Courtney Smith (cleighs)
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Courtney's Recent Reviews
The Messenger
R
Very powerful, lets you read your own political ideas into the wars (but does seem to tip against them).
Somers Town
Unrated
Pretty goddamned adorable. Even uninformed people know the Muslims are crawling all over Europe, but it takes a bit more information to know that England has a lot of Polish immigrants right now and that England isn't populated by royalty and rich people.
Courtney's Favorite Movies
Serenity
PG-13
Pure poetry. Beautiful, political, funny, smart. MUST watch Firefly first. Otherwise the revelation has little impact.
My Beautiful Laundrette
R
A study in the interplay between class, race and nation. Beautifully written film (it should've gotten the Oscar, screw 'Hannah and Her Sisters'). This is one of the only films Daniel Day-Lewis has been in that was set in the present and not based on a book (so, we see him with really bad 80s hairs and clothes dancing to bad 80s music - I can see why he does adapted period pieces...)
