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Nanny McPhee 2005

½ Added

there’s a sequence in this where the humour is sexual , like he’s trying to explain but keeps getting caught in pranks or something and so it looks like he’s propositioning the new nanny and it scarred me for life. irreparable damage to my psychosexual development as a child. could get psychoanalyzed about it but won’t bother bc i can just write this letterboxd blurb
Enola Holmes 2020

★★★½ Watched 17 Jan 2023

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this was fun! a little bit long, but fun. millie bobby brown is surprisingly good, and i like her chemistry w the marquess—they have a dynamic i like that is very “i’m 16” in a good way. social issues were more nuanced here than i expected and i was pleasantly surprised (despite a “corsets are bad” obligatory comment. i am so tired of that take). although they never really address that her mom essentially trained her to be a hana-like…

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Notting Hill 1999

★★★ Rewatched 03 Feb 2023

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who was that rather diffident-looking chap i saw you talking to earlier?
who did the soundtrack for this. was it someone who then went on to be the music supervisor for the cw. i need to know!!!!
julia roberts is literally still that girl to me. high grant is high grant in this movie and i still find it tolerable and sometimes charming?!
i think the specificity of place is what does it for me here. the little details and…
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988

★★½ Watched 03 Feb 2023

it’s…fine. there was way too much “he’s left on a plane” only to have him—surprise!—not be on his way out of town after all! i think this plot point happens like five times and it gets old fast. this movie is not hammy enough but also not serious enough to be good. it’s sort of … nothing. i wish this movie were the one michael caine is acting in—remember that he was in the italian job? he’s so cool, and…

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