Adventures Daily

gamers in 2018:

ALL ANIMALS

Because @thetygre is a jerk for making me choose.  These are in no particular order because I refuse to give you the satisfaction!

The City of Lost Children (La cité des enfants perdus)

Franklyn (not the greatest film, with a see through plot, but gorgeous)

Seven Samurai

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

Ed Wood

Steam Boy (First anime movie I ever bought)

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Big Hero 6 (Shut up, I have a weakness for big friendly robots, alright?!)

The Boy and the Beast (Bakemono no Ko)

Sacha Baron Cohen is a skilled troll, whose work is fuelled by contempt—though he’d probably prefer to be described as a bouffon, the rule-breaking clown who exposes hypocrisy. (Baron Cohen studied with the French clown Philippe Gaulier, an expert on the tradition.) When his sketches get laughs, they’re barks of disgust, as when I found myself yelling, “Are you fucking kidding me?” during the now-famous montage of prominent N.R.A. shills, including the former congressmen Trent Lott and Joe Walsh, plugging a program to train toddlers to shoot guns. The show uses nihilism as a stripping agent, sort of the way the Cat in the Hat touted Voom as the proper method to clean up the stain he’d helped create. During its weaker segments, it’s juvenile—and, in maddening, unexamined ways, misogynist. But during that Kinderguardian segment, which manages to nail the G.O.P., the N.R.A., and right-wing support for Israel, Baron Cohen’s method is like radiation: sickening, but better than cancer, unless it kills you first. He’s Tocqueville by way of Willy Wonka, a sadist who’s certain he can separate bad eggs from good ones.