UW-Madison PhD candidate, and chief film critic at AlternateEnding.com
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Fish Fry 1944
My first Andy Panda cartoon, and he's just as much of a harmless yawn as I've been led to believe - not that one is led to believe much of anything about Andy Panda beyond "there existed a third major Walter Lantz character, besides Woody Woodpecker and Chilly Willy". This does have some pretty excellent animation of the reaction shots of the vicious, hungry cat attempting to eat Andy's brand-new pet fish; big fully-body rubber-band attacks, with some wild stuff…
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Booby Hatched 1944
An overstuffed mini-epic that would benefit from at least a bit more added to its brief running time, so it could actually have a conclusion; it's also kind of light on actual jokes after the initial run of "mama duck lights her butt on fire to warm up her eggs" gags (though there's one with a bear indignantly breaking the fourth wall to tell us to go fuck ourselves that's as funny as anything else in Tashlin's cartoon filmography). What…
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Judas and the Black Messiah 2021
In retrospect, of course Warner Bros. wasn't going to put out a movie that genuinely grappled with Fred Hampton's revolutionary politics, and it's on me that I was idiot enough to wonder if they might. Instead, despite a couple quotes from Marxist literature, and one appearance each by the words "socialism" (at the start) and "proletariat" (at the end; also, I might have missed a "proletariat" in there, I wasn't really thinking to count it), this mostly turns Hampton into…
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Tell It Like a Woman 2022
I think it's extremely broad-minded of the Academy to start giving Oscar nominations to films that do not, in fact, exist.