~~~ US agrees multi-billion-dollar aid package for Ukraine after MONTHS of pleading from Zelensky for help Useless Republicans wanted to be Useful Idiots for Russia so that they could get away from...
2.3 Stars Episodes 1 and 2 I watched the first two episodes with expected boredom. I'm fairly certain the rest of the season would struggle to maintain or drop below this benchmark. There were a slop load of overdramatic slow motion fights, which were an attempt to emulate and translate The Fallout games gore filled combat to screen. Stale, but not terrible, CGI for settings and characters. Everything...
3.7 Stars Obviously this will probably only really be interesting to you if you care about Apocalypse Now or film making. Lots of stories about production problems involving, replacing lead actors, working with The Philippines government during a rebellion, and fat ass Marlon Brando, trying to come up with poetic crap to say while the cameras roll
4.0 Stars Apocalypse Now is a ridiculous film. It is a product of so many things/ideas, A classic literary work (Heart of Darkness), an expression of America's cultural confusion and regret from the Vietnam War, and the hellish production of the film its self. This is why it has so much staying power in the canon of films. It's a conversation piece that can be followed down so many different avenues...
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Civil War: based or cringe? That is the million-dollar question.
Your gut tells you that because it is a Hollywood film, it will be an evil MAGAs versus virtuous libtards cringefest with...
.@bfwalter on America shifting to minority White makeup: "To a subset of the White population here this is deeply, deeply threatening… They see the United States as a White Christian country. And they...
A Review of Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” All lovers of horror movies have developed the faculty of seeing the deeper visions hidden behind layers of shlock. I liken it to a kind of...
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African Ingenuity: Grave-Robbers in Sierra Leone Grind Up Human Bones and Roll Them Into Joints Black people invented everything, including the IQ test, but as everyone knows, white supremacists...
3.1 Stars If you like hidden messages containing fragmented factoids spread out to allow a viewer to rationalize meaning from a typical A24 schizo subversion slop film, Under Silver Lake fits the bill. From what I could tell the decoded messages point to a "wow dude, money is such a heckin abstract concept and it makes people crazy", kind of takeaway. The subtext and themes are all a bunch of reddit...
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English football fans in Europe during the 1980s and ‘90s were not ambassadors either for the British game or Britain itself. Increasingly cheap flights across Europe meant that vast numbers...
I’ve done three straight weeks of politics, so let’s lighten the mood with the Holocaust. Wait, that came out wrong. I mean, let’s lighten the mood with Hollywood. And the Holocaust. Readers have...
3.1 Stars Perfect Days is a film that tries to make you feel how mundane and consistent a Tokyo janitor's day to day routines are. After you have been lulled into a pleasant boredom from seeing the focus character of the film trim his mustache, select a cassette tape to listen to on his commute, and scrub a toilet a couple times, the relatively minor surprises and anomalies to his structured days...
Konstantinos Volanakis, Naval Battle of Salamis (1882)
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Six victorious generals, including the son of Athens’ greatest statesman, Pericles, made their way to the dais of...
Activists and government ministers are demanding more non-whites in the English countryside. MP David Lammy does not think it is diverse enough.
Is rural Britain ‘racist’?
@DavidLammy notices he’s...
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