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Unpacking the hateful version of history at the 91st Academy Awards
In 1915, Epoch Producing Co. released what is widely considered to be the first epic film, though there is some pushback against that, Birth of a Nation. In the film, after chronicling the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham … Continue reading
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Tagged #birth of a nation, #django unchained, #donald trump, Black Klansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Bryan Singer, Eat Shit Disney, Freddie Mercury, Green Book, Hays Code, John Ottman, John Ottman was complicit in Bryan Singer's abuse, Ku Klux Klan, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Remi Malek, revisionist history, Ronald Reagan was the fucking antichrist, The Last Samurai, very fine people on both sides, White Savior
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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
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
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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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