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Mini Movie Reviews, 3

Movies that received at least one Golden Globe nomination

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4 months ago

January 15, 2023

Jeff Davidson

Here are more movies from those that received at least one Golden Globe nomination:

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — with Daniel Craig, rapper/rockstar Janelle Monáe, Edward Norton, and Dave Bautista, has a plot that’s a little too involved, but does hold ones attention. Daniel Craig, as the super sleuth, is quite entertaining, and Janelle Monáe offers a personal best. Some of the other character portrayals don’t quite cut it, such as Kate Hudson’s, and the ending leaves us a bit short, but the movie is fun and watchable for the duration.

Blonde — staring Ana de Armas, in a completely different role than Knives Out or No Time to Die, presents a sympathetic and searing portrait of Marilyn Monroe, unlike anything I’ve seen. While the movie is a bit flaky at times and has rough spots here and there, Ana’s performance is Oscar-worthy and merits watching the whole time. Spoiler alert: with overly woke producer, Brad Pitt, it’s no surprise that regarding Marilyn’s death, involvement of the Kennedys is totally ignored and that the viewer is led down an erroneous rabbit hole.

The Triangle of Sadness — this is the third movie I’ve seen in recent weeks where a select group boards a boat or cruise. Who knew that sailing was going to be so popular this season? The movie has some notable moments of pathos as well as humor. At about midpoint, it starts becoming silly. Skip this.

White Noise — starring an unrecognizable Adam Driver, offers a noticeably wasteful first 20 minutes. Then, even when the story gets rolling, there’s not enough here to make it compelling. None of the characters are interesting: There’s no one with whom to identify and the story is quickly forgettable.

Babylon — starring Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, and rising newcomer Diego Calva suffers from trying to be too much, in too many directions, to too many people. Movies about actors, movies themselves, or Hollywood in general need a strong lead and singular focus, or be downright entertaining. Think: All about Eve, or Sunset Boulevard from the ’50s, or more recently, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Babylon is entertaining in stretches but it is noticeably shaky much of the way. The ultra-talented Margot Robbie, who is the focus for most of the film, starts off spectacularly, and then goes way over the top, into ‘not credible’ territory. Still, if you are an avid moviegoer, and can slink away for three hours, it’s worth watching.

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Mainstream Media: Intentionally and Diabolically Unfair and Unbalanced

All pretense that the mainstream media strives for objectivity is gone

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3 days ago

May 25, 2023

Jeff Davidson

by Jay DeLancey and Jeff Davidson

The grandest mistake the American populace committed in the last half-century was assuming that our media was even somewhat fair and balanced. Likewise proceeding in the last two decades as if the Internet giants had no dog in the political arena proved to be a mistake of historical proportions.

Today because so many people, still, are conditioned as such, the mere fact that say, a CNN, has a website prompts some people to believe that the network have something of value to offer. Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, whose focus is classics and military history, says that the New York Times is “a shell of what it used to be.”

Nothing Objective to Offer

The paper always leaned to the left, since it’s founding, but it did an intermittently semi-decent job in reporting the facts. The Times sent their reporters out to the streets to do hard-core reporting. The mission was to gather relevant data, identify sources, talk to people, find eye witnesses, speak to bonafide experts, attain corroboration, and then when they were sure of what they had written, submit the story or feature.

Their articles probably never represented a 50-50 balance – perhaps 55-45 or 60-40 in favor of the left. Today, no rational media observer would contend that the balance is 70-30, or even 80-20. Study after study reveals, say, in the case of covering Donald Trump, that 92% of all features are negative, and that is not to say the remaining 8% are positive. Mostly, they’re neutral.

If you are a Trump or DeSantis supporter, or a Republican running for Senate or the House of Representatives, for governor in your state, or for any other position of prominence, you simply cannot expect a fair shake from the press, nationally, and in most cases locally. Indeed, you’re likely to be demonized, endlessly, over issues for which Democrats receive a free pass.

Compromised to the Breaking Point

The New York Times and The Washington Post of old, as biased as they might’ve been, at least offered some semblance of up-to-date information, with facts and figures when they had them, and timely reporting as situations unfolded. Hansen remarked that today the people who run these newspapers are trading on the decades of hard work and the reputations built up over more than 100 years.

Those who put in the seed work are dead and gone and thus, obviously, have no say about what’s going on today. The Times and the Post, in less than a generation, are destroying their own reputations. The people who currently run these ‘news’ organizations are dragging them down at warp speed and don’t even recognize the damage that they are doing.

By 2030, what is now a shell of an organization will be less so, and it wouldn’t be too wild to predict that the Times could totally morph into something else. The Post is not far behind in devising its own demise.

The Pretense is Gone

Each of the countless newspapers that feed off of these two publishing giants suffer as well. All such pretense that the mainstream media strives for objectivity is gone. The good news, if you could call it that, is everyone on the right is now vitally all aware that this has happened.

Those who strive for integrity in elections, those who are on the right, and those who are routinely demonized by the left, understand what’s occurring to the nth degree. It’s not fair, but to know what you face is a benefit of sorts.

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