Discovering movies like Down With Love is a major reason I love Letterboxd. This film clearly made approximately zero cultural impact, because despite being in high school when it came out, I had no recollection of it whatsoever. Even if I had, a 2003 rom-com starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor wouldn't have been high on my list of priorities. But a couple of people I follow on here reviewed it positively, I added it to a watchlist, I'm looking…
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllPinned reviews
More-
-
Drive My Car 2021
Finally showing in Kansas City, Drive My Car is a beautiful and enthralling three hour mediation on grief and interiority. I'm glad I saw this in a theater where it's easier to put aside distractions. It follows a theater director who stages his plays with each actor speaking a different language. There are an astounding number of things going on in this film, and they are each handled deftly. If you like films to have layers of meaning, I can't…
Recent reviews
More-
Love, Death & Robots: Swarm 2022
The trajectory of the story is more or less obvious from the opening moments. It still has a lot of great ideas going for it. I would have liked a stronger ending.
-
Once Upon A Mattress 2005
This is terrible, but it's silly and harmless and it kept my kids calm for 90 minutes.
Popular reviews
More-
Alice 1988
Film School Drop Outs 2021
Week 35 - Auteur - Jan ŠvankmajerA dark, demented, and surreal take on Alice in Wonderland. Alice is a mix of live action and stop motion. Alice and the White Rabbit wage all out war. The animals are taxidermy. The caterpillars are socks. Suffice to say it's a heck of a lot creepier than the Disney version. The book, as I recall, is silly and witty - you don't get a lot of that…
-
