The Safdies are in the small group of directors to emerge in the last 10 years that get me excited.
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W. 2008
"Axis of... Hatred?"
"No... something about it just misses..."This highlight-reel of the Bush Era's Greatest Hits felt redundant in 2008, and now plays like pure 2000s kitsch. It's an eerie and uncanny experience seeing these once-familiar incidents badly re-enacted by celebs.
The tone veers gracelessly from earnest drama to ham-fisted satire (we see a cable news show called "Spinball"). Every piece of exposition is crammed with factoids. Certain of the performances (Thandie Newton as Condoleezza Rice, Jeffrey Wright as…
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Hellzapoppin' 1941
Mind-blowing. We still haven't caught up to this.
Entire gags were lifted wholesale for the much-more-famous Daffy Duck cartoon DUCK AMUCK.
The Rosebud sled from CITIZEN KANE makes a cameo appearance.
Great Shemp Howard performance, too.
