Shelby Byrd

Shelby Byrd

Hey Siri, should I be pretentious or unhinged in my Letterboxd reviews? Both? Cool.

Favorite films

  • Interstellar
  • Knives Out
  • Baby Driver
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

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  • Twisters

    ★★★★

  • Pulp Fiction

    ★★★★

  • The Godfather

    ★★★½

  • When Harry Met Sally...

    ★★★★

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  • Twisters

    Twisters

    ★★★★

    Twisters rewatch and talkback with THE Ashley Jay Sandberg!!

    On a second watch, the dialogue is a little more cringy, especially when they use characters like the journalist as audience stand ins to explain how tornadoes work to us, but hearing about the making of the film from AJ, I’m even more wowed at the process of how Twisters was made! There were so many obstacles that definitely didn’t come across on screen and the entire crew did a fantastic…

  • Pulp Fiction

    Pulp Fiction

    ★★★★

    More nerd homework! I actually hear the film bros out on this one. The interwoven story is very neat and I absolutely love the witty dialogue. Definitely goes into the “damn, I wish I wrote that” category. The beginning and end of the film are the strongest parts in my opinion, since Samuel L Jackson and John Travoltas exchanges make the whole movie. It does suffer from a little bit of Tarantino edgy-for-the-sake-of-being-edgy syndrome, but of all the QT movies,…

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  • Ocean's Eleven

    Ocean's Eleven

    ★★★★½

    I realized that I had only seen this movie in a series of disjointed scenes and had never watched the whole thing through. I decided that needed to be remedied immediately. 

    The writing of this film absolutely blows my mind! It is fabulous at building suspense, it’s crazy clever, it fleshes out characters that feel like real people, it has heart AND it’s funny? Not to mention it is beautifully shot, of course. 

    It should be a five star movie,…

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★½

    IT’S ABOUT TIME I WATCHED THIS 
     
    I just felt like knocking out a silly little Monday night movie and now I’m emotionally wrecked. Thanks Spiderverse. 

    There’s so much packed into these two hours that it easily could have been three, but the writers elected not to stretch the runtime and I love them for that. It’s a movie I could see myself rewatching over and over to look for all of the quips, references, world building, and character moments. …