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Jesus de Montréal ⭐️7.4

A young actor is hired to make a remake of the Passion of the Christ, now religious authorities are opposing him and his piece.

Deny Arcand is an acclaimed Quebecers director, lately he got a « the woke are wrecking the society » phase which is particularly funny seeing his older films (like Cotton Mills, Treadmill)

There’s some great acting from Robert Lepage and Rémy Girard who, in a scene, dub two guys in XXX movie.

https://www.imdb.com/fr-ca/title/tt0097635/Open linkView original on startrek.website

Walker 6.6⭐️

There’s a Alex Cox (Sid and Nancy, RepoMan[not the one with Jude Law and Forest Whitaker])retrospective on Criterion.

I cannot enough suggest Repoman it’s great punk film that shoot at everything

So today I jumped at the possibility to see another movie from Cox. Walker it was. Magistral performance by Harris that play William Walker as a crazy Christian mercenary, there’s some really great used of the voice over unreliable narrator and an unhinged critic of US international politics in the 80s

Over all great flick

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096409/Open linkView original on startrek.website

The International (2009 film) 6.5⭐️

There’s a bundle « corporate thriller » on Criterion. I’ve watch antitrust which didn’t scratch my hitch but is a cool view of the Silicon Valley 2000s culture

In The International Clive Owen play an Interpol investigator that tail an assassin into money laundering, gun selling bank. The wiki explain it better than me but watch out for the spoilers

The International (2009 film) 6.5⭐️https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_(2009_film)Open linkView original on startrek.website