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in Op-edSunday Scaries: There’s Been a… Slight Misuse… of the Satire
The more it sits with me, the more I like The Substance, Coralie Fargeat’s brazen, in-your-face, gruesome satire of… well, a lot of things. Some of which works and some which doesn’t, but the messy reflection of the writer/director’s own sense of aggrievement at the result of unfair patriarchal standards – including how those standards […] More
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Lucius Fox Should Be Ashamed of Himself!
I’ve been thinking about Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, lately. One of the, in hindsight, most influential movies of the 21st century so far, for better and for worse. It effectively locked its director in place as being one of the “Big Names” who can actually sell a blockbuster off of him being the director […] More
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When Movies Show You What They Are, Believe Them the First Time
I spent my high school years in a small and conservative-bordering-on-reactionary town in the south, so Evangelical Christianity dominated the culture of my community, and The Passion of the Christ was everywhere in the spring of 2004. The crowds that I saw in my theater for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the […] More
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Get Woke, Go… Oh, Wait
Ah, man. This is unfortunate. Remember Gina Carano? That poor, victimized millionaire freethinker who was canceled by the Woke Left for pulling a whoopsie-doodle antisemitism and transphobia in a very public way? She had to strike out on her own after the notoriously outspoken lefty activists at The Walt Disney Corporation wouldn’t let her continue […] More
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Perfecting the Wheel in 2022
For those of you who haven’t checked them out yet, the rest of the Awards Radar staff writers have unveiled their own top ten films of last year. Unlike the more eclectic lists of 2021, several common favorites popped up at or near the very top this time around: RRR, The Fabelmans, and Everything Everywhere […] More
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Juneteenth: The Day Racism Ended Forever
Happy Juneteenth, everyone! Now it’s officially a federal holiday, which is good because, as our public education system is determined to teach the next generation, that was the day that there was no more racism ever in America. Unfortunately, outside agitators want to make us white people feel bad and have difficult conversations about such […] More
