Woe betide the parent who mistakenly takes their little one to the OTHER Dogman title expecting age appropriate hijinks and instead finds Luc Besson’s drag queen revenge thriller. Captures the wild irreverence of the children’s books really well; showcasing why this series is so popular to begin with (personally happy they included 80HD robot here). The comedy comes at you fast, as the rapid joke delivery is akin to a Tina Fey vehicle like 30 Rock where you’re still laughing…
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024
Engaging and enraging, this scathing indictment of American interventionist policy weaves a dizzying assemblage of jazz concert, Cold War geopolitical thriller, and blistering essay film offering keen analysis of the neo-colonialist axis. A bracing polemic that cites its research sources through onscreen text; Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez crafts a densely layered piece of pop agitprop that uses the CIA backed assassination of Congolese President Patrice Lumumba under the cover of a Louis Armstrong tour as a focal point and delves…
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Uptight 1968
This is one of those subversive movies that makes you wonder how it ever got financed and distributed from a major studio. Directed by Hollywood Blacklisted exile Jules Dassin and co-written by Ruby Dee, the film opens with documentary footage of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s funeral procession (this was released just 6 months after his assassination). Concerning the tactics of a group of Black revolutionaries, this politically charged film possesses a true radical spirit. Questioning the efficacy of King’s favored…
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The Lighthouse 2019
Like a sea shanty from H.P. Lovecraft, this is pure visionary madness. A mesmeric work of elemental fury with influences from Hitchcock, Dreyer, and Bergman; this chamber piece psychodrama plays like a workplace comedy filtered through a Freudian nightmare. Images of detritus and creatures from nautical folklore abound, creating a fever dream atmosphere that makes the putrid setting feel wholly immersive (all gorgeously rendered in inky b/w photography).
Filmmaker Robert Eggers follows up The VVitch with another meticulously researched period…
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