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  • The Jungle Book

  • Pulp Fiction

    ★★★★½

  • The Giving Tree

  • Blade Runner

    ★★★★½

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  • The Jungle Book

    The Jungle Book

    In Unnecessary EBITA's 2016 The Jungle Book, Shere Khan is a strict constructionist upholding the common Law Of The Jungle against the encroachment of foreign colonialism, ironically represented by a native Indian. Instead of story the movie uses CGI to ask what kind of world we want to live in: a rational democracy that ensures all animals are equal; or a racialist anarchy become tyranny that sees the state of nature as a violent interspecies struggle for resources? “The tiger…

  • Pulp Fiction

    Pulp Fiction

    ★★★★½

    The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and goodwill, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper, and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will…

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  • Shame

    Shame

    ★★★★

    Shame is a movie that if you haven't seen by now, you won't, but for damn sure don't attempt to watch it on a flight to Chicago. What you've probably heard is that it is a bleak but honest movie about sex addiction and maybe about incest, full of nudity and uncircumcised penis dangling deliciously between some toned Irish Catholic's legs as he urinates. Sound like something you want to see? Hold that thought.

    How do you feel after three…

  • Django Unchained

    Django Unchained

    ★★★★½

    In Django Unchained, evil slaveowner Leonardo DiCaprio asks a question. Sorry, back up: why does everyone call him an evil slaveowner? As far as I can tell, he was a pretty average slaveowner, I'd even say he was "kind", in the sense that all his slaves "like" him, and he rarely "tortures" anyone and by the use of quotes you can see I'm hedging, my point here is how quickly people have to broadcast their indignancy. "He's evil." So what…

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