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The Manchurian Candidate 2004
I used to think this was pointless. Now I think it’s vital. One of the great films made during the George W. Bush administration. Relentlessly cynical about government, the military, ambition, and motherhood. Radically prescient about the way we perceive corporatism, political theater, mental illness, and rage-fueled paranoia stoked by power at the highest levels via media manipulation. Remarkable how this fatalistic script smashes together with Demme’s zooming, Boomer humanism. You wanna see why Barry Jenkins and Paul Thomas Anderson…
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Lovers Rock 2020
The unironic “Kung Fu Fighting” needle drop was a top 5 most ecstatic moment of quarantine. I’d follow McQueen into the ocean.
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006
This hasn’t aged well...NOT!