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Birthmarked (2018)-Timestamp Roulette

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Birthmarked (2018) is about two scientists who raise their children (one biological, two adopted) as an experiment about nature versus nurture. They raise each child to be the opposite of their parents. When the experiment’s benefactor threatens to pull funding, things at the house become tense and the entire experiment is called into question.

For the most part, Birthmarked is not “laugh out loud funny.” It’s trying to be Wes Anderson, specifically The Royal Tenenbaums. We don’t spend much time with the kids except for pieces of a film they’re shooting, which is finally shown at the climax. The movie is more focused on the lives of the parents, and the experiment is of course a metaphor for parenting in general.

This isn’t a great movie, but it has an original story, clear characters, and a pretty good script. Toni Collette is great as the strong mother having a nervous breakdown, and the kids are funny and cute. I enjoyed living in this film for ninety minutes. In today’s world of too many images and too much content, I can’t really recommend this film. It’s not spectacular in any way. But if I found this movie on the shelf at Hollywood Video (we weren’t a Blockbuster family), I would have thought it was a pretty good pick. It’s charmingly direct-to-video!

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Shattered Politics #92: White House Down (dir by Roland Emmerich)

To say that the 2012 film White House Down is stupid is probably unnecessary.  After all, the film was directed by Roland Emmerich and Emmerich specializes in making stupid films.

And, in many ways, White House Downis prototypical Emmerich film, a long and self-important collection of mayhem and heavy-handed pontification.  In the case of this film, liberal President Sawyer (Jamie Foxx) is…

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