In Elijah Bynum’s Magazine Dreams, Jonathan Majors plays a roided-up rage monster who hurts those unfortunate enough to cross his warpath. I'll let you do the association to real life events on your own here. It’s a shame, truly, that Majors, who was convicted of assaulting his ex-girlfriend before being swiftly ejected from the MCU, is a person of objectively questionable actions. Because he’s also an objectively great actor. His turn in Magazine Dreams—as an emotionally-isolated, physically imposing bodybuilder with…
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The Elephant Man 1980
Lynch is at his most unwaveringly sentimental and emotionally raw here. A portrait of the two societies we find ourselves wedged between, encapsulated by two men: one exploitive, the other a healer - and how their similarities and differences make up our humanity. John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins are wonderful.
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The Matrix Resurrections 2021
The spoon may not exist but after watching this third Matrix sequel, you’d wish it didn’t either. A numbing retread of past Matrix antics fastened onto an exasperatingly dull attempt at a desperate revival, The Matrix: Resurrections is a bizarre, lumbering attempt to breath one final breathe into a franchise that redefined science-fiction action when it was first released in 1999. If the intention of this clunker is to make you appreciate the other sequels, job very well done. I…
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The Alpinist 2021
The crux of Nick Rosen and Peter Mortimer’s (The Dawn Wall) thrilling new climbing documentary The Alpinist is self-described “true dirtbag” Marc-André Leclerc. Leclerc, a 23-year old Canadian alpine free solo enthusiast-turned-pioneer, is in many ways the antithesis of many modern climbers. Seeking fame is not and never has been his purpose, the documentary beginning with Leclerc as more of a mythical easter egg, a whisper within the upper rungs of the climbing community. Much like The Sparks are “your…
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