Though it took me around five different sittings, I felt I had to watch The Birth of a Nation atleast once because I feel to ignore and forget it would be to ignore and forget the injustices and destruction it, and its ideology, has caused (and still is causing).
I must say, however, I've noticed alot of five star reviews on here beginning with something along the lines of "If you can look past the racism..."
How can you look…
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ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke 2019
To be clear, this isn't a documentary about the 'killing' of Sam Cooke. His death isn't discussed until the last 15 minutes of the film. Instead, the film focuses on the life and political activities of the famed singer. Certainly a topic worthy of being explored, but to present your film as an exploration into the complicated death of Cooke and only devote 15 minutes to the event is a creative misstep.
My biggest problem with the film is that…
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 2019
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Many people are hailing the "9th film by Quentin Tarantino" a magnificent and subversive dissection of Hollywood. I, on the other hand, am calling it a passion-piece by an egotist who has been given complete creative freedom.
The first 2 hours of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is just a bunch of nothing. There is next to no significant plot to follow, instead Tarantino flexes his film-buff muscles by stuffing the film with parodically shot films-within-the-film that go on…
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