pirate_ivy

pirate_ivy

Favorite films

  • Black Narcissus
  • Walkabout
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock
  • Persona

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  • Mickey 17

    ★½

  • Dog Day Afternoon

    ★★★★½

  • Sister Midnight

    ★★★½

  • Vertigo

    ★★★½

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  • Top Gun

    Top Gun

    ★★½

    1 star for the dead plot and romance. 5 stars for the action and Meg Ryan.

  • Hôtel des Acacias

    Hôtel des Acacias

    ★★★★½

    That blocking is TIGHT

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  • National Theatre Live: Fleabag

    National Theatre Live: Fleabag

    ★★

    It’s just such a horrible world she lives in and she’s such a bad, messed-up person, it’s a little hard to enjoy. And so many of the jokes are about sexual harassment and abuse, which I get is Fleabag’s damaged method for processing and feeling self-worth, but when it’s told at a comedy festival, the audience’s only option really is to laugh. So it’s weird hearing an audience laugh at the punchline “he could at least have tried to rape…

  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    ★★

    When the games finally gamesed they gamesed hard, but bit of a momentumless and emotionless piece for me otherwise.

    Unfortunately Snow just has no personality or chemistry with anyone. There’s no intensity or emotion behind anything he does which makes his interactions with other people quite dull to watch. I think this was a director’s choice rather than an actor’s shortcoming, but I think they could have moulded Snow’s origins a little to let us see more of a layered…