Dutch Public TV spoof on Zelensky’s meeting with Trump and Vance – by Klikbeet
Welcome! Groupthink doesn't live here, critical thought does. Punk heart still beating. This ad-free website is dedicated to Agnès Varda…
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THE BRUTALIST
Director/co-writer Brady Corbet has made an overwrought, unlit, postwar [fictional] epic with an unreliable protagonist that is as frustrating as…
THE BRUTALIST
Director/co-writer Brady Corbet has made an overwrought, unlit, postwar epic with an unreliable protagonist that is as frustrating as any…
THE NIGHT PORTER — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
BDSM, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, Cult Film, Erotic, FIVE STARS, LGBTQ, Romantic Drama, sex, Transgressive Cinema, War, Women Filmmakers, Women's Cinema
Director/co-writer Liliana Cavani’s mind-bending reflection on the Nazi era is a pure filmic transmogrification of power, war, sex, personal identity,…
LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT — SHOCKTOBER!
B-Movie, BDSM, Capsules Blog, Crime Thriller, Cult Film, Grindhouse, Horror, Independent Cinema, Re-boot, Serial Killer, sex, Sexploitation, SHOCKTOBER!, Social Satire, Transgressive Cinema, War, ZERO STARS
Wes Craven’s debut film is everything wrong with exploitation cinema. Mean spirited to its core, this film’s overriding theme seems…
JULIAN ASSANGE — “I CHOSE FREEDOM OVER JUSTICE”
America, Articles Blog, Corporate Corruption, Corporate Culture, Culture, Current Affairs, Editorial, Media, Politics, U.S. Law, War, Web/Tech, Women Filmmakers
JULIAN ASSANGE — “I CHOSE FREEDOM OVER JUSTICE”
THE BIKERIDERS
FIVE STARS, Hollywood, LGBTQ, Punk, Reviews Blog, sex, Social Satire, Transgressive Cinema, War, Women's Cinema
Tom Hardy and Austin Butler have their hands full keeping up with Jodie Comer. “The Bikeriders” is an actor’s actors…
THE BIKERIDERS
Capsules Blog, FIVE STARS, Hollywood, Politics, Punk, sex, Social Satire, Transgressive Cinema, War, Women's Cinema
Primary to Jeff Nichols’s brilliant five-act film is the female perspective of its protagonist Kathy. Jodie Comer gives an Oscar-worthy…
IN PRAISE OF LOVE — CANNES 2001
Art Film, Avant-Garde, Cannes Film Festival, Capsules Blog, Corporate Corruption, Cult Film, Experimental, FIVE STARS, French Cinema, French New Wave, Hollywood, Independent Cinema, Transgressive Cinema, War, Women's Cinema
Welcome! Groupthink doesn’t live here, critical thought does. This ad-free website is dedicated to Agnès Varda and to Luis Buñuel.…
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE — CANNES 2000
Cannes Film Festival, Chinese Cinema, Classic Cinema, FIVE STARS, Reviews Blog, Romantic Fantasy, War, Women's Cinema
Wong Kar Wai’s masterpiece of romantic longing, emotional expression, and unrequited love, is a cinematic poem that stretches across time…
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE — CANNES 2000
Cannes Film Festival, Capsules Blog, Chinese Cinema, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, Romantic Fantasy, War, Women's Cinema
Wong Kar Wai’s masterpiece of romantic longing, emotional expression, and unrequited love, is a cinematic poem that stretches across time…
OPPENHEIMER
Academy Awards, Biopic, Capsules Blog, Historical Drama, Propaganda, sex, TWO STARS, War, War Fantasy
Cillian Murphy gives an incomparable virtuosic portrayal of the man responsible for creating the Atom Bomb. Murphy’s fierce performance is…
BARBIE
Agitprop, BDSM, Children's Cinema, Coming-of-Age, Corporate Corruption, Cult Film, Dance, Exploitation, Fantasy, Hollywood, Musical, Propaganda, Reviews Blog, sex, Sexploitation, War, ZERO STARS
Preachy, insipid, wrongheaded, and mean-spirited, “Barbie” is by far the worst movie (or more accurately, commercial) I have ever witnessed.…
RUSTIN
Academy Awards, African American Cinema, Agitprop, Biopic, Capsules Blog, FIVE STARS, LGBTQ, Politics, sex, True Crime, War
Welcome! Groupthink doesn't live here, critical thought does. This ad-free website is dedicated to Agnès Varda and to Luis Buñuel.…
HOUSE — SHOCKTOBER!
Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, Cult Film, Dystopia, FIVE STARS, Horror, Japanese Cinema, Political Psychological Drama, Political Satire, Punk, Rock 'n' Roll, Sexploitation, SHOCKTOBER!, Social Satire, Surrealism, Transgressive Cinema, War, War Fantasy, Women's Cinema
Visually and viscerally stunning from start to finish, “House” is much more than a mere masterpiece. Cole Smithey.
PAN’S LABYRINTH — SHOCKTOBER!
Cannes Film Festival, Capsules Blog, Children's Cinema, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, Cult Film, FOUR STARS, Horror, Mexican Cinema, Political Satire, SHOCKTOBER!, Social Satire, War, War Fantasy, Women's Cinema
In discussing the leftist political themes of “The Devil’s Backbone” and “Pan’s Labyrinth,” gothic horror maestro Guillermo del Toro responds…
STARSHIP TROOPERS — SHOCKTOBER!
Black Comedy, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Corporate Corruption, Cult Film, FIVE STARS, Horror, Literary Adaptation, Political Satire, Sci-Fi, SHOCKTOBER!, Social Satire, War, War Fantasy, Women's Cinema
“Starship Troopers” is a canny war satire that outshines even Kubrick’s great satire “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to…
FORBIDDEN GAMES — SHOCKTOBER!
Black and White, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, French Cinema, Horror, Literary Adaptation, SHOCKTOBER!, Social Realism, Social Satire, War, War Fantasy
Rene Clement’s 1952 adaptation of Francois Boyer’s 1944 novel is an exquisitely pragmatic film about the corruptive effect of war…
THE HOST — SHOCKTOBER!
Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Cult Film, FOUR STARS, Horror, Korean Cinema, SHOCKTOBER!, Social Satire, War
Part social satire, horror, comedy, and family drama “The Host” is an exciting example of cinematic bravura that signals a…
COLE SMITHEY’S CLASSIC CINEMA
