Change Your Image
JCrosson
Reviews
Last Supper (1992)
right and left
This film is a definite slap in the face for the progressive left. In summary, a group of leftist college kids find the best form of activism is to get drastic and create an almost literal war on the right. This film has excellent social commentary through the use of incorporating constant dinner conversations among the liberal Scooby-dooesk gang and one extreme fascist dinner guest holding different opinions (DIFFERENT being an understatement). It is able to show how the extreme left can almost be as dangerous as the extreme right (ALMOST being the operative word), while answering the common post-1945 question "would you kill Hitler if you had the chance?" Or even more importantly, "Can you?".
Better Than Chocolate (1999)
could this movie be more awful?
This movie can be summarized with one word: awful. The cinematography, the plot lines, the beginning, middle and end were just awful. As this seemingly low-budget movie tried to take an outdated political stance and a certain pride dealing with queer issues, it fails to capture the audience of today by both alienating the unexpected viewer with pornographic images and a thin/weak theme. Chocolate presents confusing and mixed messages about women's, more specifically queer women's sexuality and politics (IE The movie over-sexualized lesbians in a pornographic way as to entice straight male viewers while trying to instill pro-queer values in the same viewers). The awfulness of the plot was all topped off with an even more awful Hallmark ending presented by these horrible actors. Do yourself a favor and avoid this movie like the plague, if anything it is a counter production of the queer rights movement.