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Beautiful beautiful beautiful lovely!!! 

Super fantastic and original plot, which is refreshing given the proliferation of remakes and bad sequels on the scene for the past few years.

So warm and heartfelt. Fantastic voice cast all round. 

Shoutout to the 50y/o man who took himself on a solo date and was chuckling the entire runtime. He had a great laugh and it genuinely made the cinema experience so enjoyable :) 

#lido

“Leo 2: euthanising Leo”

“One shouldn't do a deep squat with a chopstick in one's pocket” 😎🐼😎🐼😎🐼

Violence against women is bad and media controls our perceptions and realities…. who woulda thunk it!!!!!!!!!!!!????!!!!?!!!! But there were tits and surrealism in it, so it must be profound 🫶

“I loved Pingu's THE THING. Better than the original...?”

- LITERALLY JOHN CARPENTER

I gasped. I giggled. I gagged. INTEGRAL facets of a truely fulfilling cinematic experience. AND there was even a spider x human head that went blink blink. WOW!!! 

I love this era of iconic filmmaking and balls to the walls practical effects - Alien, Indiana Jones, Jurassic park…. So much fun and very effective storytelling! I even spyed a cheeky split diopter lens shot - okayyy film degree knowledge coming in clutch xoxo 

This film no doubt inspired my all time favourite episode of the X Files “Ice” (Season 1, Episode 8) which was a fun little takeaway too. 

Minus 0.5 cause this miserably failed the bechdel test (the only woman in sight was the sexy poster woman). 

#theastor

Starts strong then dwindles… but still a silly, creative - dare I say - upbeat story 🧟🖤 We love originality 🧠

A classic for a reason!!! Long, but doesn’t drag. Absolutely iconic soundtrack. An overall fun night out with my sister & my papa :) #thecapitol

Never thought I’d hate a Joan Cusack movie, but here we are

hehe 😎

Pretty stupid, but then again, I’m an idiot 😍

 *bows to ancient relic angry birds*

Decent, but stunted and uninviting. Not because of the subject matter, but because it felt structurally inhibiting and tonally confused. This unfortunately curtailed *consistent* emotional reactions; aka whenever there was momentum, it was interrupted, then resumed, then interrupted - a frustrating cycle.

However, there were some genuinely chilling sections amongst this that were very skillfully crafted. The parking lot scene was beyond unnerving & horrifying. Gaffing, blocking, line delivery oh so good!!

Great to see Anna Kendrick at the directing helm. It’s nice to see she donated much of her revenue to the relevant issues too. This felt respectful and seems like genuine engagement with the subject matter and the victims - a practice sometimes lacking in true crime based fiction (Ryan Murphy 👀). AK GOAT behaviour!!

As a side note, it’s quite harrowing that - if this film is a microcosm for women’s dating options - they are: sleezy misogynist, indifferent idiot, majorly creepy insistent neighbour, or a literal serial killer pretend “nice guy”. Yikes.

I liked it when Ryan gosling buckled up good boy Jean Claude in the car :) and then I liked it when Jean Claude sat up at the bar and drank a water beck 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ then I liked it when they covered Jean Claude’s eyes from seeing a butt 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ then I liked it when Jean was at the movie premiere wearing doggy sunglasses 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ Then I liked it when Jean roofed in the credits 🙂‍↕️ Those are most of the positives I can glean from this money-grabbing cringe-fest

🫶 Nisha Murali 🫶

A cinematic masterPISS 🐷🐑🧱⚒️🟩🔳🔵

(Give me the Jennifer Coolidge Matt Berry Villager nsfw sex scene NOW)

*Billy Eichner voice* Let’s go lesbians!!!!!!!! 🌈🌈🩷🧡🤍🩷🧡🤍 Sooooo delightful and silly :)
I wish the plot was better (and excessive lying makes me uncomfortable), but everything else was fantastic. Eagerly anticipating what the hilarious cast and talented crew do next!!!!

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

Genuinely stunned this movie is revered in the horror community because I thought it was atrocious! To the people calling it a “slow burner”… I’ve got a more appropriate ‘synonym’ for you; “BORING”!!!!!!! 💅 

Analysis beyond its LABORIOUS exterior offers some ittedly interesting thematic machinations, particularly, the antagonist’s trauma-induced cardinal principle that love, punishment and suffering are intertwined & inseparable. Additionally, the mystery gaining momentum was exciting, and the slight surreal elements added intrigue. 

However, all-in-all, the pacing was disted, and the navigation of multiple genres felt discordant - awkwardly switched between rather than concurrent - leaving the audience feeling emotionally whiplashy. The slow monolithic setup, the sudden dramatic incline, the brief bout of surrealism, then the shocking finale - a perverse torture revenge scene with immense adrenaline, all felt separate in identity. These differing elements unintegrated bring attention to the film’s form and negatively distract from its story. 

Adding to its detriments, the production value reads like a student film (derogatory) and there was frequent clunky and unnecessary exposition in the dialogue. Also, indirectly related to the film, but who the heck chose to include a major spoiler for the featured banner and poster!!?!?! What a crazy strange decision!!….

I can’t necessarily fault its story as it’s based on a novel, but it’s strange that the audience is postulated to root for the preservation of a creepy loser mass-manipulating and literally (non-consensually) auditioning women half his age to be his “subservient” doting wife. Personally, I don’t care if he gets stabbed in the stomach a few times for his crimes x 🤷‍♀️

Overall, I recognise there are compelling and even captivating puzzle pieces to this film, but not enough to make it worth watching. Stars for the bold balls to the walls crazy committed torture scene…

🦧Make 🦧egg 🦧🦧🍳🍳🥚🦧

Presenting the soulless chain eviscerating the cosy wholesome small-business as a win is actually crazy work from Nora (may she rest 🙏). 

I despise Joe Fox and you🫵 should too!!!! He just kept sucking and never apologising for anything!! What the freak?!!!! I hope all his future bagels are dry. The ‘nice’ legacy of Tom Hanks has infiltrated y’all bitches’ perception of this character methinks. 

Overall, this was just okay. I didn’t *feel* their romantic chemistry, and the underlying yearning of the ‘enemies to lovers’ trope (W) wasn’t there. It’s definitely not a bad movie, it’s just not for me. Shame.

Vile. Embarrassing for the human race. Uncannily unapologetically sexist. Laughably unfunny. Truly horrendous in every way imaginable. A skid-mark on the underpants of filmography. Need I go on?

Handsome and wholesome :) 

Yay for trans joy 🫶
Yay for intimate friendships 🫶
Yay for liberating yourself at any age 🫶
Yay for pushing through discomfort & learning 🫶
Yay for people accepting each other’s’ identities 🫶

Cried, nay; wept, 6 times 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶

Roz is so autism coded 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

And that’s 3 in the “sexy foxes” universe 🙂‍↕️🥲🥲

Seen without watching a lick of its supposedly fantastic predecessor… but if the show is anything like this movie, I’ll frickin . 

Truly boring narrative and highly misogynistic vibes with an abundance of objectifying scenes. I now also have unrelated trauma attached to this movie lol. 

All in all; not good folks. One star purely for the artistry of the medium.

Pretty sweet, decently funny, tropey teenager forgettable flick. WTF was the Mr Studebaker character… yikes.

🫶 Connor & Eddie 🫶

Succinct chronological episode summaries with great accompanying interviews from both cast and crew. Super interesting to hear from the director about his writing and story decisions. Definitely felt like they should’ve interviewed ‘Thanos’ though…. 

Gong Yoo I’m actually free whenever 🫦🫦🫦🫦🫦🫦🫦🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🫦🫦🫦🫦🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

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It feels like the filmmakers just threw a bunch of cool stuff at the wall and were hoping something would stick. But what you get is an unfocused messy story that discredits and trivialises all the incorporated concepts by prioritising none of them. 

A (micro) example: idk why they set up a pretty captivating jaws-esque sea-dwelling-dino at the beginning, only for it to never return or be mentioned again.

Simple creature-feature? Moral responsibility to scientific creations? Dinosaurs as military weapons? Dinosaurs as ‘animals’ with personalities or ‘monsters’ hard-wired to kill - and should either have rights? The technological advancement of genetic cloning from animals to humans - what are the repercussions, and are these ‘people’ individuals or exact copies? All these questions and more raised then promptly discarded in favour of a tired romance nobody cares about. Even the return of legacy characters Ian Malcolm and Dr Wu felt unexciting and disingenuous - just another gimmick to throw into the mix in an attempt to legitimise the second sequel. 

The inclusion of genuinely heart-wrenching scenes of dinosaurs fleeing lava and running to the dock, only to be abandoned by the humans that created them was soooo sad :( The shot of the silhouetted wailing brontosaurus was a gut punch :((( 🌫️🦕 But, again, these Frankenstein-esque themes were not capitalised on in a meaningful way throughout the film’s duration. 

With tweaks, this could’ve been great. As it stands, it’s good background fodder.

Corny, but I do love munching on the cob 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽

Watched on Wednesday February 19, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

I wish in the final drumroll carnage, we’d seen a decapitated Elijah Wood. It would’ve made his cameo more fulfilling and could’ve been a silly ‘happy ever after’ solution to the adoption problem.

Boy I tell u… I’ve never yearned for subtitles more

Bob Dylan screw u and ur stinky music ur a bad person and i’m sure that u smell like day-old doo doo!!!!!!!!! Justice for Sylvie and Pete; ive sweet cuties!!!!!!! Albert Grossman ur a spineless turd and u should go jump in a lake 😤😤 

Timothee Chalamet best actor of my* generation fr fr !!! Movie sort of aimless & slowish - but those aren’t necessarily bad things, and I did thoroughly enjoy it

First time watches of classics is illuminating not only because you’re seeing the movie for the first time, but because you’re confirming or debunking your made-up constructions of that movie. 

For example, I thought the character of Betelgeuse was going to be a mischievous but endearing rascal; like the Grinch. In actuality, he was a disturbing creepy pervert who had a very punchable face and tainted my enjoyment.

Expectedly, Tim Burton’s artistic direction and Bob Welch’s production design was second to none. Charming stop motion, cool practical effects, and overarching unique spooky whimsical style (which carries a lot of my rating tbh) 💋👻😈🧿🐍

Mum and I were begging for this to end 

1 star for Alex Hassel dilf (the d stands for doctor)

I love Charlie Day and I love Jenny Slate. But this was so forgettable to the literal point where I knew I had watched a movie on this date, but I couldn’t anything about the plot, the writing, the acting, or its title.

Watched on Saturday August 17, 2024.

“Everyone’s lost at 25” VALIDATION 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

This does not TOUCH the show. The acting (Jim Sturgess 👀), the accents (Anne Hathaway 👀), the (lack of) chemistry, the (nonexistent) yearning, the (stale) humour, the (formulaic) soundtrack, the (rushed) format… 

The discrepancy between this film (2011) and the show (2024) is so interesting because there are chunks of dialogue/action that are almost identical…. But it just goes to show how influential all these elements can be - individually and accumulatively - in audience reception.

Chocolate oligarchy malarkey.

A bad day to be lactose intolerant.

I need him (Mathew Baynton; my wife/baby daddy/forever crush).

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SUCKING A RING OFF SOMEONE’S FINGER IS NOT FRIEND BEHAVIOUR

Fuck u mean manipulative Julianne and fuck u sleazy slimeball Michael. Sweet innocent Kimmy DUMP HIM, get your degree, wait for your prefrontal cortex to develop, and bag a man that actually respects you 🫶. George I have no notes… except maybe get better friends 🙄

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Well dang that was a lot of slurs 🥲🥲

I’m sure glad Andy didn’t end up with Ducky omg what an immature unbearable little stalker…… but atleast he grew in the end I guess…… 👁️👁️

Extremely aesthetic, super camp, wildly enjoyable - but I can’t help but get stressed in the “the walls are closing in” type plots. Still loved it tho 🧟🩷

Not realistic at all. Nosferatu should’ve enrolled in high school and played baseball to supermassive black hole.

A camp, groovy, fun time hanging with the girlies for my borfday-bonanza quarter-life-crisis watchin the sassy eponymous diva with awesome hair ball-bashin scrote-squashin gnad-gnashin some creeper, then corpse-crushin jam-generating pancake-producing Mr. Kevin Bacon. 

The weakest of the trilogy. Disted story and rushed kinda-cringe finale. Massively underutilised secondary cast - Bobby Cannavale, Michele Monaghan and the awesome sexy cool AUSTRALIAN Elizabeth Debicky. But loved the dingey dirty 80s LA landscape - perfect thriller backdrop.

George Bailey, I'll love you 'til the day I die 

A special night with my dad & sister at my favourite cinema; the Art Deco ‘Astor theatre’ - accompanied by a big bustling crowd sitting shoulder to shoulder - all assembled to watch this beautiful classic on Christmas Eve night 🥰🥰🥰 

IAWL is so cosy. It’s charming and lovely and spouts the importance of community, living selflessly and doing good. On the surface, these seem like generic themes, but they’re very socialist in nature - further reinforced by their pairing with anti-capitalist themes like corporate greed, affordable housing for the masses, and prioritising a community mindset rather than individualistic one. I was surprised that *America* produced such a pro-socialism film - but it was pre ‘the red scare’ so I guess it could make sense.  ALSO THE TOWN SHOULD’VE LYNCHED MR POTTER. FRICK THAT GUY #LYNCHPOTTER2025

The humour is very sweet and endearing, and shockingly holds up for modern audiences SEVENTY years later. So many giggly moments and barely any xenophobia (!!!??!?) which was genuinely shocking given the rampant casual racism of the mid 20th century. Interestingly, given this is a ‘Christmas movie’ it’s not very christmassy - aside from the pure & wholesome tone. Also Jimmy Stewart was very handsome. ‘Spinster’ librarian Mary got major audience chuckles. My one criticism is that the dream sequence dragged on too long and hit the same beat over and over. But overall, I loved it and will this film and night fondly 💚❤️💚❤️ And people: no man is a failure who has friends 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

The space race; but make it pop tarts

Damn guys I guess I’m a 70 year old man then because I thought this slapped!!! Sooooo camp. So delightful. So whimsical. Silly…. Sweet 😏😏😏 dare I say 😏😏 W Max Greenfield, W Hugh Grant. 

A major win for goofy fellas everywhere. Unless you’re really grumpy and lame and hate joy I guess….. 😗😗

Watched on Wednesday July 24, 2024.

Absolutely unnerving & diabolical. A deplorable toe-curling psychopathic protagonist. Gylenhaal’s icy performance is genuinely terrifying to watch. Script moments of dark humour make this all the more bone chilling. Poor Rick.

So forgettable, that in the 4 months since I watched it, I have genuinely forgotten 95% of it.

Finally tackled this beast at beautiful Juju’s birthday bonanza sleepover, and whilst it did not have my undivided attention, it was a very pleasant viewing experience. 

Breezy, casual and markedly lighter in tone than the (imo superior) 2005 version - which I can now informedly conclude made masterful cuts to the plot without compromising the story’s substance. 

Comparing the pair; both Darcy’s are aloof & standoff-ish, but 1995 Darcy is more irritable/hostile whereas 2005 Darcy is more reserved/nervous. The second portrayal is more compatible with a romantic plot. 1995 Lizzie is pleasant, even-tempered and slightly demure whereas 2005 Lizzie is more stern & stubborn. The second allows for a more riveting and dramatic plot. One thing remains constant though - both Mrs. Bennett’s are annoying asf.

Beaurecracy, capitalism, and depression. My least favourite things.

“Learn to drive you pillock” me fist-waggling tortoises on the M1

I have a terrible memory so there are lots missing
Some watched compulsory as part of course work
Some watched voluntarily for my research assignments

• The Conversation
• Sweet Smell of Success
• Wyrm
• Double Indemnity
• A Ghost Story
• The Celluloid Closet
• Fauve
• Caroline
• The Graduate
• To Catch a Thief

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

French film festival in Melbourne
Watches over the years (that I )

• Back to Burgundy
• Maigret
• Holy Cow
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• See You Up There

I am OBSESSED w Sufjan Stevens!!!

1. Challengers
2. Bones and All
3. Call Me by Your Name
4. Suspiria
5. Queer

• Interstellar
• Casino
• 12 Angry Men
• Arrival
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Sophie's Choice
• Schindler's List
• Raging Bull
• A Clockwork Orange
• Saving Private Ryan

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Challengers
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Dune: Part Two
• Lisa Frankenstein
• The Wild Robot
• Unfrosted
• Wicked
• The First Omen
• Gladiator II
• Will & Harper

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Fantastic franchise!!!!!! They all hit!!! But I have only seen them all once, so I’m intrigued if my opinions change on any rewatches. Watched #1 and #5 so long ago so I’m going off memory 🥲

Based on the other public lists though, putting #3 at #1 seems controversial though loooool 😏🫶💀 sorry people

Reviews coming soon but for now - I despised the opening of #4 with all my being

• Scream 3
• Scream
• Scream
• Scream 4
• Scream 2
• Scream VI

Rankies fave films (Not in order) :))

• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Amélie
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Coraline
• Flushed Away
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Howl's Moving Castle
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Monsters, Inc.

...plus 64 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

(In various roles/capacities)

• Love Cut
• One, Two
• Ragdoll
• Lichen
• Hellion
• Through Fault

Spot number 1-4 VERY TIGHT & potentially not definitive. 
If it’s not here, I haven’t seen it.

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Isle of Dogs
3. Moonrise Kingdom
4. Fantastic Mr. Fox
5. The Darjeeling Limited
6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7. Asteroid City
8. The French Dispatch
9. Rushmore
10. The Rat Catcher

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I haven’t seen 14 onwards

“Nausica” and “Lupin” are not studio ghibli, but they are directed by Miyazaki

1. Howl's Moving Castle
2. Spirited Away
3. Kiki's Delivery Service
4. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
5. Whisper of the Heart
6. Ponyo
7. The Boy and the Heron
8. The Cat Returns
9. The Secret World of Arrietty
10. Castle in the Sky

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Originals only

1. Tangled
2. Mulan
3. The Princess and the Frog
4. Moana
5. Frozen
6. Sleeping Beauty
7. Aladdin
8. The Little Mermaid
9. Beauty and the Beast
10. Brave

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1800s (Georgian, Regency era etc…) romances 💕💕💕💕😻💐💐💜

1. Pride & Prejudice
2. Emily
3. Little Women
4. The Piano
5. Sense and Sensibility
6. Emma.
7. Mansfield Park
8. Persuasion
9. Marie Antoinette
10. The Duchess

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The ones I’ve seen

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
3. The Hateful Eight
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
6. Django Unchained
7. Reservoir Dogs
8. Jackie Brown
9. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
10. True Romance

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

One of mi fav directors 🥰🥰🥰

1. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2. Eagle vs Shark
3. What We Do in the Shadows
4. Boy
5. Jojo Rabbit
6. Thor: Ragnarok

1. Monsters, Inc.
2. The Incredibles
3. Finding Nemo
4. Ratatouille
5. Coco
6. Toy Story 3
7. Cars 2
8. Toy Story 2
9. Brave
10. WALL·E

    ALSO SAD AND IT HURTS MY FEELINGS

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Lady Bird
• Frogs
• A Ghost Story
• The Lobster
• Rosemary's Baby
• Call Me by Your Name
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Parasite
• Apocalypse Now
• Kajillionaire

...plus 135 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Score & included music

• Twilight
• Pride & Prejudice
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
• Isle of Dogs
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Blade Runner
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• The Dark Knight

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Cute and wholesome mood boosters that leave u feeling fuzzy 🥺💖

• Paddington 2
• Nanny Mhee
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Spirited Away
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Monsters, Inc.
• Amélie
• Mamma Mia!
• Tag
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Basically shaped me, watched CONSTANTLY and prolly still quote them now tbh 🥰😘

If anything is from a series, I’ll add the 1 that I watched most (even if that 1 is not my favourite anymore. THINGS CHSNGE IM AAN ADULR NOW)

• Mulan
• Flushed Away
• Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
• Shrek the Third
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• The Aristocats
• The Sword in the Stone
• Matilda
• Star Wars

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original plot/story/concept (Not including structure / stylization)

• Coraline
• The Shape of Water
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Meet the Robinsons
• The Hunger Games
• Ex Machina
• Swiss Army Man
• The Truman Show
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Matrix

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE #1

• Pride & Prejudice
• Normal People
• Tangled
• When Harry Met Sally...
• Notting Hill
• Amélie
• Crazy, Stupid, Love.

• Garden State
• Broken Flowers
• The Fundamentals of Caring
• Swiss Army Man
• Charlie Bartlett
• Good Will Hunting
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Joker
• Her
• Lost in Translation

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Surf's Up
• Hoodwinked!
• The Emperor's New Groove

Must include atleast one of the following:
- stupid premise :)
- opens with a voice over quote
- emotionally unavailable man who needs to go to therapy but doesn’t 
- a major reveal in the last 5 minutes
- someone standing in the rain 
- car accident 
- #raunchy secc scene xo
- character turns out not to be dead 
- cringey dialogue 
- a toxic relationship 🤪
- makeover montage 
- casual sexism or fatphobia xx
- TWIST parent reveal 
- bad guy is actually the good guy & viseversa 
- all the women have flawless hair

• After
• After We Collided
• Fifty Shades of Grey
• Fifty Shades Darker
• Fifty Shades Freed
• Sky High
• A Cinderella Story
• What Happens in Vegas
• The DUFF
• 27 Dresses

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

They’re often trash, always with an adventurous premise but totally and undeniably enjoyable and fun :))

• Big Fat Liar
• A Cinderella Story
• The Princess Diaries
• Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
• The Lizzie McGuire Movie
• Mean Girls
• She's the Man
• 13 Going on 30
• Aquamarine
• What a Girl Wants

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.