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Sinners - Ryan Coogler - 2025
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Now - this one punched well above what I thought it would, and I wished I'd watched it in theatres or at least on a big screen TV and LOUD.
It was a recommendation by a fellow cinephile neighbour - and I had a few recommendations for him as well, but before I asked about them I thought it polite to watch his recommendations.
This was excellent. And before I go on, there will be a few spoilers. So - read more only if you've seen it...
Canvas Prints
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Another rant for the morning, that in almost all the "galleries" and restaurants displaying art there's been a new trend. Photographers printing their pictures on Canvas, (what was wrong with a photo?) and digital and physical artists making stretched "canvas" prints and selling them for hundreds of dollars.
Hardly anyone anymore is touching brush to paper or canvas.
Now - to rebel against these trends, these digitally printed canvases, they're worth nothing, about as much as Robert Bateman's "limited edition 1, 000, 000 prints, all signed by the author, for the WWF..."
These will never be worth the paper their printed on, and he's famous. And they have a "Limited Run"; even if it is a million copies, these other printed canvases, well, the author just goes back and prints as many as he sells you own nothing unique or of any value whatsoever.
If you were knowledgeable about art, and mindful of costs you could buy a limited edition print by Matisse or Dali; genuinely limited, and if you had an eye you could buy an original piece - one off; for the same price.
Anyways, there's no arguing the times, and these printed canvases are everywhere and will keep their value like a "Bored Ape" or NFT.
Godly Pizza
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And, being somewhat of a trash panda from time to time I'm in one of the local pizza places, named after a Norse God. And I notice the wall, and on the wall there are written all the different types of pizza they make, and I can see a "Poseidon" and "Neptune" and the thing is why did he need to switch mythologies, and why do the oceanic gods have no seafood on their pizza? I'm seeing bacon, sausage, pepperoni, etc, etc, but no shrimp or clams or fish and I'm half inclined to give him a bit of a classical education but - well; that would be a dick-move beyond even me.
Still, an annoying trifle...
Eden - Ron Howard, 2024
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And this as well was very good, the apparently true (ish) tale of an Author who abandoned his life in prewar Germany to go and write a manifesto in the Galapagos Islands...
Things take a turn when his letters home incite others dissatisfied in Germany to come to the island and his peace of mind is destroyed...
Good.
You can read the Wiki on it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_(2024_film)
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