Brutal. One of Lynch’s most interesting films because it’s about one of his least sympathetic leads - if his other movies are about innocents stumbling into the boundaries between reality and nightmare, or even seeing the beauty in a flawed person’s deluded dreams, Lost Highway sees fantasy purely as delusion and self-exculpation to hide an even uglier reality. At the risk of cheap reduction, it’s the ugly male fantasy of power that counterpoints Mulholland Drive’s “female” dream of beauty and…
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Deadpool & Wolverine 2024
They really made a whole movie where the plot hinges on you knowing real world details of copyright disputes between production companies AND knowing how approximately 10 different movies failed to develop brand synergy as a result of those disputes. Imagine how incomprehensible this is going to be in 20 years. Between that and the Honda Odyssey thing this movie is more influenced by those “self-aware” car insurance commercials that Progressive or Geico make than it is to conventional story telling. Despite a terrible batting average it does manage to land a few jokes though
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The Hateful Eight 2015
All right, I admit it: I like the first half of this movie.
For about an hour or so, Quentin Tarantino admirably sets up a tinderbox of interesting characters. There’s a racial dynamic; there’s an oddly wordy stylishness that only he can write in his dialogue, even with a few eyerollers thrown in (alongside terrible attempts to show off an ear for regionalisms, leading a fairly cringeworthy assortment of accents.) There’s even an element of mystery that seems rare in…
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Lion of the Desert 1980
A look into the Libyan war against Italian occupation from the perspective of resistance Omar Mukhtar, a national hero in his country but little known in the west. Successfully manages to show how Mukhtar outsmarted the technologically advanced Italians for roughly 20 years without making him look like a comic book hero, making it one of the best looks at colonial conflict ever put to film. Even better, the film manages NOT to fully demonize the Italian forces, depicting a…
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