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‘21 Bridges’ deftly navigates tightrope of action, social pitfalls
8/10 Is 21 Bridges exploitative? Is it cop-friendly propaganda? It’s a damn good action movie, is what it is. In 21 Bridges, two hired assassins, Michael Trujillo and Ray Jackson (Stephan James and Taylor Kitsch), kill eight NYPD officers in … Continue reading
Birth of a Nation a pompous, myopic waste of film
Birth of a Nation fails to effectively tell its story on several fundamental levels. It is an inept execution of a concept that was weak to begin with. The Birth of a Nation is a dramatic retelling of the Nat Turner (Nate Parker, who also … Continue reading
A word about commodifying homosexuality
Representation of minorities and women have always been important, and they’ve become increasingly important to the public over the past few years. For political reasons both flimsy and painfully real — the Black Lives Matter movement and all the death … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged #black lives matter, #blacklivesmatter, #matt damon, #oscarssowhite, #simon pegg, #star trek beyond, Black Captain America, gay representation in film, Gay Sulu, Gay sulu is tokenism, George Takei, Ghostbusters is an exploitation film, Hikaru Sulu, James Bond is pansexual, lady Thor, minority representation in film, representation of women in film, silencing minority voices, Social justice warriors
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The Möbius strip: The Martian takes another crown as another weekend flops
The Martian won the weekend again as all three new releases laid eggs. The weekend’s total, $70.1 million, is the year’s lowest, though this is predictable for a Halloween weekend- Box Office Mojo Bradley Cooper and Sandra Bullock vehicles Burnt and Our Brand is … Continue reading
Posted in The Möbius strip
Tagged #20th Century Fox, #aloha, #ant-man, #aziz ansari, #Batfleck, #batman vs superman, #Ben Affleck, #black lives matter, #burnt, #china, #daniel craig, #dirty grandpa, #django unchained, #don bluth, #dragon's lair, #george clooney, #harrison ford, #hillary clinton, #hurricane sandy, #imax, #indiana jones, #jamie foxx, #jar jar binks is an abomination, #jem and the holograms, #jurrassic world, #lisa kudrow, #martin scorsese, #noriyoshi ohrai, #our brand is crisis, #paramount, #parks and recreation, #quinten tarantino, #robert de niro, #roman polanski, #sandra bullock, #sicario, #spectre, #star wars, #steve jobs, #suffragette, #suicide squad, #the empire strikes back, #the exorcist, #the force awakens, #the graduate, #the hateful 8, #the martian, #until dawn, #william friedkin, #zac efron, bradley cooper, Jason Blum, Transformers
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Straight Outta ways to tell a story
Biopics can go one of two ways — a ritualistic re-telling of a historic caricature or an encapsulation of the conflict and triumph in an individual’s life. Straight Outta Compton, perhaps more sadly than any other, is the former. The movie goes … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #biopics, #black lives matter, #corey hawkins, #darth vader, #dr dre, #eazy e, #father and son, #fuck tha police, #ice cube, #institutional racism, #jason mitchell, #keith stanfield, #lube is important, #michael brown, #no justice no peace, #no vaseline, #o'shea jackson jr, #paul giamatti, #rodney king, #snoop dogg, #story structure, #the predator, #time is a flat circle, #vaseline, Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher, Moneyball
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