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The White Sheik (1952)
The White Sheik (1952)
1952 | Comedy, Drama
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"My favorite of all Fellini’s films, it seems his most perfect and certainly his most likable and affecting. And it’s his most comical, thanks to the wonderful performances of Leopoldo Trieste and, especially, Alberto Sordi, who went on to star in over three hundred films in Italy and is rightly regarded as their greatest actor. Its story also prefigures the theme of three of his later films (La dolce vita, Toby Dammit, and Ginger and Fred), as to the corrosive effect of the new media religion of celebrity. In 1950, the inroads of paganism on Christianity still seemed only foolish when a photo¬-comic-book character almost destroys a Catholic marriage. But already by 1959, the lust for media attention had become all consuming and malignant in La dolce vita, where a journalist goes from one idiotic media event to another, including an imagined miracle in the rain. In Toby Dammit, on a nightmarish TV talk show, the church itself parades in front of the TV cameras; and in Ginger and Fred, about another ridiculous TV celebrity program, it has all become totally absurd, only momentarily relieved by a nostalgia for older performers. Half a century later, the celebrity media religion rules, and there is no end to its reign in sight."

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Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
2018 | Crime, Thriller
So... I'm beginning to think that if I haven't heard of a film franchise then I probably shouldn't worry about catching up with the previous ones. We had an Unlimited screening of this one and I've left it off my listing because I walked out 15 minutes into the movie. This is nothing on the quality of the film. There are three reasons that contributed to me leaving: the start of the showing wasn't until 8.15pm, there were excessive trailers/ads, and I disliked the first one so much that in my mind I already hated the second.

I knew I'd give it another go, and this second time was much more successful. (It didn't hurt that the seats were much more comfortable than the ones in Bristol.)

I'm not sure that there's much to say about it though. I mainly gave it three stars because I enjoy some mindless violence in my movies and Benico Del Toro is able to perform it perfectly. In all honesty it should probably get two stars. I didn't feel like there was much of note in the storyline, and nothing really seems like it gets resolved as such. And the ending... I will not be watching a third.
  
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