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Chaos: The Manson Murders 2025
Over half a century later, what new information can be gleaned from the nights of August 9 and 10, 1969? Tom O’Neill and Dan Piepenbring’s riveting (if convoluted) book CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties––released in June 2019, between the Cannes premiere and theatrical release of Quentin Tarantino’s cathartic rewrite of that history––argues that while all the evidence of the murders has been gleaned, there’s a complex and knotty web of conspiracies for the…
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Black Bag 2025
If a James Bond or Mission: Impossible film excised all its action scenes––save a stray explosion or gunshot––while employing a script with a pop John le Carré sensibility, it might resemble something like Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag. A hyper-slick, suave spy thriller, it’s mainly relegated to dinner tables and office rooms as stages for rapid-fire, gleefully barbed verbal sparring scripted by David Koepp, returning to the genre after Ethan Hunt’s first outing. Primarily focusing on a trio of couples working…
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West Side Story 2021
Only Steven Spielberg could make a shot of someone standing in a puddle one of the most beautiful images of the year.
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The Red Turtle 2016
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
First 78 minutes of The Red Turtle: this is a very nice movie
Last 2 minutes: I am emotionally wrecked and have a new perspective on lifeTranslated from by