MY FAVORITE REVIEWS ON LBX
Last update: Apr 30, 2022
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.
If you like this idea you should do it too! I’d love to know what your fav reviews are!
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Rebecca by theriverjordan
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood by Lizzy
Morocco by Savage ☽◯☾
The Big Lewbowski by David James…
The permission given to young people to distance themselves from "toxic" relationships has devolved into the mal-appropriated 'cancel' and so the ancient stories of the Prodigal Son from the West (Luke 15) and the East (Lotus Sutra chap. 4) or any descendant rendering of Young Person Estranged from Parent is, all of a sudden, given a razor sharp acuity in 2022.
The sons all gripe about dad withholding money in the ancient version which translates to a mother fat shaming…
Carlin used audience discomfort via vulgarity and nihilism as a tool to tell his truth. In this film Stephen Colbert (as a talking head expert on Carlin) didn't trust Carlin's audience to "follow" that the expression of "dark" things was exposé commentary. In fact his Occam's Razor explanation was that Carlin was simply that nihilist and Colbert thought that was icky.
Colbert and Roseanne were looking for that Don Rickles wink-wink It Was all a Joke philosophical "back door." When…
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…
