Team America: World Police is a metaphor expressed as a parody. It shows a high sense of humor and the most rare of all senses, the sense of ridicule. There aren't many people gifted with that. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, two of the best comic creators alive, are known by you from South Park. There's another quirk with South Park. You like it or you hate it. I think that in between can sneak the guys who don't get it (like the ones who don't get Twitter, an army, actually). This is humor, … [Read more...]
Spirited Away and Other Stories
An animation movie from one of the most acclaimed directors from Japan, Spirited Away is maybe the first movie of his genre, figuring in the Top 250 list on imdb, on a position very hard to alter and for people who haven't seen it, utterly unbelievable, position 45. I haven't said it's the first animation to make that particular top, which is not as the imdb rating system, is something different and complex, his position is the first, ahead of a lot of other "famous" movies. As subjective as any … [Read more...]
The Fantastic Mr. Anderson
Magnificent Wes Anderson! And Noah Baumbach, the writer of this marvelous masterpiece of a film, animated motion picture. “Alcohol is dangerous to the health” and “Go-hide-in-your-rat-holes-and-leave-us-along-to-make-more-and-more-shitloads-of-money” can be the morale of this wonderful tale, along with something more, regarding the pursue of true talent, friendship, humanity and the instinct to survive. Plenty of voice talent as well, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, (a … [Read more...]