that…

  • Scream VI

    Scream VI

    ★½

    As a slasher its fine, but as a Scream film its garbage. The twist is completely unearned. Mostly because when we aren't watching people being brutally murdered on screen, we're just sitting through dumps of exposition relating to the Stab formula franchise. Every time the characters mentioned Stab I could feel myself dying inside.

    There's no time for the audience to actually just sit with the characters and try to figure out who could be Ghostface, because everyone is always…

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