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Sugar Cane Alley 1983
We open, more or less, on a mongoose fighting a snake in a cage fight. Jose, a young boy, gets in trouble for breaking his grandmother's, Ma Tine's, bowl. In his free time, Jose teaches the local boat driver, Carmen, the alphabet.
The community squabbles about the poor wages being paid to them by their overlords. One of the old men in the community, Medouze, tells Jose some riddles.
The children of the village find themselves in awe of finding…
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Pelle the Conqueror 1987
It's Sunday morning and I'm having coffee in bed, but I'm all out of Swedish wood strawberries.
Denmark. A father and son from Sweden have arrived on a boat. No one want's to help them: "The kid is too young." "Go back to Sweden." But, after all, "You shouldn't say yes to just anything."
Pelle and his father, Lasse, abruptly say yes to working on a farm. They are given a fly-ridden room. Pelle meets Rud, the bastard child of…
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001
Let’s be honest about how lucky we are this film was made in 2001 and not 2025, aesthetically speaking.
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2046 2004
Pretty young things of Echo Park take notes: this is how you correctly rock a mustache.
Years ago, I had a brief fling with a woman for three months. It ended with her hiking me up a mountain, cutting my hair, and moving to Morocco the next morning. We amiably agreed never to speak to each other again. I remember the whole thing fondly, even if we didn’t quite cut a hole into a tree.
At one juncture in life,…
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The Brutalist 2024
Let's talk about nice things! This film contains:
My favorite score of the year
My favorite supporting performance of the year
Great photography
Great pacingI also love Italian anarchists and marble quarries!
The interplay between the artist and patron and the way László has to navigate surviving as a poor immigrant in America is excellent.
Let's talk about muddy things!Is the epilog suggesting that the mute and wheelchair bound László is having his life's work usurped by Zionism? …
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The Killer 2023
Muscular, but mostly gaunt. It sounds good and looks yellow. The voiceover can border on cringe. A less ambitious Fight Club with fewer ideas. An imposter Michael Mann film without the actual cool. Fincher leaning into most of his worst impulses. Mostly a bummer, but it can at least hold your attention for two hours.
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