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  Friendly Persuasion 1956

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Jun 2022

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Ranking the Different Types of Civil War Stories Part 1/7 “Anti-Lost Cause” Films

  Mini Review of "Friendly Persuasion (1956)"

  Pros:
  • Pro Union Protagonists: The Birdwell family, the Jordan family, Enoch, and the rest of Jennings County, Indiana are all Pro Union citizens that have nothing nice to say about Confederates or the Confederacy.
  • Confederate Antagonists: One of the earliest examples of having Confederate villains in a Hollywood film. Confederates are tied to slavery multiple times and are shown…

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  Cowboys 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Dec 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Cowboys (2020) is a criminally underrated film that I'm convinced is going to be considered a Transgender classic in the coming years. Steve Zahn gives one of the best performances of his career as Troy, a troubled father who is trying to do the best for his Trans son Joe but is going about it the wrong way by running off with Joe to Canada. Joe's mother Sally (Jillian Bell) isn't a bad person but either doesn't understand that Joe…

Popular reviews

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  Interstellar 2014

  ★★★★½ Added 4

  "Do not go gentle into that good night,
  Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
  Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

  In short, this film is the lovechild of Gravity & 2001: A Space Odyssey. In long, this film is a lovingly crafted deeply contemplative science fiction drama. The majority of the complaints I got about this film from people (besides the ones I listed below) boil down to the fact that most of the real…

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  Thumbelina 1994

  ½ Added 8

  Don Bluth was a former Disney employee who became disillusioned with the company after their age of mediocrity following Walt Disney’s death and decided to strike out on his own to compete with Disney by showing people what painstakingly hand drawn animation and more mature story telling could do for the animation industry. Don Bluth actually succeeded at competing with Disney in the 80s with a string of hits (winners are based on my opinions, not reflective of box-office intake):…