And a new genre is born - I'm going to call it manipulative science fiction. The name for this short film is apropos given its lazy reach for significance.
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Zero Dark Thirty 2012
Every American would benefit from watching this film. It provides the perfect decade long retelling of real life events in a complex manner only appropriate for the topic it covers. It is ambivalent in its stance on many important issues, left for the viewer to analyze in their own right.
I'm also surprised about the 'pro-torture' backlash... I saw nothing absurd or unlikely in this film. Given how strongly our government advocated for 'advanced interrogation' and their defense of it,…
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Big Trouble in Little China 1986
Like a fine scotch, Big Trouble in Little Chine becomes better with age, showing overtones of a smokey oak followed by a prolonged, peaty finish.