Old Possum's Movie Review

My blog reviews movies as political, historical or social commentary with intentional disregard for their artistic or cinematic value. One foe of American political scientists and economists is that they ignore movies as sources to inform them on changes in American culture, view exoticism as a hallmark of "foreigness" and, at the same time, impart American values and judgment to foreign movies.

Saturday, July 26, 2025

Ari Aster. Eddington.

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 Weird and too long, it is still a wonderful movie. The movie shows an American dysfunction of the Trump era much better than the misguided ...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

Elio.

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             Visually appealing and inventive, especially when alien lifeforms are concerned movie, which is pasted from already existent st...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

The Phoenician Scheme by Wes Anderson.

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          The problem with Wes Anderson as is with his youth pal Noah Baumbach (and P. T. A. Anderson ) is that they rarely leave their co...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Accountant-2 and Fight or Flight

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          Continuing my tradition of dual reviews I enter two decently rated thrillers: Accountant-2 and Fight or Flight. Accountant-2 -- br...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Nocturnes.

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              A wonderful and boring movie. I went to see it thinking that it will be a new "March of the Penguins" but nobody is ...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Oscar nominated shorts. Animation.

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         This years' animation shorts are a revenge for incomparable Flow . Only one, an Iranian cartoon, "In the Shadow of the Cyp...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

The end of something

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             Physics Nobelist Hans Bethe once noticed that what is left of the development of human culture is science only. He observed tha...
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Alex Bliokh (Alexander Semionovich) is a retired engineer from USSR missile program biding his time to Alzcheimer's at one of upstate New York nursing homes near Corning. I invite you to visit my other blogs.
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