MY FAVORITE REVIEWS ON LBX
Last update: March 28, 2023
A collection of reviews that I think everyone should read. Some of them are great analysis, some are a cry for help, some are both and all the things.
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After Yang by taliesin82
Bongwater by Bilbo Ballin
Nope by David James
Part of the Films That Promote Humanism collection.
McCabe is a small, insecure guy. He cocks his bowler forward, checks his waistband watch, takes a deep drag off his cigar and then puffs his chest out like he's auditioning for the role of Titan of Industry.
He's a chickenshit bullshitter ("That man? That man never killed anybody") kind of by design because he's counting on bluster and gumption to lift him to the top of the heap. But he hasn't…
If you are reading this chances are you are neither exceptionally wealthy or poor. But right now, as I write this in March, the year of the pandemic, the world is collapsing around us.
That means, because of the systemic fragility of runaway capitalism, that you are in real danger of tumbling from the working/middle class into the band of poverty below you.
You can feel the danger inside you. It is palpable. You can hear it your boss’s hesitant…
[There are SPOILERS in the 5th paragraph but that’s OK because you should NOT see this film.]
Here’s what happened in 1970:
The FBI manipulated facts and created a completely false narrative in order to fuck with Jean Seberg because she said nice things about black people.
Here’s what happened in 2020:
A white Hollywood writer couple with legacy pedigree and an Icelandic via Australian director manipulated facts and created a completely false narrative in order to fuck with Jean…
