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No Retreat, No Surrender 1986
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"Are you kidding? Her brother's my sensei: She's spoken for.... BY ME."
The origins of No Retreat, No Surrender date back as far as the 1960s, when the United States government commissioned it as part of Project MK-Ultra during the Cold War. Desperate to gain the upper-hand, the CIA sought to create the ultimate psychological tool: A film which functions as both a form of torture and a rousing piece of propaganda for the masses. So keen were they on…
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Towards Tenderness 2016
"The power of judgment, shame, is stronger than the desire to attain love. But love, once it's been attained, is stronger than shame. So it's a bit stupid."
Simple and controlled but remarkably nuanced in its explorative analysis. Men on the verge of love, smothered by cultural and self-imposed clots. A rousing exercise in empathy, however challenging it is at times to feel. A quietly deafening call to action.
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The Lusty Men 1952
Graveyard of deluded, prideful masculinity. It sets itself in an arena which functions as an expression of its society, of its cyclical destruction. Men drunk on pride and ambition, egotistical, who buy into the myth that they all can become great, for they were born with primal superiority over beast and women. The complete devaluation and deception of women; the lie of respect and consideration of their desires, sacrificed at the altar of the man's dream. Why would he quit…
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The Reflecting Skin 1990
Finally threw this on only to be met with, on the day of his death coincidentally, belter after belter of Dick Pope photographing the Albertan landscape and young Viggo “Sexiest To Ever Do It” Mortensen. Slow burn that reveals itself to be, among many things, an anguished cry from the depths of lonely childhood. An ending that I’ll think of often and despairingly.
Rip The Pope.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021
Roger Ebert had a quote once about using songs in film. His observation was, if the song you used had previously been used in a better movie, all it will do is make the viewer wish they were watching that movie instead of yours.
I don’t know of a more apt analogy for this film than that. This is as embarrassing of a display of masturbatory intellectual property as I’ve seen. It’s fascinating sitting in a theater listening to a…
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Carol for Another Christmas 1964
All I could think throughout this viewing is A. how ridiculous it is that this film is so under the radar, and B. that it's probably the most hardcore/insane Christmas Carol adaptation ever made. How does a Rod Serling written, Joseph Mankiewicz directed Dickens adaptation starring Sterling Hayden, Ben Gazzara, Peter Sellers, Eva Marie Saint and Robert Shaw not get brought up even casually for reappraisal? Well, apparently it went unseen for forty-eight years until TCM dug it up a…
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