another maniacal Armond White review, this time "Fahrenheit 9/11"

hi there!

george o'brien was stunning. and he had a great, goofy smile.

http://www.bestmoviesbyfarr.com/static-assets/images/articles/background/2014/09/2-wkquzx.jpg

(and he grew into a great character actor, too, which i imagine those who knew his work in the 1920s would never have guessed he would.)

So, is name-checking Matthew Rush in his reviews Armond's new thing?

http://www.out.com/armond-white/2015/7/15/trainwrecks-homophobia-puts-john-cena-headlock

I'm on board.

Armond you crazy dick-sucker you.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425696/bridge-spies-review

Spielberg has lost the native all-American exuberance that made the atomic-bomb/refrigerator exploit in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull so wondrous. Here, he mocks “duck-and-cover” Cold War training films, the public-school Pledge of Allegiance, and even Donovan’s “Big American breakfast” as part of obsolete cultural foolishness that deserves noir cynicism. This is pop art at its most disingenuous.

And armond knows disingenuous

Funnier still is how Armond, who frequently decries Tarantino's sadism, delights in watching (coded) Occupy-ers being mutilated and eaten.

Missed that gem.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426663/movie-review-Brooklyn-Spotlight?target=author&tid=1152026

should I?

Spotlight’s crusading journalists and activists are played by a cast of actors you can no longer trust: Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, and Stanley Tucci carry disingenuousness in their make-up kits, each one dragging the shadows of so many earlier untenable movies.

(No wonder critics derided McCarthy’s Adam Sandler film, The Cobbler; its vision of multi-ethnic connection was as wondrous and unillusioned as Brooklyn.)

His criticisms of movies about crusading journalists - and the way movies turn victims into a faceless mass, unless one of them has a cute kid - are valid.

not really. name some.

Absence of Malice? and that crappy remake set in DC w/ Russell Crowe

forget the first one, Paul Newman is the oppressed victim in that

State of Play?

right

Armond on the 12 best gay flicks of 2015

I've seen Eastern Boys and Girlhood. Have Tangerine on hold at the library. Anyone care to endorse or warn me away from any of the others?

Love at First Fight is pretty good, but funny to see it on this list. Adele Hanael is very good in it, but I thought a big problem was that she wasn't allowed to be 'queer' enough. It became more gender-stereotypical as it went along for me.
The New Girlfriend is pretty good Ozon, much better than Young & Beautiful, but not the campy awesomeness of Potiche.
Tangerine is the best American film of the year.
Duke of Burgundy I like less than most people, apparently, but I don't think it's as weird as it should be, not as good as Berberian Sound Studio, and while I think Sidste Babett Knudsen's accent is meant to signify continental decadent coolness, it sounds too familiarly Danish to me. But that's my problem.

Appropriate Behavior is very funny. Gerontophilia mostly isn't. I don't remember anything gay about the Techine film, but it's a weak one.

Love at First Fight and Appropriate Behaviour both added to my watchlist. Thanks, guys!

Appropriate Behaviour will be on my list of the year's best.

do not spell britishly

i need to go to the brix & mortar store and rent Duke of Burgundy

anyway, Armond was on target recently about Creed and Carol.

this is his most decent list since whenever

I didn't care much for Duke of Burgundy: a movie with butterflies, cabinets, and scrub brushes should have put them to more creative use.

Anyone care to endorse or warn me away from any of the others?

― Bitch I'm in the 2112 (cryptosicko),

fully endorse The New Girlfriend – about time a gender comedy had a funny bone.

On the watchlist it goes! I was hesitant after Young and Beautiful did nothing for me, but your endorsement sounds promising.

Think you really do have to have some kind of sympathy or taste for Rollin, Franco etc to get the most out of Duke of Burgundy, but I found it to be a much funnier film than The New Girlfriend, which for me sat rather uneasily between being a comedy of manners and something a little darker (ie like Almodovar's superior The Skin I Live In).

you've been waiting...

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429435/movies-2015-best-and-worst

The Green Inferno and Knock Knock > Mad Max: Fury Road Eli Roth’s two-fer made him the year’s wittiest political filmmaker, reviving low-grade genres as social satire — the opposite of George Miller’s craven, violent, utterly mindless spectacular.

sure, guy

lol @ implying that eli roth is not craven or violent

What a tragedy it is that Armond has lost Spielberg.

also smdh at the idea of horror as a "lower-grade" genre than the action film

Ok, Armond (and Morbs, and Alfred) totally OTM re: Appropriate Behavior. Desiree Akhaven would be my pick for the Performance of the Year if I saw enough new movies for that to mean anything.

it had been so long since i saw a comedy where i was laughing once a minute, which is true for most of AB.

huh hadn't heard of it before, sounds promising

Armond gets a boner from Michael Bay's Benghazi flick

In 13 Hours, these living breathing G.I. Joes are more than just politically correct, they’re also anatomically correct dolls.

that might be my favorite Armond review yet

"government-issued sexiness"

if that ran on national review's site the response would be "interesting"

Zac Efron gives Armond a boner

The fun of sex is the entire point of the raunchy, goofy Dirty Grandpa. You have to be humorless (and sex-averse) to be offended by its deliberate naughtiness as so many critics have demonstrated. Director Dan Mazer and screenwriter John Phillips are in the long, if disreputable, tradition of porn meisters whose vulgarity opens the way for gay identification and solidarity. Dermot Mulroney, in a small role as Zac’s father, acknowledges fans of his sensual profile (that phallic proboscis) in a skit where he is tattooed with penis graffito. His punchline: “Let me get these cocks off my face.”

oh man, Dermot and Zac as dad/son, impure as it gets.

AW has p unimpeachable taste in film beefcake.

that phallic proboscis.

Channing Tatum's Gene Kelly act gives Armond a boner

I won't click on it yet but, yeah, that sequence was sexy.