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Monday, March 31, 2025
Films That I Saw: March 2025
Spring has arrived once again and well; things are pretty fucked up here in America. Yeah. We are in some bad times as everything is now costing more these days. Eggs. Canned food. Imported food and material. Yeah, thanks a lot Elon and Dookie Tank you fucking cunts. I recently joined Reddit as I have created my own account just to check out conversations and news as X is not a place to go to anymore. I have found a lot of interesting things including how the rest of the world sees the U.S. as there was a Swedish newsclip that had a picture of Russian president Vladimir Putin mentioned as the U.S. president. Honestly, they are not wrong. That is right Americans, we are now Russians so we will now have to sing their anthem. Putin is our real president with Elon as the vice president. Dookie Tank as our puppet-in-chief and J.D. Vance is the Bottom Bitch of that bunch.
News reports about people getting taken and deported as there has also been people at the University of Columbia in New York getting arrested with one person having been detained where no one knows where he is. The idea of forced disappearances now feels like a reality as it is now dangerous to live in the U.S. It is amazing that this country is supposed to be the representative of the free world where immigrants can be welcomed and be given the opportunity to prove themselves. That dream has already fucking died. I do not blame the rest of the world for looking down on us and I do not blame Canada and Mexico for putting tariffs on this country since Dookie Tank put tariffs on them first. After all, we did this to ourselves, and we have no one to blame but ourselves for believing in a bullshit system that allows ass-clowns like Dookie Tank to take power with politicians complaining about drag queens.
In the month of March 2025, I saw a total of 15 films 10 first-timers and 5 re-watches with 4 of those first-timers being films directed/co-directed by women as part of the 52 Films by Women pledge. Down from last month as I just spend time not doing anything while I still have writer’s block for my Auteurs piece on David Lean. The big highlight of the month and the best film of the month easily is my Blind Spot pick in The Sting. Here are the top 9 first-timers that I saw for March 2025:
One of the 2 short films that I saw on MUBI as the first is from Pawel Pawlikowski as it is a five-minute black-and-white silent film short with sound effects as it plays into the dynamic between a piano player and his muse. It is a comical short that explores that dynamic as it stars Malgoratza Bela and Marcin Masecki as the latter also does the music in the film. It is a fun and entrancing short that Pawlikowski makes with an ending that is shocking yet inventive.
Rotten: Behind the Foodfight
Ever wondered what it is like to participate in making one of the worst animated films ever made for the span of 15 years of production? Well, there is this documentary I found on YouTube about the making of the 2012 animated debacle that is Foodfight! Starring Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria, Hilary Duff, Wayne Brady, and Christopher Lloyd among others as it is widely considered one of the worst films ever made. The 54-minute documentary film by Ziggy Cashmere is an exploration of the chaos that went into production that include its director falling for one his animated creations, poor working conditions, theft, and a director’s ego as he tried to schmooze many studios into funding this film that cost ranging from $45 million to $65 million with a final gross of $120,000 where it was released to a few countries including Britain.
Someday
Directed by Spike Jonze and starring Pedro Pascal, this five-minute commercial/short has Pascal dealing with a break-up as he listens to music on his new Apple AirPods 4. It is a five-minute short that plays into a man’s emotions as he deals with heartbreak in the cold weather, but things will be fine as he might get someone new. It is a short filled with unique dance choreography as it displays the many talents that Pascal has dancing and moving around in different color schemes. Jonze creates something that is so fun to watch although who the fuck would break-up with Pedro Pascal?
Leguas
Lucrecia Martel’s 12-minute short that she made in 2015 has her exploring her themes of people living outside of conventional society as it revolves around kids from an Indigenous community in Argentina. Especially as it relates to them dealing with people from conventional society trying to take over their land as it plays into the importance of education. Even as it plays into this post-colonial world where Indigenous communities are shrinking with kids from that community dealing with the lack of a future.
Autobiografia di una Borsetta
The second short that I saw on MUBI is the 29th entry in Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales short films series and easily one of the best entries from that series from director Joanna Hogg. This 24-minute short film is told from the perspective of a Miu Miu handbag as it is purchased by a rich family for their teenage daughter. Then, a series of events happen where the bag would be in possession of one owner and then another throughout the film as it is set in Italy where a lot of things happen. A lot of it is said from that bag’s perspective as it is an unconventional short but one that shows the richness of a handbag that has a lot of personality.
Dark Side of the Ring(season 6, episode 1)
The newest season of the wrestling series on Vice opens with a story that every wrestling fan knows about, which is the 1998 King of the Ring pay-per-view event from WWE that featured the now-legendary match between the Undertaker and Mick Foley as Mankind in the Hell in the Cell cage match. The match is known for Undertaker throwing Foley off the top of the cage and Foley landing on the Spanish announce table and later being choke-slammed on top of the cage only for that top to break and Foley landing on the ring. The episode is more about Foley’s desire to do something memorable and at the cost of his own health as it features interviews with his wife Collette and a few of their kids including Noelle as the episode featured the infamous clip from Beyond the Mat in which Collette, Noelle, and one of Foley’s other kids watching the Rock hitting Foley with chair shots to the head. While Foley is still in good health having retired from wrestling, the effects of the physical abuse he took in wrestling still looms as his family worry about his mental state as he is getting older. It is an excellent episode though some of the things I learned about the cage including the fact that zip ties were used to hold some of the stuff on top of the cage is scary.
Well, that is all for March. Next month, the theatrical release I will watch will be Ryan Coogler’s Sinners though my Auteurs piece on him will have to wait longer as I want to finish my piece on Lean despite my writer’s block as I prefer to do an essay one at a time. The Blind Spot for next month is going to be Love Streams by John Cassavetes as I had a review prepared for it, but I went with The Sting since it was on Netflix and was about to leave the service. There will be other films I hope to catch up on though it is now more likely that I will not be posting a lot of reviews that I used to years ago.
Before I bid adieu, I want to express my condolences on those who passed away this month in such figures as Richard Chamberlain, George Foreman, Richard Norton, music engineer Terry Manning, Dodgers organist Nancy Bea Hefley, Denis Arndt, New York Times journalist Max Frankel, Bill Mercer, BBC Radio 1 DJ Andy Peebles, music video director Marty Callner, Emelie Dequenne, Jesse Colin Young of the Youngbloods, Wing Hauser, Jim Breazeale of the Atlanta Braves/Chicago White Sox, Bruce Glover, the original Emperor Palpatine in Clive Revill, film producer Stanley R. Jaffe, D’Wayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Tone`!, Roy Ayers, George Lowe aka Space Ghost, Angie Stone, and Joey Molland of Badfinger. We will miss you. This is thevoid99 signing off…
I've been enjoying Blue Sky as an alternative to Twitter. I hope more people continue to migrate there. I feel like I've been slacking in the movie department all month. I've been watching more TV, and recently binged a podcast about the Michael Jackson Trials (Telephone Stories) because why not? lol
I've been slacking as well as I've been dealing with stuff with my niece (who has allergies worse than mine) and nephew as well as writer's block for my Auteurs piece.
Your description of Vance placed an image in my head of a caricature of that a hole dressed up in bandage on all 4s being used as a footrest by Resident Rump who is one big bulging fat mass, Lily white except for his orange face. Musky is throwing money at the lump while Puddin' has them tied to strings as marionette. That lump has only been in power for 8 weeks and your country is now considered one of the most hated. That piece of crud blames Canada when he started the whole thing!! I just wish that Obama, Harris and Biden would speak up. Where are they? Why is it only Bernie Sanders speaking out? How much money and corruption is going on that he blatantly pisses on the Constitution? I believe there are many more people who hate what's going on and can make a difference. I believe in people, like you. I love The Sting which is a great film and a perfect send up of that era. I have not seen the other films.enjoy more movies this month.
Bernie should've been the ideal candidate in 2016 but the problem is that Americans don't want the idea of socialism because they are scared. There's no reason for Obama to say anything as he had his 8 years and boy do we wish we could have him back. Hell, I'll take 8 more years of W. Harris and Biden, fuck them. Biden is a gutless old fart who has no problem being complicit in the genocide of a group of people while Harris is a disingenuous bitch.
The question of why Obama, Biden, and Harris have been relatively silent has an easy answer. Most of what is happening doesn't genuinely affect them. No one really thinks that there's going to be prosecution against Biden or Harris just as there was never going to be any real legal action against Hilary Clinton in Donny's first term. What does Biden get by standing up? What does Obama get? All of our politics is transactional at some levelm and they have nothing to gain by speaking out and everything to risk by doing so.
In truth, all of them are further right than Eisenhower was. Decades of pursuing the left-most Republican voters has caused the Dems to slip further and further right. Bernie Sanders is filling auditoriums, and the rest of them (aside from AOC) haven't gotten the fucking hint yet.
Exactly. Eisenhower was a great president. There have been Republican leaders I liked such as John McCain and Orrin Hatch. At least they were rational. Democracy... what a fucking joke.
I gotta watch The Sting now after reading your review. I can see it being your fave watch in March. I also watched that Someday short with Pascal, so fun!! He can make anything watchable! Yeah, who'd break up with him??! LOL!
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I've been enjoying Blue Sky as an alternative to Twitter. I hope more people continue to migrate there. I feel like I've been slacking in the movie department all month. I've been watching more TV, and recently binged a podcast about the Michael Jackson Trials (Telephone Stories) because why not? lol
I've been slacking as well as I've been dealing with stuff with my niece (who has allergies worse than mine) and nephew as well as writer's block for my Auteurs piece.
Your description of Vance placed an image in my head of a caricature of that a hole dressed up in bandage on all 4s being used as a footrest by Resident Rump who is one big bulging fat mass, Lily white except for his orange face. Musky is throwing money at the lump while Puddin' has them tied to strings as marionette. That lump has only been in power for 8 weeks and your country is now considered one of the most hated. That piece of crud blames Canada when he started the whole thing!! I just wish that Obama, Harris and Biden would speak up. Where are they? Why is it only Bernie Sanders speaking out? How much money and corruption is going on that he blatantly pisses on the Constitution? I believe there are many more people who hate what's going on and can make a difference. I believe in people, like you.
I love The Sting which is a great film and a perfect send up of that era. I have not seen the other films.enjoy more movies this month.
Bernie should've been the ideal candidate in 2016 but the problem is that Americans don't want the idea of socialism because they are scared. There's no reason for Obama to say anything as he had his 8 years and boy do we wish we could have him back. Hell, I'll take 8 more years of W. Harris and Biden, fuck them. Biden is a gutless old fart who has no problem being complicit in the genocide of a group of people while Harris is a disingenuous bitch.
The question of why Obama, Biden, and Harris have been relatively silent has an easy answer. Most of what is happening doesn't genuinely affect them. No one really thinks that there's going to be prosecution against Biden or Harris just as there was never going to be any real legal action against Hilary Clinton in Donny's first term. What does Biden get by standing up? What does Obama get? All of our politics is transactional at some levelm and they have nothing to gain by speaking out and everything to risk by doing so.
In truth, all of them are further right than Eisenhower was. Decades of pursuing the left-most Republican voters has caused the Dems to slip further and further right. Bernie Sanders is filling auditoriums, and the rest of them (aside from AOC) haven't gotten the fucking hint yet.
Anyway...I really liked A Real Pain.
Exactly. Eisenhower was a great president. There have been Republican leaders I liked such as John McCain and Orrin Hatch. At least they were rational. Democracy... what a fucking joke.
I gotta watch The Sting now after reading your review. I can see it being your fave watch in March. I also watched that Someday short with Pascal, so fun!! He can make anything watchable! Yeah, who'd break up with him??! LOL!
I KNOW! Look at him, he's handsome. Plus, he is really pretty when he dresses up like a woman.
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