Rumours – Dir. Guy Maddin & Galen and Evan Johnson
On Letterboxd, Film For Thought gave the satirical comedy Rumours four stars – not because it was a perfect movie but because we literally did not stop laughing for the whole two hour run time. The premise of the film centres around seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies at the annual G7 summit after they become lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis
It’s the craziest, funniest parody you’ll see – don’t expect greatness just expect the zaniest of zany.
Horizon: An American Saga – Dir. Kevin Costner
It’s a regular occurrence to see Film For Thought scorn Marvel movies for IP driven franchises for their focus on longevity, but I never thought I’d say this about a drama. When you watch Horizon: An American Saga, you consistently have the niggling feeling that you are simply watching a 3 hour trailer for the next film. Drama’s are not as lucrative as other genres and that is hardly a massive surprise, therefore it is extremely rare to get a drama that will have a sequel. Kevin Costner doesn’t care,
The Apprentice – Dir. Ali Abbassi
‘If you’re indicted, you’re invited,’ is one of many of Roy Cohn’s immoral mantras that he pontificates in front of a young and impressionable Donald Trump. Cohn is the cold, deadpan high-powered lawyer, played by Jeremy Strong. Meanwhile a young Trump is ironically the apprentice, as Cohn educates him in the first principles of cut-throat commerce, politics, and even romance, in which they always come out as ‘winners.’
Sebastian Stan goes through a transformation during the course of this movie, but very subtly and gradually as he literally takes on the Trump alter ego. There’s an interesting scene where he gets liposuction and removes his bald patch, and on the operating chair it’s like a Frankenstein moment where he transforms into the silhouette and caricature we could all pick out of a lineup. But we’ve already been through the origin story by this point, so we can see how he came to be. And that’s the beauty of this film.
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