ploehrke

ploehrke

Favorite films

  • Dead Poets Society
  • Pride & Prejudice
  • The Muppet Christmas Carol
  • Hook

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  • From Up on Poppy Hill

    ★★★

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★

  • The Holdovers

    ★★★★

  • Castle in the Sky

    ★★★

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  • Lady J

    Lady J

    ★½

    I was expecting so much more from this. Instead of a fun revenge story of a woman scorned and getting one up on the patriarchy for how its treated women for ages, we’re instead tortured with—once again!—a story of the shrewish older woman who didn’t get what she wanted so she throws (essentially) a tantrum. Lame. This movie tried so hard to be avant garde and hip with little details like Portrait of a Lady on Fire did, but it…

  • Little Women

    Little Women

    ★★★★★

    There is something so timeless about Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Women and girl's stories are so commonly shoved aside, and very little undivided attention has been given to women's stories until recent years. Yet L.M.A so easily captured a unique universality for us. Little Women is for the girls who are told they're too much; for the girls who want more than they've been allotted or told they're capable of; for the girls who "are large" and "contain multitudes,"…

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