A plea for love, tolerance, and cooperation as the old world crumbles and a new world is born. Would be a great double feature with Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (2022).
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Straight Outta Compton 2015
It hits too many of the obvious beats of the worst post-Walk The Line music biopics. It frequently indulges a reference to the movie Friday or the brief glimpse of another contemporary west coast hip-hop star. However, pretty much everything else works exceptionally well here.
The genuine charisma of its stars and their tremendous chemistry when on screen together does a lot of surface-level heavy lifting. With O'Shea Jackson Jr., especially, becoming a bonafide star in his own right, it’s easy to forget…
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The Thin Red Line 1998
Watched for Chain Reaction Challenge (previous review: Carlito’s Way)
73. Watch a film that features Sean Penn in a starring role.
Beautiful, beautiful movie. Familiarity with Malick’s work from the 70s really opens this one up a lot, because he’s still asking the same questions about the nature of evil and human suffering. In Days of Heaven and Badlands, Malick points to human sin as a potential answer for the primary source of it all. It's our perverted, greedy desires, cooked…
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Babette's Feast 1987
Watched for Chain Reaction Challenge (previous review: The Virgin Spring)
34. Watch a film that was the first of its country to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
“Never would You give a stone or serpent to Your child who asks for bread”
In Babette’s Feast, love conquers all. Here is a close-knit community that has a survived a lifetime of austerity, until one day a rebellious soul presents them with a tiny taste of the passion and…
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