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Cover-Up
(2025)
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Part Sherlock Holmes, Columbo and enigmatic CIA dirt tracker, secrecy buster Superman - Seymour Hersh is finally receiving his long overdue acclaim in the film, Cover-Up. But is he thrilled at the prospect. Apparently, not so much.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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Lilly
(2024)
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Diving into the glut of superhero-saturated cinema, a workplace feminist slips in...
Posted Jul 24, 2025
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Sunlight
(2024)
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Not exactly Father's Day fare in theaters with the holiday approaching. But in effect a puppet noir subversive Father's Day offering about two distinct damaged offspring, finding borderline bizarre unlikely salvation together in each other's broken lives.
Posted Jun 05, 2025
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Self Driver
(2024)
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A Taxi Driver 21st century digital descent into a differently depraved reality. Economic crisis cinema crashes deeper into the low wage surveillance state in this ironically titled 'Self Driver' - driven or lured into the pseudo-independent workplace.
Posted Apr 24, 2025
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Liquor Bank
(2025)
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Temptation, timing, and tough love. Condensing the emotional turmoil into this short film is daunting and commendable to say the least, but seems to beg for more.
Posted Mar 12, 2025
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Anuja
(2025)
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ANUJA - A tale of survival touching on charity, class, mythmaking and mass consciousness.
Posted Feb 13, 2025
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Number 24
(2024)
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Ventures into the past while inevitably and in this case incidentally reflecting on troubling moral alongside military implications - and no less so in the case of Norway's past and conflicted, simultaneous battle of soil and soul present moment in time.
Posted Jan 09, 2025
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A Complete Unknown
(2024)
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A Complete Unknown indeed. Audiences embracing the film may be bringing their own sentimental memory baggage into the theaters, perhaps turned on more by a perception that this is a musical than otherwise.
Posted Dec 29, 2024
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The Order
(2024)
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A neo-western crime thriller serving up in this order, cult personality over politics. Rather than decisive illumination as to where this country is headed politically - a government with its own support of neo-nazis abroad militarily in the here and now.
Posted Oct 10, 2024
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Wolfs
(2024)
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Noir gets a deep state makeover. And did I mention the wildly prophetic, astonishing plot twist addition of pager spyware, way before that digital genocidal scheme in this breaking news moment in time. Welcome to the 21st century US surveillance state.
Posted Oct 02, 2024
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Blood Star
(2024)
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Low wage police state is the new noir..
Posted Sep 20, 2024
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Rebel Ridge
(2024)
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A split personality, class conscious action thriller, the film at its core is insurrectionary cinema. questioning the deteriorating political, ethical and racist core of this country. And Pierre's action hero referencing Watergate, ties it all up tightly.
Posted Sep 04, 2024
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Skincare
(2024)
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A neon lit neo-noir paradox stew of murder and mayhem mixed messages and metaphors alike that may be a true story in more ways than one. A Hollywood emperor has no clothes mass manipulation of audiences, along with the underbelly beast of capitalism.
Posted Aug 21, 2024
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The G
(2023)
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The G summons her own inner gangsta dormant these many decades, letting loose on miscreants in multiple scary and inventive ways. Though taking time out for some seductive senior sex moves - not shy in flaunting her liberating erotic septuagenarian flesh.
Posted Jun 05, 2024
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Adam the First
(2024)
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Suffice it to say, that whatever conventional circumstances exist in the real world concerning lost and found children, best to enter this tale of somewhat biblical proportions as suggested in the title, with an extraordinarily open mind.
Posted May 18, 2024
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Lazareth
(2024)
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So what may all of this have to do with audience existence beyond the big screen - itself ironically a seeming psychological fortress. Namely younger generations that have only known endless war all their lives. And with no alternative political reality.
Posted May 07, 2024
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The Fox
(2023)
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A Tale Of Two Stories: Coloring The Past, While Whitewashing History. In other words, surrounding a bittersweet tender tale, the guilt cleansing de-Nazification of the European historical imagination in progress across the continent.
Posted Apr 04, 2024
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American Star
(2024)
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Much more than just another crime thriller, the ironically titled now wrecked American Star luxury cruise ship commandeered by the US military during World War II, as allegory symbolizing endless US wars and terror visited upon a bruise and broken planet.
Posted Jan 25, 2024
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Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story
(2022)
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When Bette Davis said old age is not for sissies, she likely had in mind the acting world as well. And this film is a marvelous tribute to that, a defiant romance on and off screen between these long term lovers with a passion for acting and each other.
Posted Dec 15, 2023
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The Zone of Interest
(2023)
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A banality of evil update shocker. While just past the actual Auschwitz wall in the film to the fourth wall there, breaking through to mass denial of genocide right now. As a public drugged on movie sensory overload diverts to the usual escapist euphoria.
Posted Dec 06, 2023
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Oppenheimer
(2023)
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Nuclear noir spectator sports, a poison apple metaphorically intimating apocalyptic original sin, bombs, bombshells, and that buried Operation Paper Clip elephant in the room.
Posted Dec 02, 2023
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The Taste of Things
(2023)
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Class, Cuisine And Labor As Aphrodisiac. And the best foreign film this year. While surely a reflection of Hung's life experience - returning to his native Vietnam as an adult to decipher the mystery in film of radical transformation there to socialism.
Posted Nov 29, 2023
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Killers of the Flower Moon
(2023)
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A killer of historical truth as well. With a seeming connection dropped from the title, 'The Birth Of The FBI' - and the US continuing that not unrelated pseudo-messianic urge, millions in the world slaughtered in that deplorable bid to 'save democracy.'
Posted Nov 23, 2023
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Memory
(2023)
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Superheroes in shabby clothing. And no longer the muscular mythologies of blockbuster saviors, rebel urges are rising from the bottom, the broken, belittled oppressed outcasts subversively redefining the 'happy ending' as rather new beginnings instead.
Posted Nov 16, 2023
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At the Gates
(2022)
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Multiple scenarios progressively and relentlessly raise the dramatic racial tensions and claustrophobic psychological horror to a fevered pitch, that to say more would dampen the smoldering, masterfully conceived proceedings.
Posted Nov 01, 2023
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Sharper
(2023)
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A New World Order noir in political death throes but still clinging to relevance even while withering away globally, Sharper gets it right unmasking without mercy US cutthroat culture. But a narrative scripted by Hollywood financing, namely Wall Street.
Posted Oct 26, 2023
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What You Wish For
(2023)
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Food for thought fascism on the menu. And increasingly in films created by a younger generation, as a collective future bereft of possibility, locked into an involuntary eat the poor servitude both financially and psychologically to an oppressive system.
Posted Sep 20, 2023
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El Conde
(2023)
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Equal Parts Pinochet And Peter Pan Noir...As the horrific history of the general turned murderous dictator gets a pass as his cinematic vampire eludes this 50 year anniversary of that 'other' 9/11, fateful Chilean coup.
Posted Sep 05, 2023
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The Attachment Diaries
(2021)
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Dreary Depravity Noir. And while this odious banquet of lesbian torture porn may not thrill everyone in the audience - there is a distinct compatibility with the mass consciousness homicidal horrors of endless wars those audiences are living through.
Posted Jul 16, 2023
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Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour
(1998)
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Takes liberties beyond grass roots challenges to legal implications, venturing into dimensions of perspective as well. That is, perception over creation, and how even a commercial entity can be transformed when engaged with popular movement consciousness.
Posted Jun 15, 2023
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1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed
(2023)
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The results are candid, mostly upbeat, but occasionally blistering as to their confused place in a racially confounding society. And though the space for a more expansive probe is limited by one hour, a multitude of thoughts and feelings are expressed.
Posted May 02, 2023
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Hannah Ha Ha
(2022)
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Hopefully the Andrea Riseborough victory will unshackle the invisibility of these salt of the earth, working class regional gems of cinema - illuminating the unrecognized, unspoken lives of real people all around us, as in this slow burn existential epic.
Posted Feb 04, 2023
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She Said
(2022)
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Sex, lies and victim porn. And an elephant in the newsroom, more self-congratulatory promo for the NY Times. While intimating a kind of fox in the hen house cover for damage control related to the paper's own numerous scandals, and as common in the media.
Posted Dec 19, 2022
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Emancipation
(2022)
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Same slavery, different day. And Fuqua's finest contribution to 'critical race theory cinema.' In fact emancipation yet to be attained violating the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, among the mostly millions of color incarcerated in forced slave labor.
Posted Dec 13, 2022
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Armageddon Time
(2022)
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Critical race and class theory cinema at its finest, and a meditative descent into that coming of age troubling time of life. Though the shining light in this tough love tale is it led to that bruised but determined class conscious filmmaker - James Gray.
Posted Dec 01, 2022
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Gone in the Night
(2022)
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A weird combo cougar shaming sci-fi horror spree buffet, don't ask, the film takes freaky fountain of youth generation gap cinema to the next level that seems to get lost somewhere along the way - whether as a confusion of plot points or genres.
Posted Aug 05, 2022
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The Forgiven
(2021)
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Ugly Americans galore update on steroids. And a distorted inside looking out cultural perspective, a circular narrative conveying little closure. With McDonagh trapped in the befuddled, tragic figure of David, as both his designated character and persona.
Posted Jul 05, 2022
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
(2022)
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Sex Work Is The New Black Mammy. And elephants in the room of invisible blackness, the 'happy slave' to only fulfill the white characters, the sexualized black male caricature - and buying a sex toy instead of all the cash spent on this pointless movie.
Posted Jun 18, 2022
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Peace in the Valley
(2022)
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An impressive film about survivor grief that would have stood on its own - minus the questions it never asks or explores about the enormously controversial sidelined issues - rampant mass shootings plagued by the absence of gun control in this country
Posted Jun 16, 2022
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Deep in the Forest
(2021)
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Cancel Culture Cinema Rules: An attempt to tantalize with the controversial topic of a right wing takeover in this country. But wherever their intrepid characters are headed - the filmmakers end with a decidedly timid position on their part in comparison
Posted Jun 04, 2022
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Alice
(2022)
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Critical race theory on steroids - and the best action hero so far this year. In other words, Right On. As for Common, Keke Palmer's trucker guiding light in this rebel road movie connecting slavery to working class oppression today - Keep on Truckin'.
Posted Mar 17, 2022
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France
(2021)
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Dumont's mansplained femme fatale nation. And whether France the country or its failed female metaphor, all dressing literally and no substance politically, and nowhere to go. And fictitious scenario media and moviemaking alike, going along to get along.
Posted Feb 13, 2022
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The Lost Daughter
(2021)
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Pandemic fatigue cinema rules the awards with sympathetic portrayals of repugnant self-hating protagonists, fear or mockery of the 'other' disgruntled masses rising up on the left and right, and film world dread in the downward spiraling low wage economy.
Posted Jan 01, 2022
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Small Time
(2020)
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Emma's belly of the beast strange sanctuary may not be your own, but those plastic couches, grilled cheese suppers, drugs, guns, war on terror PTSD and constant 'praying hard' to Jesus for who knows what inexplicable salvation, could not be more palpable.
Posted Dec 29, 2021
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The Unforgivable
(2021)
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In the US with its shameful history as the most mass incarcerated country in the world, just hand the Oscar to Bullock for her ex-con's defiant, devastating performance. And the director's keen sense of Italian neo-realism crafting this doomed landscape.
Posted Nov 25, 2021
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The Manor
(2021)
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A refreshing trend of elderly female action heroes, Hershey still strutting her inner Boxcar Bertha seems to be no exception. And with an ironic, realistic if brutal existential weight as to conflicted life under capitalism, in this horror fantasy.
Posted Oct 09, 2021
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Karen
(2021)
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Methinks The Karens Doth Protest Too Much. Oh and by the way, the review mocking the film's 'wailing trumpeter for some reason' - that happens to be renowned Grammy Award winning jazz musician Keyon Harrold Sr., a victim with his young son, of Soho Karen.
Posted Sep 03, 2021
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499
(2020)
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499, Friday The 13th, and the 500 year anniversary of a doomed Mexico - and a stunning, unconventional Mexican film mixing drama and documentary, mass ideological enlightenment, and laced with poetic imaginative historical storytelling.
Posted Aug 27, 2021
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Never Gonna Snow Again
(2020)
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Consumerism, communism, and the weather. In any case, written and directed with subversive nihilistic glee, the film teases with a combo playful and sobering prophetic perspective on the way things are, or progressively will be.
Posted Aug 05, 2021
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Mama Weed
(2020)
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Huppert's 'arresting' charisma rules in this daring Economic Crisis Cinema gem. Flaunting a subversive female-centric literally undercover fashion statement superhero shopping spree, as the new weapon of choice scene of the crime scenario on screen.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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