Greg Johnson hosted a relaxed Ask Me Anything on the New Year’s Eve-eve broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio. Endeavour (Substack, Telegram, YouTube), Jim Goad, James Karlsson, Gaddius Maximus, Cyan Quinn, Karl Thorburn (Telegram), and David Zsutty all dropped by for the occasion, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
Tag: movie reviews
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During the summer of 1945, when Germany’s cities were piles of smoldering rubble and the German people lived like rats in their cellars, the German Jews who had run away during the 1930s swarmed back into Germany lusting for revenge. Plan A is not only based on “a true story,” “this film from Israeli brothers Doron and Yoav Paz dramatizes an astonishing piece of Holocaust history: a deadly plot by a small group of Jewish survivors to poison the water supply in Nuremberg. ‘An eye for an eye. Six millions for six millions.’” (more…)
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Before black Little Mermaid, there was The Wiz.
The Wiz was an infamous 1978 remake of The Wizard of Oz featuring an all-black cast which included Diana Ross, a teenaged Michael Jackson, and Richard Pryor as The Wiz himself. The movie was based on an outrageously successful 1974 Broadway musical that was the Hamilton of the 1970s. (more…)
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Note: There will be mega-spoilers in this article. A lot of the critical messaging of Leave the World Behind comes at the end, and requires me to give away the ending.
I first heard about Leave the World Behind on Twitter/X. The tweet informed me that it was a new Netflix movie made by Barak Obama’s production company, High Ground Productions; had something to do with the end of the world, when technology stops working; and had some anti-white overtones about white people not being trustable. I decided to watch based on that tweet. (more…)
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December 11, 2023 Travis LeBlanc
Ich Klage an
Pro-Genocide Nazi Propaganda or Humanitarian Masterpiece?
Part 2Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
A trial is held and several witness are called. Hanna inherited a substantial sum when her father died, and Hanna’s brother Edward — who never liked Thomas and thought he himself should have received the money — accuses Thomas of killing his wife in order to get her inheritance. (more…)
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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)
While researching my essay on Die große Liebe, I learned of the infamous pro-euthanasia Nazi film Ich Klage an. I’m glad I did. Oftentimes I watch these old cinematic artifacts for solely academic purposes, but with Ich Klage an, I found myself actually being engrossed in the story.
Ich Klage an, or I Accuse, is a propaganda film about a doctor whose wife becomes ill with multiple sclerosis, a rapidly progressive disease which destroys the nerves and reduces people to paralyzed vegetables. (more…)
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Jesus Revolution (2023)
Directed by Jon Erwin & Brent McCorkle
Starring Kelsey Grammer, Joel Courtney, Jonathan Roumie, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, & Anna Grace Barlow
Written by Ellen Vaughn, Greg Laurie, & Jon GunnThe story in the Book of Acts is unique in that the events described therein have been recreated across many ages, in states that were unborn and accents unknown at the time it was written. (more…)
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Liz Collin
They’re Lying: The Media, The Left, and The Death of George Floyd
Paper Birch Publishing, 2022The Fall of Minneapolis (2023)
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In light of the recent Dublin riots, I thought I would write something Irish-themed and settled on Troy Duffy’s The Boondock Saints, a cult Tarantino knockoff movie from 1999 with Irish-Catholic themes. In the process of researching this I discovered the documentary Overnight about the making of the film — which is actually a far more interesting movie in itself. You can watch it here.
The history of Hollywood is that of a power struggle between producers and directors. (more…)
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I ain’t going back
To living that old life no more.
— Old Crow Medicine Show, “Wagon Wheel”The street is watching. She is watching. — Carlito’s Way
2023 has been quite a year for the anniversaries of some of my favorite films and, in these trying times, old movies are a solace. Watch a loved film one more time and you know in advance you are going to like it. It’s a cinematic comfort-blanket. (more…)
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Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is a bad movie, but not a terrible one. There are legions of nerds complaining about how Scott got this or that historical detail wrong. Honestly, that’s beside the point. Even if Scott didn’t know Saint Helena from Elba, he could still have made a great movie.
Everyone has heard of Napoleon. But what’s so great about Napoleon? Any film about Napoleon needs to answer that question. But in nearly three hours’ screen time, Scott fails to do so. (more…)
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Martin Scorsese, who turns 81 today, is a master of the gangster movie: Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Departed, The Irishman, and now Killers of the Flower Moon. Killers is the true story of a series of murders that took place in the 1920s on the Osage Indian Reservation in Oklahoma.
When oil was discovered under their reservation, the Osage nation became, in effect, the first oil sheikdom. The Osage cashed in their oil revenues for fancy houses, cars, clothes, and bling. Alcoholism, obesity, and diabetes ran rampant. (more…)
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When I found out that there was a 1975 Nazi-themed blaxploitation — or perhaps a black-themed Nazisploitation — movie called The Black Gestapo about a militant black organization that patterns itself after the SS, I knew I was going to watch it. You can’t make a movie called The Black Gestapo and expect me not to watch it. I’m glad I did, because it is a funny little time capsule piece that ties together various strains of 1970s pop culture fascinations. For one, it mixes elements of multiple genres of exploitation films. (more…)