Is it really that hard to be a photographer? Maybe this is just the resentment of someone who gets paid by the word, but to me, it looks like all you have to do is point and shoot. Compared to that, I'm digging ditches over here. Had Garland spent his $50 million budget on making the kind of libtard, death-to-muh-democracy fever dream that's been stupefying half of the country since 2016, he would've had a "Battlefield Earth"-level camp classic on his hands. The protagonists of Alex Garland's...
The No. 1 movie at the box office is a thinly veiled fantasy about assassinating Donald Trump. (Note: This column contains spoilers.)"Civil War," written and directed by Alex Garland, isn’t nearly as complicated, subtle, or apolitical as critics at the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Variety, and the New Yorker suggest. The best art depicts and predicts life. Tupac made art that called for violence. Garland’s art calls for violence against Trump.The point of Garland’s movie is simple: Killing...
The idea "Civil War" is not partisan is a lie, cinematic-roofie slipped into a publicity campaign to bend us Trumptards over the seats.
We’re only one week into the first criminal trial of Donald Trump, yet he and his MAGA allies are already intervening to identify and drive off the jury anyone they think could pose a risk to the former president. At Fox News, host Jesse Watters has launched attacks on the jurors, saying at one point that any juror who says they can be unbiased in the case is a liar, and citing Trump’s legal team as having uncovered potential jurors who were “undercover activists.” Trump himself quickly...
Actress Kirsten Dunst said that voting for President Biden in the 2024 presidential election is her only option, while noting that she didn't believe her latest movie was meant to parody the presidency of Donald Trump.The 41-year-old actress, best known for roles in the cheerleading hit "Bring It On" and Marvel's Spider-Man movies of the early 2000s, was interviewed about her latest film, "Civil War," and whether or not it is meant to be a statement about President Trump.The film's presidential...
Jon Stewart mocked Donald Trump on The Daily Show as the former POTUS campaigns and makes a run for the White House amid the hush money criminal trial. “Our former president and illustrious historian, Donald J. Trump, spoke near one of America’s most hallowed battlefields,” Stewart said on the Comedy Central show. “And if you […]
“Civil War,” the latest and ostensibly final film from director Alex Garland, has a lot on its mind. From the first scene in which the unnamed U.S. president, played by Nick Offerman, addresses a divided nation, it’s clear that this film was intended to comment on modern times. What’s less clear, however, is what it
From filmmaker Alex Garland comes a journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House.
Considered in the context of American politics circa 2024, the effect of director Alex Garland's worldbuilding is an accretion of creeping dread.
In his last directorial work before transitioning to writing, Alex Garland presents Civil War, his newest cinematic project distributed by A24 — their most expensive production to date with a reported budget of $50 million. The film unfolds in a dystopian future America, following a group of journalists embedded with the military as they race […]
The 58 men who are honoured on the war memorial in Cockenzie deserve their prominent position in a lovingly tended garden in the heart of the village and the council MUST reinstate the flower beds it removed
For those of us who love A24, Civil War is a milestone: It earned the quirky indie distributor its highest opening weekend box office to date. Granted, built-in controversy surely drew many viewers to this dystopian drama from English writer-director Alex Garland (Men, Annihilation, Ex Machina), which depicts a U.S. civil war in the present day. The deal We join said war already well in progress. It all appears to have started when the unnamed U.S. president (Nick Offerman) decided he...