At a Q&A after the film, co-writer/co-director Ray Mendoza reiterated that Warfare, the new A24 film about a group of soldiers caught in a battle during the Iraq War, was not a political film. On the surface, you see what he’s aiming for: Warfare forgoes any context about the war itself, the mission, the character’s lives outside of this 90 minute stretch. Based on an actual event that happened during Mendoza’s time serving in Iraq, the film tries to piece…
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Kulej. All That Glitters Isn’t Gold 2024
For a 2.5 hour film about a famous athlete covering a four year period of his life, I was surprised by just how little happens in Kulej. Or, should I say, how little of this story isn’t standard boxer biopic (the triumph of victory, the humbling after the big win, too much alcohol, hanging out with the wrong crowd, wife and family problems, affairs, car accidents, redemption…stop me if you think that you’ve heard this one before).
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Takeshi Kaneshiro playing a repressed, uptight rich businessman in well-tailored suits in a romcom that pits him against a Manic Pixie Dream Chef is totally my aesthetic.
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The Princess Switch: Switched Again 2020
Christopher Nolan found dead in a ditch after the layers of complexity in this deception. Inception wishes. Give Vanessa Hudgens both the Best Actress and the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her work here. There better be four Vanessa Hudgenses in the next film.
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