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1961

★★★½ Watched 07 Jun 2025

The short with which the Friz Freleng unit followed the new standard set by the Chuck Jones unit, crediting the layout designer as co-director; and as far as that goes, Hawley Pratt's characteristically good layouts are primarily responsible for selling this short's best gag, an extended sequence with Sylvester rolling down a flight of stairs in a barrel. It's also the first short written by the studio's new hire, John W. Dunn, who is immediately a more promising figure than…

2020

★★★½ Watched 07 Jun 2025

I feel like this probably makes more sense on paper than it does in the actual execution. It's a forensic documentary uncovering the story of the six Chinese engers on RMS Titanic who survived the disaster that shifts gently into the stories of those men's post-sinking lives and what that tells us about the struggle of Asian immigrants in the United States, then and now, which feels pretty natural. But in the actual movie, it kind of hops between the…

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2021

★★★ 14

In retrospect, of course Warner Bros. wasn't going to put out a movie that genuinely grappled with Fred Hampton's revolutionary politics, and it's on me that I was idiot enough to wonder if they might. Instead, despite a couple quotes from Marxist literature, and one appearance each by the words "socialism" (at the start) and "proletariat" (at the end; also, I might have missed a "proletariat" in there, I wasn't really thinking to count it), this mostly turns Hampton into…

2022

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I think it's extremely broad-minded of the Academy to start giving Oscar nominations to films that do not, in fact, exist.

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