What the F is Going On!?! Part Eight: Modern Wareware
Donald Trump campaigned on being the Peace President, claiming to end wars in Ukraine and Gaza quickly after entering office. While Ukraine’s peace talks have been turbulent, Gaza has a cease fire agreement with mixed results Trump has claimed to have ended somewhere between seven and nine wars around the globe, although his interaction and the efficacy of the “ending" of these wars have been questionable. We do know that the US became involved in Israeli bombing of Iran, bo
What the F is Going on!?! Part Seven: Worst Case Scenarios
I picked out my relevant movies in the middle of the summer, and the context of their inclusion didn’t seem especially clear at the time, just that they gave a little insight to the ideology of the Trump Administration. As time has gone on, the parallels are much less hypothetical and much more directly relating to current events by the day. This is a bigger batch of movies from the watch list, but they very much show parallel ideology, worst case scenario playing out of even
What the F is going on!?! Part Six: Biblical Proportions
Recently, President Trump has mused to reporters about his prospects of getting into heaven, mentioning that he doesn’t think he is currently on his way there but may have a chance. It’s a very strange way for a president to be talking, however he is the oldest inaugurated president in US history at 78 in January, having survived a very real Covid scare in his first administration that followed the death of his brother. He is pondering his own mortality, and although we have
What the F is Going On!?! Part Five: Protest
I had initially included The Trial of the Chicago 7 in my list of movies that relate to current events as a reference to the government’s...
What the F is going on!?! Part Four: The Humor of it
Who knew the world going to shit could be so funny? Heavy satire of current events is hardly a new concept and doing it in film isn’t...
What the F is Going On!?! Part Three: Iranian Film
When the US bombed Iranian nuclear sites this summer, I made a list of Iranian films to watch and write about. While the strikes between...
What the F is Going On!?! Part Two: Science Fiction
What the F is Going on!?! Part Two: Science Fiction Science fiction can be used as a genre to predict the future, H.G. Welles sprinkled...
What the F is going on!?! Part One: The Big Board
In the last few weeks, current events here in the United States have gone a bit wild, and as a cinephile/politics junky I couldn’t help...
2024 at the Movies
My tradition of catching up with movies in the following summer remains intact, here are my top-20 movies of 2024. In other years I tend...
Five Years Later: 2019 Movies
This has become more than just a habit. Every year I take on the exercise to take a look back at the movies from five years prior to see...
