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Looking for Bedford Falls

February 4, 2023 Tom OsborneLeave a comment

Capra's storytelling makes it unavoidably clear that when we solely pursue our own ends, we create miserable, rootless communities defined by greed, cruelty, and indifference; places where living is expensive, and where being good to one another is unaffordable.

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Hear No Evil

October 24, 2022 Tom OsborneLeave a comment

It has to be said Mangold is perhaps the only filmmaker, at least that I'm aware of, who could successfully set a western, neo-noir thriller in the shadow of New York City.

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Empty Radicalism

September 24, 2022February 4, 2023 Tom OsborneLeave a comment

Years steaped in the war against foreign tyranny had slowly tranformed Hitchens into a cold iconoclast; a liberal indifferent to banal injustice.

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Better Forever to Have Been

August 17, 2022September 24, 2022 Tom OsborneLeave a comment

Antinatalism is a cold, loathing and ultimately resentful delusion that convinces those who believe it that all moments of joyful and loving connection are worthless -- when they are, in actuality, the very best things that we have and do.

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Satire Supremacy

June 29, 2022August 17, 2022 Tom OsborneLeave a comment

What Verheoven shows, at bottom, is that fascism turns living, feeling individuals into non-persons; people who live only for the destruction of something else.

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In Front of Your Nose

April 10, 2022August 17, 2022 Tom OsborneLeave a comment

McCarthy unashamedly demonstrates that good journalism is as painfully intimate as critical self-reflection -- containing all the same frustrations, inadequacies and inhibitions.

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Overlooked

January 23, 2022August 17, 2022 Tom OsborneLeave a comment

Considering that butchering sequels has become standard in Hollywood today, the fact that The Shinning was followed by a film like this is close to miraculous.

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Camelot Reimangined

October 4, 2021October 4, 2021 Tom OsborneLeave a comment

David Lowery's "The Green Knight" is a subversive fantasy-epic that uses powerful themes and engrossing performances to deliver an outlandishly good film.

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Four Angry Men

March 15, 2021October 4, 2021 Tom OsborneLeave a comment

Regina King's "One Night in Miami" is a stunning exploraton of four exceptional African-American men and the many ways in which their lives challenged American racism.

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Therapy in the Hood

February 17, 2021February 21, 2022 Tom OsborneLeave a comment

Marielle Heller's "A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood" is a heartwarming biopic that uses clever writing and strong characterisation to transcend the typical staleness of the genre.

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