Ella

Management Consultant specializing in Strategy| Chartered Accountant| Bibliophile 📚 | Building @8_9luxegifting

[Ella @__ellah___]

On January 1st this year, I picked up my Bible, and this was the very first page I opened to. I took it as my word for the year because it resonated so deeply with where I was at the time.

I’m not out of that season yet, but I’ve come to know that His grace truly is sufficient.

[Henry @Henry404gd]

dear life, please don't be too hard on me. I don't have any shoulders to cry on, I'm alone.

[Going To Find What’s Really Mine @DoesHappen]

I enjoy seeing stuff I’ve never thought I’d care to know..

[Ella @__ellah___]

Had an unhealthy amount of pastries today and I’m so happy. Give me 100 butter croissants, 50 pain au chocolat, 50 cinnamon rolls, and 3 apple turnovers from Xo boutique bakery any day 🙈

[ً @artfuIchaos]

sometimes a book or a show is five stars because it's a masterpiece. sometimes it's five stars because it made my brain release dopamine. both are valid.

[Ella @__ellah___]

I haven’t hated a book character as much as Natalie in Yesteryear since Queenie back in 2020.

At least Queenie made me feel sorry for her. Natalie, on the other hand, inspires nothing but pure frustration. Absolutely no sympathy and not a single redeeming quality in her.

[Lisa @lisathebeauty1]

Sisterhood? What a concept!🥹💗 Happy National Girlfriends day to my girls!!🌸

[📖🎧ྀི @inkandseerah]

For a bookworm, I spend an awful lot of time on the internet.

[Summie's write @RuthSummie]

My bookshelf is a graveyard of people I’ve never met but loved.

[Ella @__ellah___]

Just tried out the AI skin analysis on the Tulip body care website and I’m very impressed 👏🏾👏🏾.

Especially cause you can choose your budget so it recommends products you can afford.

[Smriii @smriiis_reading]

crying over a book is one of the most prominent sign of compassion for humanity. because you're crying over someone who isn’t really there, doesn’t really exist, but you still feel for them as if you've known them your entire life.

[Palermista🇸🇪 @palermismo]

La gente se queja de los diálogos expositivos del cine de Nolan pero hay gente que genuinamente ve una película donde el protagonista explica TRES VECES de manera directa algo y aún así salen de la sala sin haberlo entendido

[Ethereal♡ @Lilys_verses]

“I don't know what to get you.”

Books, please. The answer is books. Every single time.

[Sue♡ @bookslattess]

You seem to be doomscrolling a lot for a girl who has 20+ unread books.

[Oreoluwa Bukola, CFA. @BukkyOA]

Can’t lie to you. If you don’t make a move, you will see literal clowns race past you. Clowns.

Nothing concern life with ‘I am a smart, educated, experienced person’.

You don’t act, you remain there.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Nolan built a 35-foot, 8,000-pound Trojan horse, sank it into a Moroccan beach, and had 250 actors drag it out with ropes. And that wasn't even the hard part of shooting the fall of Troy without a green screen.

The hard part was the fire. IMAX film stock needs far more light than digital sensors, and a city-sized set full of open flame is both a fire hazard and too dim to expose properly. So the production built over 1,000 custom 4-foot LED panels called Pyrohedrons, each programmed with natural flame-flicker profiles, capable of illuminating set pieces up to a mile away.

Read that again. To film a real city burning, they had to fake the fire.

The set itself was real. Troy covered 110,000 square feet, held 60 structures and 2,000 extras, with a full recreation of the temple of Athena inside the walls. Nolan built multiple Trojan horses and submerged one in the Atlantic so waves would tear pieces off it before the cast hauled it over log rollers.

There's a technical reason he refuses digital effects, and it's math, not nostalgia. Adding a digital effect to film means scanning the original negative at reduced resolution, compositing, then printing it back. Every effect permanently degrades the image. Shooting practical is how you keep native IMAX resolution end to end.

And the bet paid off in 3 days. $250M budget, R-rated, no franchise, no superhero. It opened to $264M globally, Nolan's biggest launch ever, with premium formats driving 53% of domestic sales and 70mm showings at 3am selling out. The craft is the marketing.

[Ella @__ellah___]

Up and again thinking about The Odyssey 🥺

What an excellent performance and storytelling. 100s across board 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[TMV @JIRGLARTW]

This is arguably the greatest cinema scene of 2026. Matt Damon was as shocked as I was. Christopher Nolan cooked

[Ella @__ellah___]

The Odyssey is such a worthy 3 hour movie 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾. Not once was I not hooked.

Christopher Nolan had the entire Lagos or at least all the seats at iMAX filled to watch the Odyssey on a Thursday night.

Also, I shall be reading Circe cause need to know what the witch’s story.

[Ella @__ellah___]

God abeg 😂😂

Ordered shawarma from my (ex) faves on Tuesday and chewed on plastic, complained and they sent a replacement.

Guess who just found hair in her replacement shawarma.

Not even going to report it, time to find a new lunch spot.