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Favorite films

  • Wicked
  • La La Land
  • Love Actually
  • The Holiday

All
  • A Good Year

    ★★★½

  • The Duchess

    ★★★

  • Pride & Prejudice

    ★★★★★

  • Nosferatu

    ★★★½

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Pride & Prejudice

2005

★★★★★ Rewatched

I named my cat Darcy but unfortunately he does not live up

Wicked

2024

★★★★½ Rewatched

The third watch made me consider downgrading this but then Defying Gravity started and I realized how stupid I was.

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Maudie

2016

★★★★ 1

I'm going to say it right off the bat: while Maudie was ultimately beautiful, watching it was still a sad experience. My biggest issue was the nature of Maud and Everett's relationship... It felt really uncomfortable watching how ridiculously abusive and disrespectful he was with her. I know that was pretty much their situation in real life too, but the difference is that the film eventually expects us to be okay with it.  

It's a complicated subject, because arguably…

The King's Speech

2010

★★★★½ Rewatched

I'm so proud that Colin Firth won his long-deserved Oscar for a film in which "Fuck. Fuck! Fuck, fuck, fuck and fuck! Fuck, fuck and bugger! Bugger, bugger, buggerty buggerty buggerty, fuck, fuck, arse!" is one of his lines.

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