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Nope 2022
Jordan Peele was probably right to bring TMZ into it in the 9th inning. After two hours in this churning, elliptical ecosystem of filming, consuming, and purging, why not make too fine a point of it and bring in the horseman/scooterman of our video-mediated apocalypse. I was driving down Sunset recently and stopped at a light next to the TMZ tourbus and I nearly jumped out of my skin when I heard the woman on the PA system bleat out…
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Elvis 2022
Realized while watching this that what Baz Luhrmann does has less in common with most narrative film than it does with those giant Dorling-Kindersley books called just like ROCKS or DINOSAURS or ANCIENT EGYPT that were in every silent reading corner when I was in elementary school, or that big cross section of the TITANIC that was the hottest ticket for a while. Just hitting you with every conceivable image and feeling, arranged like tetris pieces with only a cursory…
