Just watch the first two minutes and 37 seconds of Leonardo DiCaprio and Fisher Stevens‘ Before The Flood, a climate change and global ruination doc that’s currently streaming on YouTube’s National Geographic channel. It uses Heironymous Bosch‘s The Garden of Earthly Delights to lay out a concise and effective introduction of the basic theme. This plus the handsome high-def resolution makes you want to watch the whole thing. Rotten Tomatoes has given it a 70% score.
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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