Archive for 2014
Wednesday, December 31st, 2014
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Propaganda is now very important. Those who write it, earn big bucks. Modern life is rubbish and you're welcome to it. By Raúl Ilargi Meijer.
From just about as early in my life as I can remember, growing up as a child in Holland, there were stories ...
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2014
Peter Jackson finishes off his Hobbit trilogy, The Battle Of The Five Armies (2014), by having a very "human" Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) who makes the entire ordeal worth watching, says Critic After Dark Noel Vera.
[Spoilers alert!] Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies (2014) is big, ...
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2014
On July 17, 2014, Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over the Eastern Ukraine. On August 8, 2014, the four investigating nations - Ukraine, the Netherlands, Australia and Belgium - signed an agreement that the results of the investigation would not be published unless all four countries agreed. As ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014
Richard LInklater's Boyhood (2014) has a kind of modest charm and delivers a serviceable ode to the melancholy vagaries that make up an American adolescent's life. As Critic After Dark Noel Vera says, it might even be Linklater's best movie yet.
Boyhood's biggest selling point is the gimmick everyone's been ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
There is a rising "independent" mainstream but what does it mean to be "independent"? By Philip Cheah.
Earlier this year, I was trying to write a snapshot history of several South-East Asian cinemas when I realized that several names don't exist in the common commentaries.
For example, if you see the Wikipedia ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
Lesbian sex in a girls' school, throw in whippings, bondage and torture yet Kota Yoshida's The Torture Club (2014) still feels somewhat lacking. Stephen Tan reviews.
How times change. Back in 1973, The Exorcist created an uproar when the possessed Regan masturbated with a crucifix. Although there is no insertion shown... ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2014
Joel Williamson's Elvis biography, Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, places the singer’s life and career in the context of his upbringing as a working class white youth in the US South. Review by Ron Jacobs.
I never considered myself a big Elvis Presley fan. My primary connection to him was that ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2014
Interstellar (2014) is a hodgepodge of influences that Christopher Nolan stuffs into an all-inclusive science-fiction extravaganza that's almost three hours long. He also hits his target with admirable precision, says Critic After Dark Noel Vera.
Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014) starts out very Grapes of Wrath and ends up a little Book ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
When the cops enter, why does violence inevitably become the first resort? By Paul Craig Roberts.
Few, if any, of the correct questions were asked in the grand jury hearing to decide whether policeman Darren Wilson would be indicted for killing Michael Brown.
The most important unexamined question is whether police are ...
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
If only it was a myriad of sins under the cover of a blanket in Hisayasu Sato's The Bedroom (aka Unfaithful Wife: Shameful Torture, 1992). Throw in a peeping tom of a husband, drugged-out sex and a broken psyche and it's one hallucinatory ride. Stephen Tan reviews.
Kyoko looks like a ...
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