Rated Spy Kids 8/10
floop is a madman, help us save us
Rated Sambizanga 1/10
I think my biggest issue with Sambizanga is its opening wall of text setting up internal conflicts, revolution, and any number of other things that just...aren't actually relevant to the plot. A man is abducted and tortured, while his wife tries to track him down. That could have worked were it not for the setup leaving me with very different expectations for the tone and events of the film, but even so it spends too much time cutting away to this other subplot about some locals who see the abductors bring their victim in.
Rated The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo 4/10
Blandine Bellavoir continue d'être épatante même dans des rôles peu épais. Fanny Cottençon en fait des caisses dans le rôle de la maman, ce qui dessert le propos du film déjà très basique. Petit téléfilm sympatoche quoi. Note : Mère attachiante / 20
Rated It Was Just an Accident 6/10
Rated M*A*S*H 6/10
I've had "Suicide Is Painless" on a loop in my head for days, so I finally watched the movie all the way through. I'd only seen bits and pieces of it before tonight; I liked it. I sort of want to watch the series now. 🤔
Rated Teen Guerrillas 1/10
Koreans playing Americans took some getting used to; I wasn't even sure who they were supposed to be initially.I watched this on YouTube via a transfer so bad it was mostly impossible to tell who was whom and what was going on, which probably didn't help with my enjoyment of the film.
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Rated American Girl: Corinne Tan 6/10
Rated Black to the Future 4/10
Rated The Odyssey 6/10
This review may contain spoilers.I spent the last two days trying to grapple with it, but it did little for me I am afraid. The positives first: yes, yes, the spectacle. It's a long movie, but it stuck the landing for me with the "we are the sea peoples" dialogue. His Athena being just a priestess who fell victim to the sack of Troy was very potent. And the whole motif of the Bronze age collapse ties in with the current political moment we are living in, I for one at least was reminded of roving gangs of ICE agents, how fascism spurns civilization, and I want to give Nolan props for his political streak in his recent movies. But I felt it all was undercut _by_ the spectacle, by Matt Damon going—what I dub—Malignant-mode on a room full of suitors. I never really connected with any of it. Maybe I am the wrong audience for this, I never pretended to care about the Odyssey or ancient mythology, but I can't help but ask myself if this is the best we can do with it. Isn't an adaptation like the Coen's _O Brother Where Art Thou?_—an adaptation where the directors never actually read the source material—a better exploration of the human condition?I initially dismissed Tenet as well, but it has grown on me since, perhaps this one will as well, who's to say.Seen in IMAX.
Rated Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 6/10
I think I am too old to be put on the couch by the sixth movie in the Shrek franchise, sorry. How about the movies by Ernst Lubitsch? Is there any new Powell and Pressburger out? I need to catch up on my Fritz Langs.
Rated Earthquake Bird 10/10
Rated Lethal Weapon 3 7/10