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Snow White 2025
Gal Gadot’s evil camp performance combined with the dark ride “Scary Adventures” psychedelia of the CGI dwarfs made Snow White (2025) a vaguely compelling installment in the Disney live-action canon, but the musical numbers felt uninspired and flat (except for Rachel Zegler’s powerhouse vocals, which carry the film), auto-tuned to death, poorly mixed, and cheesy, especially the “Princess Problems” number, which is sung by a Robin Hood-coded bandit character played by Andrew Burnap, who isn’t a prince, which is probably what Zegler…
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Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows 1998
A raw exposé-style documentary about the ethics and bizarro culture of a not-yet corporatized pro wrestling circuit as a cutthroat PT Barnum-style “circus” driven by power struggles, humongous egos, paranoia, tragic figures, fractured honor codes, jealously, and Montreal-based screw jobs. One of the “tragic figures” is the wrestler and Old West cowboy-coded Canadian hero, Bret “The Hitman” Hart, and this is the story of how he got SCREWED.
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The Birdcage 1996
One of the funniest and most un-PC screwball comedies ever made with gorgeous set design, biting political satire, colorful south beach attire and decor, theatrical, over-the-top acting (every scene feels like a Broadway play), cinematography (the first shot is a visual feast), and a fine-tuned script by the great Elaine May that is smarter than it gets credit for in the pantheon of great screwball scripts by masters of the genre (e.g., Howard Hawks).
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