Literally incendiary. Playing The Beatles (prior to Monterey) and Dylan is Hendrix establishing the bona fides of his tastes (not “just” another blues-obsessed rock act) and a statement of artistic merit. These are my peers, he’s saying. Saying that before the audience really knows who you are is a hell of a check to write. But he knew he had the money in the bank.
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The Roaring Twenties 1939
Great, great, great. Cagney is fantastic, as is sneering Bogart. And it’s up front about tracing the connection between the population of returning soldiers, the lack of economic opportunity, prohibition, and the accessibility of automatic weapons in creating organized crime as we know it. Loved it.
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Top Gun: Maverick 2022
I feel the need… the need for expertly crafted, thrilling sequels to 35-year-old movies that we absolutely didn’t need but I am so glad we have.
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No Time to Die 2021
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The more plates this thing got spinning, the more I expected a collapse into incoherence, inevitable under the strain of so much sheer narrative overload.
But, then, it just kind of… hung together? It wobbles, but it never falls, and then it finds some actual weight, and actual stakes, which is ultimately what I think keeps the whole thing pinned together.
I’ve always thought Craig is an excellent vehicle for some of the more complicated psychological examinations of Bond these…
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