Jenn

Jenn

Trying to develop better taste :(

Favorite films

  • The Stepford Wives
  • Red Eye
  • 127 Hours
  • Gone Girl

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  • The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

    ★½

  • A Royal Affair

    ★★★★★

  • Subservience

    ½

  • Poor Things

    ★★

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  • The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

    The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

    ★½

    My dad painstakingly read both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings to me when I was a very small child, so when the first trailer for Jackson's Fellowship of the Rings was released in 2000, he sat me down in front of Apple's movie trailers page to watch it. The following three Christmases were the best of my life, and an opportunity to connect with my father.

    We didn't see the Hobbit movies together. Our relationship had soured by…

  • A Royal Affair

    A Royal Affair

    ★★★★★

    I have this dream to have monthly historical movie nights with dinner with my friends. This was a winner for the first one, as one friend speaks Danish and had not seen it before. We all loved it and I loved it even more having the insight of a Danish speaker. (We all shrieked when she informed us that the king was not screaming "fairy", as the subtitles said. I made a creamy spaghetti cacio e pepe with homemade garlic…

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  • Subservience

    Subservience

    ½

    Family watch, I lobbied hard for "Nope" but my foolish parents didn't want a alien story so this is what they picked. This sucked ass and I'm so so so so glad I'm not afflicted with a "watching sex scenes with family" awkwardness.

    Liked the shot of the male lead's bare ass though, for that I will allow a half star.

  • Red Eye

    Red Eye

    ★★★★

    There was a period in my teens where I watched this 2-3 times a week, and at some point I was on vacation with my family and we had a layover at the airport where they filmed the airport scenes. I did run through the quiet halls like a lunatic just to say I did. Why not. This movie made me interested in the relationship violence plays between men and women and the way that is sometimes interpolated with romance,…

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