Favourites are four of my top first time watches from the previous month.
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The Well 1951
The acting is sometimes distractingly iffy, but it is kind of fascinating in its approach to race, primarily in depicting a happily integrated school three years before Brown vs. Board of education was decided. Still, it's not all good news when it comes to unexpected progressiveness - there's an unfortunate 'both-sidesing' to the brewing race riots that pretty much presents a wrongly accused white man (tiny baby Colonel Potter!) as just as much a victim of racist hatred as the…
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Mae West: Dirty Blonde 2020
Shoddy from a fact-checking perspective, both repeating unquestioned Mae West’s amusingly brazen lie that she ‘discovered’ Cary Grant (just check IMDb!!!), and stating that the wrong play got her jail time (check Wikipedia!!!).
But as a kind of vibes-based overview, it’s quite enjoyable!
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Roll Red Roll 2018
If you’re looking to get angry - and I mean blood-boilingly, ear-steamingly furious - then I’ve got just the documentary for you...
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Change of Habit 1969
I mean, what can you say about a film where Dr. Elvis hugs a girl for hours to cure her of autism? And it works!
Just, wow...
