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Film: “Don’t Look Up”

By filmfestsalonDecember 15, 2021Film Review BlogAdam McKay, Ariana Grande, Elon Musk, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Kid Cudi, Lars von Trier, Leonardo Di Caprio, Mark Rylance, Melanie Lynskey, Nicholas Stoller, Peter Thiel, Stanley Kubrick, Tyler Perry

Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” is sometimes kinda fun, sometimes awful, but it leaves you in a good enough frame of mind to accept its somewhat benign and warm view of human nature. And I respect it for making that pov extremely difficult for the audience to accept, especially after what they’ve seen. At the […]

Film: “Aniara”

Aniara, an ambitious science fiction film from Sweden, takes enormous risks by imagining the end of the world – in fact of human civilization – from a realistic perspective. Written and directed by Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lilja, it was inspired by an epic poem by Nobel Laureate Harry Martinson, which was later turned into an […]