jorge @franziafanon.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Severance finale came out. Read my review on @thenation.com : www.thenation.com/article/cult... 101
Reposted by jorgeThe Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 18/03/2025The workplace nightmares of Severance not only dramatizes our alienation from labor but how capitalism alienates us from ourselves.thenation.comThe Workplace Nightmares of “Severance”The appeal of the Apple TV+ series is how it dramatizes our alienation from labor. 16916
jorge @franziafanon.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Very excited that this cluster is out in the world. 🙏🏼 071
jorge @franziafanon.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I did review Alfonso Cuaron's television show -- a show that wants to be a soapy thriller but gets bogged down in voiceover and didacticism. www.thenation.com/article/cult...thenation.comThe Empty Thrills of Alfonso Cuarón’s “Disclaimer”Why did the great Mexican filmmaker make a soapy thriller? 010
Reposted by jorgeSam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 28/11/2024I find it so funny when people are like, “I like Lin-Manuel Miranda, I just wish he weren’t so corny.” Like, what do you think the #1 requirement for a composer of musical theatre is. 303276451590
jorge @franziafanon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I watched Gladiator II last night. The good: Ridley Scott can still direct the hell out of an action sequence -- all the gladiator battles are sick. Denzel is indeed as much fun as everyone is saying. The bad: The storytelling does not seem to have advanced in 24 years. Everything is shorthand. 100
jorge @franziafanon.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Time to check in on my little friends at Meerkat Manor 000
jorge @franziafanon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Having finally caught up with industry (devastated)... what tv show should i start? 000
jorge @franziafanon.bsky.social · 08/03/2024Is Dune about The Chosen One, or a critique of chosen one narratives? I wrote about how the movie's built-in ambivalence doesn't lead to greater complexity, and lets viewers off the hook instead. www.thenation.com/article/cult...thenation.comWhat’s Missing From “Dune: Part Two”While Frank Herbert’s original series was about the dangers of messianism, Denis Villeneuve’s rendition wields ambivalence like a secret weapon in its effort to avoid the tough questions. 000
jorge @franziafanon.bsky.social · 26/10/2023"Unlike the flat landscape of a traditional western, the horizon in [Killers of the Flower Moon] is not an unbounded space of American freedom. It is hedged in by the upward sprays of oil and the stark verticality of oil rigs." I reviewed the new Scorsese www.thenation.com/article/cult... 030
