Cinema Paradiso
Watching it, again, it's been a long time.
This is an excellent movie. Even so, the version I watched, corrupted and edited (read "Dumbed Down") for the North American audience - deserves a lot better than the reviews it's gotten. And I was disappointed in the ending - the original ending I had seen - well, it was different, but I'll leave no spoilers. If you've never seen it make it a holiday staple.
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The Irishman
Good. The digital effects, a bit off, watching Robert DeNiro taken back to a younger version of himself - not - just not right. Otherwise a good history of the US from the 50's forward, strung on the story told by Charles Brandt - the classic unreliable narrator who people will believe if only because his point of view became a movie (I'd suggest reading a little criticism of it...the movie is better than the source material, and that doesn't necessarily make it true...).
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Mandy
This was more than a little bit disturbing. A peculiar film, with some surreal and humorous moments, not critique-able with normal film standards, more a vehicle for the insanity of Nicholas Cage. Worthwhile, after the fashion of an entertaining nightmare, I'd give it a review of "Nicholas Cage turns it up to 11", and that about sums it up.
I should note that while I found it disturbing, for many people it's just another day in Middle America, and therein lies the horror...
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Clinton Killed Epstein
Now at the beginning it was looking a little suspicious...Jeffrey Epstein, notorious child sex trafficker, attempts suicide. He denies it and blames killer cellmate cop. Cop claims he "saved him". Later on, through a series of circumstances that beggar the mind and presume an incompetence beyond even what law enforcement is generally capable of, Epstein attempts to kill himself "again" and succeeds.
Now the catalog of errors here is beyond unbelievable, and I'm not conspiracy-minded, but there comes a time when it seems pretty obvious that you are either to accept a dozen far out explanations that lead to Epstein killing himself in inexplicable circumstance, or - simply - that he was killed and it was very poorly covered up and not at all investigated.
I'm thinking Clinton killed Epstein, and maybe Prince Andrew did too. But he sure as hell didn't do it himself.
Read the Wiki here and make up your own mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jeffrey_Epstein
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