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12/18/2020
Ai Weiwei takes viewers to the streets for the scariest parts of recent Hong Kong political protests.
A vivid look at what it means for populations to rise up against governments intent on curbing their liberties, Ai Weiwei s
Cockroach takes us to the streets of Hong Kong in 2019, as young people violently resist measures chipping away at their independence from mainland China. The third doc Ai has released this year (following
Coronation and the Sundance entry
Vivos), it s among his most effective films to date tightly focused and morally urgent. As an example of civilian/police conflict that has become literally incendiary, its relevance to current protests for justice in America should be obvious.
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12/11/2020
Joe Manganiello plays a homeless drunk who may or may not be an interdimensional warrior in Adam Egypt Mortimer s midnight movie.
Sharing DNA with everything from
The Terminator and contemporary superhero films to
The Fisher King and
Liquid Television, Adam Egypt Mortimer s
Archenemy is named for a villain who may exist only in the mind of a homeless schizophrenic. Joe Manganiello plays that man, who calls himself Max Fist and claims to be a hero who got stuck on our Earth after saving all life in some other dimension; that claim s truth may or may not matter to the aspiring blogger (Skylan Brooks) who wants to ride Fist s boasts to viral fame. A critique of post-millennial journalism is one of several ideas raised but mostly abandoned in this genre pastiche, which never really coalesces despite some promising elements.