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The Hungry Ear

Kevin Young

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Food and poetry: in so many ways, a natural pairing, from prayers over bread to street vendor songs....

Awix (3310 KP) rated Behind the Curve (2018) in Movies

Feb 24, 2019 (Updated Feb 24, 2019)

Behind the Curve (2018)

2018 | Documentary

8.0

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Engaging and humane look at what has always been a byword for fruitcake pseudoscience, and more specifically the people who promote these theories. Quite sensibly the film doesn't bother trying to explain to Flat Earth adherents why their beliefs are incorrect, but examines their culture from a not-unsympathetic sociological and psychological point of view; as a result the Flat Earthers are elegantly given more than enough rope to debunk themselves.

Still, with some of the personalities involved, the film can't help but be entertaining, and it does make some important points about the dangerous results of excluding and isolating people, and the importance of education rather than mockery. Has already been denounced as a hatchet job by people in the Flat Earth community, but then you could probably have guessed that. Highly entertaining and thought-provoking; possibly worth watching just for the scenes showing the reactions of Flat Earthers when their painstaking experiments to prove the world has no curvature predictably give the opposite result. You can't win 'em all, guys.

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Lou Grande (148 KP) rated SuperFly (2018) in Movies

Jun 27, 2018

SuperFly (2018)

2018 | Action, Crime, Thriller

6.2

(6 Ratings)

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Stick to the original

Something just didn't translate here. From the '70s to the current time, culture has changed, and so has drug habits. I was sitting in the theater wondering what city in the States has a cocaine flow like that, but I suppose that's neither here nor there.

The plot is basically the same: drug heists, setups, betrayals. It just sort of fell flat. Priest ended up looking more like a hipster that hangs around Starbucks, not Superfly. His hairstyle (a rather pronounced side-parted quiff) ended up looking silly. And speaking of silly, the sex scene was slightly comedic. It felt shoe-horned in. It doesn't quite flow in the context of the film. And one of the actresses obviously didn't get paid enough to go topless, so they used trick angles to cover her breasts. Normally I wouldn't complain (you do you), but it doesn't fit with the genre of film.

I don't know. Everything fell flat to me. It didn't even have anything to laugh at.