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The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)
Easily Anderson's worst film to date
Ignore the fake 10/10 reviews by paid hacks. This film, if you actually watch it, especially if you're a Wes Anderson fan, will showcase just how far off the quality street he has fallen off. Visually, it's remarkably dull, using monochrome in the most lazy and unimaginative way, and taking away the distinctive colours of a Wes Anderson film. But visuals are not everything, and more importantly the plot suffers from an extreme amount of pretension, humour that misses the mark, and lack of character development or even screen time. It's a film full of misses, and the current 7.5 score just goes to prove that film reviews are mostly fake and PR driven, and in today's world, quality is immaterial when ratings can be bought. 2/10.
We Are Many (2014)
A very important film...
The 2003 invasion of Iraq is a war crime that remains unpunished by the so-called war crimes tribunal kangaroo courts which seem to only punish those the war criminals deem punishable. This powerful documentary reminds us all that the war crime occurred after the entire world stood up in protest at the Bush and Blair regimes plans to kill millions of Iraqis, destroy that country and give rise to new horrors in the following years. The fact that these war criminals and their associates walk free is testimony of why film's like this are important to remind us of their unpunished crimes against humanity.
The Conversation (1974)
A conversation with greatness
This is one of those films that grabs your attention from the masterful opening shots which give us a birds eye view and peep into the world of domestic, private espionage. The rest of the film delivers on the premise and does it with pure style and panache, assisted by the editing of the master, Walter Murch.
Tôkyô monogatari (1953)
Masterpiece
What more is to say than masterpiece, masterpiece, masterpiece because saying it once is not enough to summarise the power of this film and it's great master director.
The Call Centre (2020)
Lacks authenticity
I tried to enjoy this short but ultimately found it lacked something, from the acting to the pay off, it came across as forced and inauthentic. Not to my taste.
Unskin (2020)
Punchy
I saw this recently at the Apulia WebFest and rarely do I write reviews of shorts but this one grabbed me. The unique narrative style is refreshing and the visuals are cold, dark and punchy. It was in the top 5 best films at the festival, but was also the one that left its imprint on mind.