Dear White People (15)
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Verdict: Racial ructions at university Samantha White is a mixed-race campus radio agitator who lays down the law about how many black friends whiteys need to prove non-racism, and announces that anyone who says ‘African-American' instead of ‘black' secretly means the N-word.
Scroll down for video Director Justin Simien's gentle mockery of black victimhood in Dear White People may play interestingly following the massacre in Charlestown,
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She is actually dating a white guy and has a white father; but ‘identifies' fiercely as black (echoes of the Rachel Dolezal case, where a white girl did just that).
She defends her ‘culture' by throwing out white students who use the mainly black house's dining-hall because the food is better.
She's a pain, but then some of the white kids are worse, organising a ‘release your inner negro' Halloween party where they black up, rap, and wear Obama masks.
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It is hard to know how director Justin Simien's gentle mockery of black victimhood will feel in the aftermath of the Charleston shooting, but it's an interesting exercise.
Tessa Thompson is Sam and Dennis Haysbert the black dean, bringing exasperated patriarchal good sense.
The geeky star for me was Tyler James Williams as Lionel, a black wannabe journalist recruited by the cynical editor of the white student newspaper.
The Human Centipede 3 (18)Rating:
Verdict: Nasty, revolting, and dull to boot And so to the dregs. I can't detail the plot — too many anuses — but Tom Six's The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence), to give it its full name, advertises itself as ‘nasty, revolting, utterly deplorable' without mentioning that it is also racist, misogynistic, ill-written torture-porn too tediously clunking even to be camp.
The Human Centipede 3 advertises itself as ‘nasty, revolting, utterly deplorable' without mentioning that it is also racist, misogynistic, ill-written torture-porn too tediously clunking even to be camp, writes Purves
Psycho prison governor Dieter Laser, who has fewer facial and vocal expressions than his Stetson hat, invents an extreme punishment ‘to prevent recidivism'.
A political moment at the end offers a cynical pretence at satire, and fails.I had forgotten there were films this bad, and am not grateful to be reminded.