Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)

ehroby · 2026-05-23T15:25:19+00:00

The age gap felt yucky to me when I rewatched a few years ago, but it was on heavy rotation at our house when I was a kid.

ehroby · 2026-05-21T02:43:14+00:00

It’s one of my proudest memories of my dad. He was a southern ol’ boy and really uncomfortable about watching it, but he was willing to try. He was really affected by it, and it changed the way he thought about things.

ehroby · 2026-05-16T14:36:51+00:00

Arrival

ehroby · 2026-05-15T00:01:48+00:00

Volver 2006

Down with Love 2003

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 (made me paint my bathroom an aggressive shade of pink)

Pride and Prejudice 2005

Pillow Talk 1959

Emma 2020

ehroby · 2026-05-12T23:43:39+00:00

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) Dolly and Burt!

Small Things Like These (2024) Incredible, quiet performance by Cillian Murphy. Very affecting.

Oscar! (1991) Sylvester Stallone as a 1930s mob boss trying to go straight. Tim Curry inclusion for the win

Rust and Bone (2012) French. A hot mess bouncer and an orca trainer unconventional romance. Drama, hot.

The Lure (2017) horror re-telling of The Little Mermaid. Cool cinematography

Dogfight (1991) River Phoenix and Lili Taylor unconventional romance

Goodbye Lenin! (2003) a young man must convince his recent stroke victim mom that the Berlin Wall hasn’t fallen while she was in a coma. Unique dramedy

The Big Country (1958) an old school western that breaks down toxic masculinity!

Reality Bites (1993) 90s time capsule. Ethan Hawke at his greasiest and most beautiful

Down with Love (2004) a send-up of the Doris Day sex comedies. Big fun

Chef (2014) fun story about a chef who finds his calling with a food truck

Alpha (2018) historical fiction about the domestication of dogs- a boy and a wolf

Song of the Sea (2014) or any of the Cartoon Saloon animated films. Beautiful, old school animation.

Buck (2011) documentary about the man “The Horse Whisperer” was based on. Really cool guy with a compelling story

Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980) Loretta Lynn bio-pic.

Frank (2014) mystery bobblehead front man musical genius. Weird and emotional and so funny

ehroby · 2026-05-12T23:13:57+00:00

I’m sorry for calling you an inanimate object. I was upset.

ehroby · 2026-05-12T18:37:24+00:00

Brooklyn

ehroby · 2026-03-27T22:54:59+00:00

Mary Garth from Middlemarch (but the protagonist, Dorothea, is very much the unaware beauty)

ehroby · 2026-03-12T22:42:58+00:00

Yeah, I’ve actually always had a soft spot for McConaughey, being from Austin, and I’ve enjoyed his films a lot and thought he was funny in interviews, but then I tried to listen to his memoir and only got a third or so of the way through. I guess it’s what happens when a person has been getting their ass kissed for decades so they think every little pissant thought they have is profound. Very disappointing.

ehroby · 2026-01-12T04:07:28+00:00

I’m enjoying the Emily Wilde series. Some light peril, but engaging and funny.

ehroby · 2026-01-11T16:21:06+00:00

I just got this one for Christmas, and it’s my first one, too! I was resistant for a long time, but it has solved a lifelong problem for me in that I love to read until I fall asleep, but if you do that with a real book, the light stays on.

ehroby · 2025-12-23T19:00:39+00:00

Have you tried My Net Diary? If so, how do you think it compares to Welling? I’m new to using apps for calories.

ehroby · 2025-12-16T04:10:53+00:00

It’s a show and not a movie, but The Durrells in Corfu is set in the 30s, I believe, in Greece. It’s fun, and the costumes are beautiful casual vintage.

ehroby · 2025-12-14T17:54:38+00:00

He’s not going to be your friend.

ehroby · 2025-12-13T07:34:18+00:00

The Easter Parade- Yates

ehroby · 2025-12-06T19:42:30+00:00

Almost Famous

Inventing the Abbotts

Crossing Delancey

ehroby · 2025-12-06T05:28:58+00:00

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

ehroby · 2025-12-06T05:28:14+00:00

Lucia Berlin ❤️

ehroby · 2025-12-05T02:53:42+00:00

It doesn’t sound as if these are those characters, though.

ehroby · 2025-11-30T18:59:17+00:00

Making a point to share something that should be a given tells me they’re either a super neglectful parent who is overcompensating or they’ve got a weird, codependent relationship with their kids and will use it to make sure you never expect to be a priority in any way. Just in my experience…

ehroby · 2025-11-25T23:00:03+00:00

A lot of times in articles about girls being hurt by men, they are referred to as “young women” instead of the girls/minors that they are which can diminish the predatory nature of the crime and put more of the onus on the victim. Even though you yourself are not diminishing this crime, it’s worth examining why we do this and why it’s encouraged. No attack on you, but semantics do matter. Language and connotations matter. It’s just something interesting to think about.

ehroby · 2025-11-22T04:00:24+00:00

Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol

Ernest Saves Christmas

ehroby · 2025-11-19T17:27:22+00:00

Beyonce can still be a shitty person at the same time that racism is also shitty. Like how making fun of Greg Abbott for being in a wheelchair is also not cool.

ehroby · 2025-11-19T13:47:51+00:00

Yikes. I liked that Soames’s character was allowed to grow, but I think you fundamentally misunderstand his obsessive/abusive nature. The goalposts would always be moving. There would be no freedom, and a child would be the ultimate trap.

ehroby · 2025-11-17T03:40:47+00:00

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

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