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Get Out

Saw this with the daughter, it was brilliant and perfectly captured the experience of being black in America. Not that I'm in a position to know, but the general tone - the references to "I Voted for Obama" and "Tiger Woods was the best Golfer" - the pure vanilla of the girlfriends family, the scene where he's forced to watch the "happy white american family" on the TV - it works on a lot of levels. The twist, well, it's good, but hardly necessary, all the horrors of cultural appropriation and assimilation are there well beforehand...

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Category: Film
Created: 27 February 2017
  • America,
  • Black,

Brimstone and Treacle

An oldie but a goodie, Uncomfortable, visceral, for a time banned, easy enough to imagine the Nephew in the role of Sting, it shows just how valuable a competent writer is to a script. Which is not to suggest you'll like it, most probably you won't, it deals with any number of uncomfortable issues, but some would argue that's the point...

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Category: Film
Created: 21 February 2017
  • Sting,

John Wick 2

Which I saw with the daughter, laughed out loud, better even than the first, tongue in cheek, doesn't take itself too seriously, but excellent for what it is and the ending promises even more great things to come...

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Category: Film
Created: 15 February 2017

Withnail and I

Watched this again for the first time in quite a few years. As brilliant and darkly comedic as ever. 5 Stars.

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Category: Film
Created: 05 February 2017
  1. The Candidate
  2. V is for Vendetta
  3. Office Christmas Party
  4. Arrival

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