It’s just a bit less than Goldfinger but it very nearly comes close to that magic. It has a Roald Dahl script going completely off book, a story about space craft eating other space craft, a volcano lair, piranha, and lots of Japansploitation. For some reason, it is missing that special something that Goldfinger had.
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Thunderball 1965
All 1.5 stars of this is for the adorable sharks in a pool.
Sean Connery isn’t as slick or confident as he has been in the previous three movies. It’s like his moneyed wealthy confidence been replaced with working class roughness. He moves a bit clunkier, his hair is a lot flatter (I think he had just come off filming The Hill, where his hair was much shorter than usual), his face is less distinguished. Everything about him is like…
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I Am Not Your Negro 2016
"My countryman is my enemy."
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James Baldwin was a queer black man. He had sex with men. And he was black. The closest this film comes to acknowledging that James Baldwin had sex with men is a text about his FBI files which states that he may be a homosexual. Otherwise, there is a photo of him holding three young girls, almost insinuating they're his daughters, and interviews with Dick Cavett talking about his children, that he didn't have.…
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God's Not Dead 2014
Oh. My. God.
So, there's this philosophy professor who's an atheist because his mom died of cancer when he was 12. He's dating this 25 year old Christian whose 85-year-old mother has Alzheimer's Disease and a fondness for chicken. The 25-year-old's father is only like 50, and doesn't visit his ex-wife. Like the professor, Business Dad is also an atheist. He was dating a 25-year-old, until she revealed she had cancer. That 25-year-old atheist got cancer after conducting a Gotcha…
