Director Francis Ford Coppola, notable for having an absolutely medium-defining run in the 1970s (50 years ago), self-financed this movie that he also wrote and directed himself. Many people are applauding this as a celebration of a true auteur, someone daring to lay it all on the line as he nears the end of his life. After a string of failures, the king has returned, they say, and we should cheer for a man who dares to make something so…
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No Other Land 2024
I sit here on the night of the 2024 Presidential election, and I weep. Because I know no matter who wins, this will continue. The uniparty serves to advance the American Imperialist Machine at the expense of all morality and decency and ethics. My taxes pay for genocide. There is nothing I can do. I am literally powerless in the face of Evil.
I have always considered Israel to be an apartheid state, but before a year ago I…
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Starlet 2012
Really simple, pretty sweet, even kind of funny! Nice spin on an 'Odd Couple' type story. At first I wasn't really buying the friendship but I should have trusted Baker because the movie does the work of making it believable, and in the end I had a great time hanging with these weirdos and oddballs. Some shockingly dated moments ("Retard", an uncensored N, etc), but it doesn't ruin the vibe. Not sure it "adds to the authenticity" either but it's…
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Top Gun: Maverick 2022
The way everyone was saying “ignore the insidious politics, the movie is really fun and the action is top notch”, I was expecting more. So much of this is just so *lame*, tons of Hollywood sucking its own dick and Cruise doing his modern era Cruise thing. The only reason anyone even likes this is the final mission, which is devoid of any tension because, like, you know they aren’t gonna kill anybody. You can always tell with movies like…
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Pretend That You Love Me 2020
Reading some of the newer reviews from people in Film Club is breaking my heart a bit, so I wanted to give some deeper thoughts and explain why I chose this film to share and why it means so much to me.
I've spoken before on here about how and why Joel is a huge inspiration to me. I think it's a very common feeling for aspiring artists to feel stuck when they're just starting out and attempting to break…
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Macbeth 1979
This is my favorite interpretation of Macbeth and it isn't really even close.
I know this is kind of cheating because it's a play on tape and not a film, but this really is just that good.
Words cannot describe or do it justice. It's simply a collection of the best actors in the world doing what they do best. These performers were allowed to dive into the material and play around in the muck. It's so raw and immediate.…
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