“What was the meaning of our youth?”
“The government didn't ask anybody's permission to start the war, but we're the ones stuck paying for all of it.”
26 years removed from Japan's debilitating WW2 defeat, a widow searches for the truth regarding the suspicious circumstances of her husband's death during the war. When she tracks down four survivors of her husband's garrison, they each provide wildly contrasting stories about his behavior in his final days.
Essentially, Under the Flag of…
Simply put, The Furious is cinematic catnip for fans of Vietnam's Furie franchise, Indonesia’s The Night Comes for Us and The Raid franchise, and similar gritty, hyper-kinetic, ultra-violent action fare.
What this film accomplishes with its fight choreography in the fatal 2v2v1 showdown at the end alone is something no Hollywood production has or could ever pull off.
I legitimately feel sorry for folks who imagine the John Wick franchise to be the pinnacle of action cinema when stuff like…
Hell isn't fire and brimstone. Hell is being trapped for eternity with people you resent, with people who see through every comforting lie you've ever told yourself.
Hell is other people.
Jacqueline Audry's cinematic adaptation of Sartre's No Exit stageplay thrives when it embraces the suffocating psychological warfare at the heart of the source material.
The film's drama centers on three characters who are all insufferable in their own way! Estelle - a vain, intensely selfish Parisian socialite. Inez -…
Idk, man...I legit don't know what I just saw. 😳😆😒
I'm jealous that so many people are able to enjoy this. For me, though, Titane's particular blend of batshit, bizarre, and bewildering elements didn't resonate with me.
At no point was I bored, but there were moments of exasperation. I don't think it's "bad," but I was glad when it was finally over.
I don't hate it. I feel...nothing. I'm utterly indifferent. This wasn't for me. And my indifference is to the point that I don't even care enough to attempt to articulate why it didn't work for me.
If the distinctly Black inspiration behind Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You, Jordan Peele's Get Out, and Malcolm D. Lee's Undercover Brother had a passionate tryst and made a cinematic lovechild. 🤌🏿🙌🏿✨
They Cloned Tyrone blesses us with an ideal blend of Black humor, Black ingenuity, Black existentialism (defined within the oppressive confines of white hegemony), and conscious Black "drapetomania."
Unapologetically Black and FUBU as fuck. Definitely Tupac's "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z." type energy insofar as there being ample nuances,…
