unfortunately i had a very good time watching (and rewatching) this, but since people seem to want blood and decided this was the MCU movie in need of the adorno & horkheimer treatment here's a couple of left critiques you can run with
"thor 4 endorses azov's recruitment of child soldiers and new asgard is a paramilitary training ground for contras in service of capital"
"new asgard is asgard's reform and opening up phase in a revisionist semi-periphy/core collaboration against the…
news about RFK’s friend, who was also shot the night he was assassinated, wanting to reopen the investigation (sirhan innocent)* dropped in the middle of watching this at 1am and drove home how many of de palma’s radical political preoccupations were prominent (surveillance/assassinations/de facto MKULTRA) in what on the surface initially comes off like a campy music industry satire.
It’s a good thing I waited until after books like CHAOS, weird scenes in the canyon and the FBI vs Tupac broke my…
the amount of people I’m seeing post-sundance doing free labor for the CIA and “bearing witness” to China’s covid response when the US has 400k+ dead, mass poverty and no end in sight to China’s toll of 4635 suggests more people should read the Vijay Prashad, Du Xiaojun, and Weiyan Zhu piece about China’s actual covid response vs the ongoing Cold War 2.0 disinformation campaign about it.
www.thetricontinental.org/studies-2-coronavirus/
some useful excerpts:
1. A key – and underreported – part of the response…
say what u will about godard but at least weekend had the foresight to condemn all the boomer sellouts in the big chill to a cannibal holocaust.
by this point the film's rep has sunk to where pointing out why it's bad is like shooting fish in a barrel but it's still galling in a film with no black characters that there's a conversation where a lawyer says she left public defending because all her clients were (cw) scum of…
