Earth Protectors (de Carbuccia, 2023)
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by kenmorefield
1w ago
There is a scene in Season 3 of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom where Will (Jeff Daniels) interviews an Environmental Protection Agency official about climate change. The news anchor repeatedly tries to pivot from the alarming facts of the story to a glimmer of hope or even a last-minute call for drastic measures, but his guest repeatedly rebuffs the attempts, insisting that the situation is now hopeless. He compares the human population of the earth to a human, in a locked garage and a running car, already unconscious from the carbon monoxide but not yet dead. Absent some external intervention ..read more
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Books & Drinks (Cowper, 2024)
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by kenmorefield
1M ago
I can tell you the exact moment the movie lost me. David, our hero, has traveled to the Dominican Republic to sell his deceased father’s “mansion” after receiving the sort of inheritance that used to only happen in Dickens novels. While there he falls in love with the local culture in general and his pretty young real-estate agent, Maria, in particular. The mix of Orientalism (exotic otherness of the indigenous people) and colonialism (an average guy with a failing bookstore in America becomes Prince Charming in a third-world paradise), is uncomfortable to begin with. He’s got a girlfriend/fia ..read more
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Sense and Sensibility (2024)
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by kenmorefield
1M ago
I haven’t seen a Hallmark film in years, and I find myself largely indifferent to the charms of Bridgerton, the most prominent example of mixed-race casting I can think of that is popular at the current moment. So it would be fair to say that my expectations while approaching Hallmark’s “Mahogany Presentation” of Sense and Sensibility were…low. The hallmark of a gentleman in Austenland is the ability to admit when he is wrong, and, well, I was wrong. The new production stays faithful to the plot of Austen’s beloved novel while highlighting themes that are embedded in it. Jane Austen is too oft ..read more
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The Road Dance (Adams, 2021)
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by kenmorefield
1M ago
It is hard for me to fault The Road Dance for being about what it is about, but … I have seen so many stories over the yers about women being assaulted, women being beaten, women being raped, I live in an age on numb indifference, and that’s a place I don’t want to be. Is that the movie’s fault? The majority of reviews I have seen praise Hermione Corfield for her sensitive performance as Kirsty Macleod, and I agree. Kirsty is young and in love and loved in return by Murdo (Will Fletcher). But Murdo is called to go to war, and war parts young lovers, sometimes for a season, sometimes for longer ..read more
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The Teachers’ Lounge (Çatak, 2023)
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by kenmorefield
1M ago
The Teachers’ Lounge is a nasty little mousetrap of a movie. It is one of those films where circumstances spiral from bad to worse while basically well-intentioned people get more and more entangled in the slippery slope of unintended consequences to seemingly innocent decisions. The two films it most reminds me of are Lars von Trier’s Dogville and Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation. One of those two, I loved. The other I hated. So, what’s the difference, and which one did The Teachers’ Lounge most resemble? All three films present nightmarish, at-times Kafkaesque, scenarios. The main difference, f ..read more
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God & Country (Partland, 2024)
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by kenmorefield
1M ago
For nigh on ten years now, I have been telling all of my friends, most of my acquaintances, and anyone else who would listen: “This isn’t Christianity. This is not what I believe. This is not what most Christians I know and interact with believe.” So why am I not more enthused about a film that finally echoes that sentiment? That shouts it at the top of its lungs so that everyone can hear? I wish I knew. I suspect part of the answer is that while God & Country is relentless and emphatic in answering the question “Is Christian Nationalism actually Christian?” (spoiler alert: no), it is less ..read more
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Interpreters Wanted (Ham, 2024)
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by kenmorefield
1M ago
Interpreters Wanted puts a human face on a political issue so seemingly one-sided that it is hard not to fault the film for refusing to be angrier and failing to clarify which individuals or groups bear the brunt of responsibility for it. When the United States withdrew forces from Afghanistan, many Afghani interpreters who had worked for the U.S. military were left behind despite being promised visas for their work. Robert Ham’s documentary tells the story of two of them, Saifullah and Ismail, and Ham’s attempts to get the American government to honor its promises to them and those like them ..read more
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African Giants (Kamara, 2024)
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by Katherine Sizemore
2M ago
Fantastic. I truly enjoyed African Giants and would recommend it to anyone with at least one sibling or anyone who might come from a place where a different emphasis is placed on familial ties and relationships. By emphasis, I mean that the family members and their ideals take precedence over any of those outside the family, and single gains are familial gains in terms of money or wealth. Touching on cultural divides within the African and Black American population from an older generation’s standpoint, and covering generational changes within a culture in the sense of romantic relationships a ..read more
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2023 Top 10
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by kenmorefield
3M ago
There was a lot of misery at the movies this year. Some of it was onscreen. A writer’s strike and actor’s strike didn’t exactly keep us devoid of new content, but they did seem to extend the desert between last year’s award season and the next. Causes for political, social, and environmental anxieties were probably no greater than they have ever been, but they might have seemed more prevalent when we didn’t have the escape of entertainment to distract us. Since mine is a list of personal favorites rather than one of artistic judgments, I’ve largely avoided pronouncements from year to year abou ..read more
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Lead and Copper (Hart, 2023)
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by kenmorefield
3M ago
William Hart shows up with enough receipts in Lead and Copper to dismay even the most hardened pessimists and persuade … who exactly? That’s not meant as an indictment of Hart or the film. It just feels to me that for the last decade or perhaps a little longer, Western audiences have been told by journalists and documentarians that our problems are not just dire, they are unsolvable. Consequently, a resignation has seemingly settled on American culture. An Inconvenient Truth and the films of Michael Moore (especially Sicko and Bowling for Columbine) may not have been tipping points, but they n ..read more
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