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Wicked 2024
As one of the few gay men I know who has never seen the stratospherically popular original musical "Wicked," I find this fact to be both a curse and a blessing. It’s a curse because I lack the emotional context that has moved so many others during key moments in the film. However, it’s also a blessing because, aside from knowing a few of the original songs, I can watch the movie without comparing it to the musical.
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Gladiator II 2024
Gladiator 2 review:
Ridley Scott, the director of two of the greatest films of all time—‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Alien’—has seen the quality of his recent films decline significantly. His latest projects, particularly ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings,’ ‘House of Gucci,’ and ‘Napoleon,’ have been woeful. While he still excels in creating grandeur and spectacle, the emotional depth of his films and, notably, his scripts have felt quite lacking lately. Although ‘Gladiator 2’ stands out as one of his better recent films,…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
Review of ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
In one of the opening iconic shots members of the Osage native Americans dance around an oil blowout as it rains down on them black gold. This imagery of raining black oil with its religious undertones of dark anointment, sets the tone of foreboding doom of this monumental biblical American epic by one of the greatest living directors of all time Scorsese. Based on the true, devastating tale of the Osage tribe who…
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Megalopolis 2024
Review of ‘Megalopolis’
Having finally watched Francis Ford Coppola’s decade long passion project it’s now clear that these two statements are simultaneously true: he is the director of three of the greatest films of all time ‘The Godfather Part 1 and 2’ and ‘Apocalypse Now’ and is also the director of one of the worst films in recent memory ‘Megalopolis’.
Now before I explain how epically bat-s**t terrible this film is I need to give credit where credit is due.…
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