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Starship Troopers 1997
I have to say I did not expect such an incisive antifascist commentary on media and propaganda even knowing in advance the satirical nature of this film. Almost a bit too on the nose here at the start of the second Trump era.
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Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 2005
I once heard someone say that if Revenge of the Sith were a book rather than a film, it would be brilliant (there is a novelization by the way, one many consider excellent). Why? Because so many of its ideas, its mythopoetic themes, draw on our natural attraction toward the sublime, but their execution in the film-version is often ham-fisted. That evaluation is no doubt true. And yet, if one can look past the occasional moments of juvenile silliness, the…
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The Brutalist 2024
For the first half of this film, I was utterly enthralled. True to its theme and titular architectural style, The Brutalist is monumental in practically every way—visually, narratively, stylistically. Early on, László Tóth, a Hungarian-born Jewish architect played by Adrien Brody, emerges from the bowels of a ship bound to United States and sees the Statue of Liberty. It is an almost cliché moment, one depicted in countless fictional and documentary media, but the shot is unforgettable, an immediate signal of…
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