redflag
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Member Since: 10 Oct 2013
Location: CA, USA
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Sekigun-PFLP: Sekai senso sengen (1971) - Rated 31 Jul 2025
Archer (2009) - Rated 09 Jul 2025
"At it's best, the funniest show on TV with characters, wit, and knowing homages I care a lot about. The first ~6 seasons are mostly solid. By the time of the "dream" seasons, the show has long overstayed its welcome. Still, all the way to the end, the show has great moments/jokes sprinkled throughout."
Loin du Vietnam (1967) - Rated 07 Jul 2025
"Another powerful Vietnam documentary, this time a fragmented anthology that invites us to unite around a new, nondualist form of identity where "Over There" is actually "Here Now." As poignantly relevant then as it is today as we bomb Gaza to a human, concrete aerosol. Is it too late to learn and turn away?"
Now You See Me (2013) - Rated 02 Jul 2025
"LOL."
True Detective - Season 1 (2014) - Rated 01 Jul 2025
"Darker than Mindhunter and approaching Twin Peaks levels of horror. Fantastic. Man searching to Do the Right Thing in a vast universe beyond any control."
Carry-On (2024) - Rated 01 Jul 2025
"Dumb as hell."
Ran (1985) - Rated 23 Jun 2025
"Probably Kurosawa's masterpiece, a perfect adaptation of King Lear (with some Macbeth tossed in, too.) Tragedy writ large, epic nihilism. And yet it's funny, too! Like Barry Lyndon (and King Lear for that matter), the tail end of feudalism on film, a stilted, stifling world of absurd rules and obligations. But so much more..."
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) - Rated 19 Jun 2025
""I suppose I'm moved by this absurd performance." Anderson off the rails again, in one of his most laugh-out-loud (or at least ironic head-smacking-and-burst-of-air-recognition-funny) films. Stunningly beautiful sets, a gentle (perhaps offensively so, given current realities- private utopian outpost?) political message, and a giant middle finger to the audience (and critics) unwilling to go along for the (exhausting, but fun) ride. Del Toro is great and Anderson should keep Cera on retainer."
Nerawareta gakuen (1981) - Rated 04 Jun 2025
"Light and silly, good entertainment, with some brief flirtations with serious themes of fascism, depression, and sexual awakening. Could have been wackier."
Crank: High Voltage (2009) - Rated 02 Jun 2025
"2 Cranked 2 Stupid: Fully Loaded MAxXx. I mean, it's garbage, but hilarious garbage. And it put images in my brain that I never expected from cinema: from horse dicks and ferret testicles to a man losing an elbow and another man chopping off his own nipples. Fun for the whole family! Vote 4 Pedro!"
