A kitty cat navigates the liquefaction of western liberalism beneath a flood of populism and disarray.
History, institutions, identity and shelter sink beneath a rising tide that engulfs everything but the hegemonic powers able to soar above it all. The small and the slow and the easily distracted are forced into coalition, steered by the broken, ejected liberal consensus that knows where to find the high ground, but must ultimately let go and make way.
Waters may recede. New arenas…
Full of turning points, the best and worst kinds.
Callaghan's work is always about radical empathy. It's pumped his online content full of people revealing and unloading and gushing and exposing and spilling from the most urgently fringy perspectives America is loaded with... Bits of human reality plucked out of the highest-frequency, highest-volume parts of the simulacrum.
Trailer-level description: Kelly is a four-banging conservative you'd find filibustering in the parking lots of abortion clinics, far-right political rallies, and protests of…
I look forward to 20 years from now when I've seen more of the films time has to offer, and can still say this is among the greatest ever made. PTA tapped something unreal and nightmarish with this film, and it frightens me in a way no horror movie has ever managed.
"The story, in which a group of SEALS stumble upon a Muslim extremist’s plot to sneak some suicide bombers into America equipped with some particularly nasty gear, barely has the twists and turns to fill out an episode of 24, much less a feature film. It also employs some of the cheesiest villainy imaginable, including an over-the-top act of terrorism that sets up our bad guy all the way through his final plan that of course involves the Mexican/US border…
