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by Greg Carlson | Cinema | September 25th, 2020
…Polymath artist Miranda July adds an excellent new title to her filmography with “Kajillionaire.” As hard to reduce or simplify as “Me and You and Everyone We Know” and “The Future,” July’s latest movie—which contemplates parenthood and family ties under the idiosyncratic lens of the filmmaker’s built-from-scratch microscope…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 20th, 2020
…The Death of Empire by A Thousand CutsSome empires last longer than others. Rome was one. The Chinese empire died the death of a thousand cuts they made famous a thousand years ago. But the Chinese heart that was sliced centuries ago evidently was put on life support, because it…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 15th, 2020
…The New Normal: The Senate Of The Living DeadIn the 1968 film classic The Night Of The Living Dead, the dead have come back to life and are marching through forests and farms looking for food. They look just like us except for the eyes, the drooling, and the rotten…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | September 15th, 2020
…“(Kafka’s) world knows no physical or moral order…We, the readers, are reliving our bad dreams…punishment is over all the characters, but the crime remains mysteriously hidden…” - William Hubben“The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | September 15th, 2020
…Well-deserved praise for writer-director Amy Seimetz’s efficient and provocative “She Dies Tomorrow” almost inevitably points to the film’s eerie timeliness as a metaphor for pandemic-inspired malaise and disequilibrium. More interesting, however, is the split among observers who interpret Seimetz’s intended tone in different ways. Some claim the movie is hilarious,…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | September 7th, 2020
…“The vast majority of African-Americans who lived in this land in the first 246 years of what is now the United States lived under the terror of people who had absolute power over their bodies and their very breath, subject to people who faced no sanction for any atrocity they…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 7th, 2020
…How Many People Can Retire For Forty Years?King Donald got a lot of votes in coal country stretching from West Virginia to North Dakota in 2016 by lying that he would bring coal back. He is a good salesman as most narcissistic psychopaths are. But it never happened—and it is…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | September 7th, 2020
…Charlie Kaufman, the unfairly talented and imaginative cinematic magician whose screenplays and films have explored the realms of art, artifice, and identity over the course of a dizzying career, lifts the curtain on another masterful storytelling exercise. “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” is based on Iain Reid’s 2016 novel, but…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | August 31st, 2020
…“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” – Ralph Elison, Invisible Man, 1951 “Although the (1965) Voting Rights Act was sponsored by a…pro-civil-rights president who was…a Southern Democrat, most Southern Democrats opposed it. However, (LBJ) could count on strong support from Republicans: In the House, 82%…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | August 31st, 2020
…Director Arthur Jones makes his auspicious feature debut with “Feels Good Man,” an engrossing and timely documentary that examines the phenomenon of artist Matt Furie’s Pepe the Frog. Created by Furie in 2005 for the comic “Boy’s Club,” Pepe’s now iconic visage morphed into a surprisingly durable meme—made…