It’s good to see that A Christmas Carol is getting a recent anti-capitalist reappraisal pointing out that Scrooge’s volte-face doesn’t really do anything to challenge the status quo or, indeed, really change things for anyone (beyond Tiny Tim who will probably grow up pampered and privileged and want to make a lot of money like his second father Scrooge).
However, what I have yet to see is acknowledgement of The Muppet Christmas Carol’s true problem: Scrooge’s nephew Fred. Sure, he…
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I too would like to direct a movie where I come back as Jesus at the end.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
So apparently Tom Ford considers Nocturnal Animals a “cautionary tale” about a woman "letting go of her true soulmate."
A cautionary tale.
Specifically for Susan (Amy Adams), the successful but lonely art gallery owner who comes to regret the fact that she left the first love of her life, poor writer Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal) for a wealthier man (Armie Hammer). After she reads his newest novella, in which the characters representing her and her daughter are brutally raped and murdered.…
