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Reviews
A Christmas Together with You (2021)
A fine addition to the Hallmark Christmas movies
Hallmark has upped their game this year with some very good Christmas movies. A Christmas Together With You is no exception. It has an excellent cast and a very warm and charming story. That said, someone please, for the love of God, give Megan (Laura Vandervoort) a sandwich!
Midnight Mass (2021)
Preachy and conceited
Midnight Mass is guilty of the very things it condemns. I mean, my God, is it preachy! They treat Islam with great reverence, while pummeling Christianity. Mocking Christianity is easy, and it's lazy. But to do so while gushing all over Islam is cynical, cowardly, and pandering. I won't spoil it, but I mean, just look at how they treated the endings for the priest versus the Muslim sheriff. All of that aside, the worst of all was the incessant self-assured, superior preaching by the Riley and Erin characters. Their messages were forms of Buddhism, in that we are all connected and are all part of a great cosmic dream. That is all well and good. I respect people's belief systems. The message isn't the problem. It is that they (the writers) are the same as the snarky, snobby, self-righteous, and self-assured Bev character and they don't even realize it. They *know* all the answers and they have disdain for those who are on an inferior astral plane.
That said, its pace was a bit slow. They could have knocked off at least one episode and made it more taut. But it did hold my attention and I watched it to the decent conclusion.
The Hunger (1983)
Deneuve and Bowie should have swapped roles
This is a self-serving, pretentious, snails' pace of a movie. It falls in love with its own aesthetic, like Narcissus with his own reflection, and ironically squanders the beauty and talent of David Bowie in the process. To make things worse, Catherine Deneuve slept walked through her performance. It would have been an exponentially better movie if Deneuve and Bowie swapped roles. This should have been cut by a third and added as part of a self-serving, pretentious, but at least tight, anthology.