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Josh MatthewsMay 19, 2023
I get this question now about once a week, usually from younger men. I suspect that they realize their education, in schools or wherever, could've and should've been better. Thankfully, they realize the Internet allows for a good deal of self-education. If you are asking…
Josh MatthewsDecember 13, 2021
The Devil All the Time 2020 ★★½ Watched Sep 16, 2020 Has the joke been made yet that this title is Netflix's official slogan? The movie doesn't have anything to do with the devil, except that it's set in Bible-Belt Appalachia from 1948 to 1965. An ex-soldier returns home but can't…
Josh MatthewsJanuary 6, 2021
The Plumber 1979 ★★★½ Watched Sep 12, 2020 Jill and Brian Cowper live in university housing, both intellectuals who love cultural diversity and global culture. They love it so much that there's a "cultural diversity" poster on their bathroom door, and Jill seems to enjoy listening to native chants in…
Josh MatthewsJanuary 6, 2021
Platoon 1986 ★★★★½ Watched Sep 11, 2020 "Platoon" works best considered as a cinematic memoir about director Oliver Stone's service time in the American Vietnam War. It's misidentified as an anti-war movie, and, unlike most other Stone fare, it's not especially about abstract politics or some vast sweep of history.…
Josh MatthewsJanuary 6, 2021
Sunday Too Far Away 1975 ★★★ Watched Sep 10, 2020 (WARNING: the IMDB.com summary of this movie is a sick travestry. It only describes the last 5 minutes of the movie! Avoid at all costs.) This movie's advertised as one of the finest and earliest gems of the 1970s Australian New…
Josh MatthewsJanuary 6, 2021
Dawn of the Dead 1978 ★★★½ Watched Sep 09, 2020 I knew going in that this movie was partly a critique of American consumerism, by featuring a shopping mall. I had not known, though, the the critique was not just the zombies who instinctly return to the mall, but the…
Josh MatthewsJanuary 6, 2021
This Is Not a Film 2011 ★★★½ Watched Sep 06, 2020 Self-portraits populate art history; most painters make them. But why don't filmmakers create self-portraits? Maybe Jafar Panahi wouldn't, and even didn't want to, but here he's desperate. Under house arrest and awaiting a verdict, after being arrested for his recent…
Josh MatthewsJanuary 6, 2021
I’m Thinking of Ending Things 2020 ★★★★ Watched Sep 04, 2020 At its core, at least upon first viewing, this movie is about the bleakness of aging, whether growing old oneself or a relationship that aging. That is the ambiguity of the title: "Ending things" could be about wanting life…
Josh MatthewsJanuary 6, 2021
