America studied in its most unforgiving landscape during the early decades of the 20th century. A country presided by the likes of Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding and controlled by massive businesses like Standard Oil, the land of the free has never been more free and more restrained at the same time. World War I, the Red Scare, the Teapot Dome scandal and the rise of the evangelical movement are among some of the more notorious events that make up this…
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Nymphomaniac 2014
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Nymphomaniac is such a powerful and unequivocal celebration of cinema. And if you don’t think so, you’re stupid. On every level of filmmaking, this movie is just as groundbreaking and revolutionary as Lawrence of Arabia, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Pulp Fiction, Mulholland Drive were with what they explored. Nymphomaniac is epic, grand, unapologetic, sumptuous and leaves you with a masterful story of morality, good vs. bad, human impulses, morbid and beautiful curiosity and above all else,…
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Eyes Wide Shut 1999
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Eyes Wide Shut is a passable movie, about an innately bad idea with very poor execution. Stanley Kubrick’s last movie feels like the movie equivalent of that Dr Seuss cartoon where he is balancing three books in one hand and holding a pitchfork in the other with an aquarium on top of it. The movie introduces too many plot points but with not enough story development. Its brutalizing pace would only work if those scenes actually had something to offer,…
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