Jon Favreau's CIA funexplained as liberal-historyMAKING

”I don’t really know about that? I’m pretty sure I can’t weigh on it one way or another; I mean, it does seem like he has a RIGHTto do that thing that way; and: who am I to intervene on it.”xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Mallermé's INJust Translational Faux-pas

NOBODY! on this earth has EVER UNDERSTOOD what the fuck MallARM! had written; least of all ALlAMEBadiou.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Don't Worry Darling: Towards Dysjunctive Gender Subterfuge

An absolutely impeccable film from start to finish. Aesthetically, artfully, meaningfully. And yet it draws a line where it shouldn't and refuses to look where it should.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Starship Troopers: Responsbility of the Citizen

Although generally understood to be a satire, a proper understanding of this film today should attempt to recover the historical context from which it arose and to which it ultimately owes its true meaning. Whether the director believes in it or not.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Don't Look Up: Bring On The Comet

Politics masquerading as film. The spectacle and affective allure of cinema redefines the traditional (liberal) political operation of art: from coincidental serendipity to hysterical mass-mobilization. It highlights concerns with the current state of climate politics based on the COVID19 model.xxxx

Another Round: Overcoming the Liberal Double-Bind

Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's most recent film asks us to take seriously the pervasive consumption of alcohol and to see within it the potential for transcendent societal liberation and new forms of communal engagement.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx