The blogroll in my sidebar links to two blogs which specialise in films, and I have found both of them useful sources when looking for obscure films which pass under the radar but I nevertheless might like. \u00a0But being arsty-types, the\u00a0proprietors\u00a0aren’t half precious snowflakes.<\/p>\n
Firstly,\u00a0Mostly Film<\/a>:<\/p>\n IF, in this Year Of Our Lord 2016 you think…segment after segment after segment on the living, breathing bowl-of-dicks now a month away from owning the nuclear codes\u00a0aren\u2019t<\/i> topics for a late-night comedy show, then fuck you; you weren\u2019t going to like it anyway.<\/p>\n Besides, when I called out this show for praise last year, there wasn\u2019t a bona-fide narcopathic lunatic in the White House. When Last Week Tonight<\/i> returns in February, god knows there\u2019s going to be.<\/p>\n Satire pretty much never changes anything, sadly, and satire certainly didn\u2019t stop Donald Trump being elected President. But if America\u2019s shatteringly thin-skinned President-Elect\u00a0is on (lying) record as being shatteringly thin-skinned about one particular<\/i> piece of satire, then as far as I\u2019m concerned, that particular piece of satire needs to keep doing what it\u2019s been doing, only massively more so. Staying angry is the only response. That was this year\u2019s finale\u2019s message \u2013 don\u2019t put up with this. You don\u2019t have<\/i> to put up with this.<\/p>\n Because if there\u2019s one person in the world who doesn\u2019t remotely<\/i> care about deeply unsexy and boring institutional injustices that invisibly ruin the lives of the disadvantaged every single day, it\u2019s that<\/i> motherfucker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Bless. \u00a0But wait, there’s\u00a0more<\/a>:<\/p>\n It\u2019s a thoroughly satisfying film, although in a post-Trump world, it plays far more as an anger-inducing polemic than might otherwise have been the case. The tiny gains these women fought so hard for in terms of opportunity, respect and dignity, overthrown in a two-year campaign by a tiny-handed megalomaniac and his shit-for-brains supporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And more<\/a>:<\/p>\n Hello to you all from Europe\u2019s Best Website. Usually we take this slight breather to indulge in a bit of frivolity \u2013 a joke here, a quip there, a look at what we\u2019ve come up with, and a glance at the upcoming treats the world has in store for our eyes and our brains.<\/p>\n This week, however \u2013 who gives the tiniest fuck about all that? When the world youactually <\/i>live in takes a gigantic step towards a global fascist dystopia by handing the reins of power to the human equivalent of a massive bag of flaming dogshit, well, being snarky about upcoming movie trailers seems slightly beside the point. The caveat to that being if there was a film out there featuring a racist, woman-hating President-Elect being relentlessly bludgeoned\u00a0to death by a crack team of angry gorillas \u2013 we\u2019d definitely link to that. But there isn\u2019t, so we can\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Next is Film Babble Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n In the age of Trump (man, I hated typing that), a story about fighting racism is as timely as can be, but this film teaches a lesson that would be just as important for people to learn and appreciate even if our country had elected the more qualified candidate.<\/p>\n As the saying goes, \u201cthose who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.\u201d Right now, when it sure looks like we are doomed, it\u2019s more crucial than ever that we look back at the times that we as the people of this great, but greatly flawed country actually got something right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And again<\/a>:<\/p>\n A blast of a spectacular yet intimate feeling big-screen musical is exactly what we need right now as there\u2019s a strong sense that there\u2019s bleakness on the horizon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And again<\/a>:<\/p>\n This film also stirs up emotions about dealing with the difficult transition involving power changing hands next month. The Obama administration was as close to Kennedy\u2019s Camelot as I fear we\u2019re going get again in my lifetime. Such a movie as this is a must see in these scary times as it reminds us that America has gotten through dark times before and will again. This movie makes me want to believe that, despite the scariness of what\u2019s on the rapidly approaching horizon, Camelot lives!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There are few things more off-putting on a blog which adequately deals with a particular specialist subject when the authors start to shoehorn in their political views. It’s fair enough if it is a political blog, but when you go to a site\u00a0which advertises itself as being about films in order to read about films and you find crap like this…well, at least write something that doesn’t read like a transcript taken from a high-school debating class made up of particularly wet pupils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The blogroll in my sidebar links to two blogs which specialise in films, and I have found both of them useful sources when looking for obscure films which pass under the radar but I nevertheless might like. \u00a0But being arsty-types, … Continue reading