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BY<br />
DOUGLAS TSENG<br />
War Machine (NC16)<br />
Starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Michael Hall,<br />
Ben Kingsley | Directed by David Michôd<br />
| On Netflix<br />
Brad Pitt’s turn as a four-star<br />
US general trying to win the<br />
“unwinnable” War on Terror<br />
in Afghanistan is a hoot: A<br />
buffoonish cross between his<br />
himbo gym instructor in Burn<br />
After Reading and the badass<br />
commando in Inglourious<br />
Basterds. The rest of the movie,<br />
however, is on less stable ground:<br />
Is this supposed to be a satire or<br />
a commentary? It’s too jokey to<br />
be serious and too serious to be<br />
funny. Darn confusing.<br />
Get Me Roger Stone (NC16)<br />
Starring Roger Stone | Directed by Dylan<br />
Bank, Daniel DiMauro & Morgan Pehme<br />
| On Netflix<br />
Eye-opening docu about Roger<br />
Stone, the self-proclaimed “agent<br />
provocateur” and longtime<br />
political advisor of President<br />
Donald Trump (it was he who<br />
first suggested that Trump make<br />
a run for the White House way<br />
back in the late 1980s), and the<br />
sinister role he has played in<br />
subverting American democracy<br />
(using disinformation and<br />
fearmongering) since Richard<br />
Nixon’s administration.<br />
Born to be Blue (NC16)<br />
Starring Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo | On<br />
iTunes & Google Play<br />
If La La Land introduced you to<br />
jazz, then follow that up with<br />
this biopic about legendary jazz<br />
trumpeter Chet Baker. Ethan<br />
Hawke gives a mesmerising<br />
performance as the James Dean<br />
of Jazz who attempts a career<br />
comeback in the 1960s after it<br />
was derailed by heroin addiction.<br />
But his volatile relationship<br />
with his actress-girlfriend (Alien:<br />
Covenant’s Carmen Ejogo)<br />
threatens to get in the way.<br />
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