The History of Concrete review – John Wilson’s first movie is an absurd triumph

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Sundance film festival: the documentarian’s feature debut, essentially an extended episode of his HBO series, turns an exploration of concrete into a meditation on change For those in the know, the release of the Sundance film festival lineup last December contained one perfect, tantalizing log line, for a documentary plainly called The History of Concrete: “After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, filmmaker John Wilson tries to use the same formula to sell a documentary about concrete.” Wilson, a film-maker from the Nathan Fielder school of meandering, bone-dry observational comedy, is a master of the modern documentary-essay-memoir, with an uncanny eye for the idiosyncratic, unintentionally hilarious and disturbing vignettes hiding in plain sight. Over three near-perfect seasons, his peerless HBO series How To With John Wilson , executive-produced by Fielder, spun spoofs of practical guides (“How to Cook the Perfect Risotto”) into profound meditations...
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The ugliest of the Kardashian sisters?: On Khloe Kardashian’s birthday, together with a psychologist

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Despite the fact that Khloe Kardashian has achieved some success both as an actress and as an entrepreneur, she still loses to her sisters in popularity. And at the mention of the name Kardashian, the name Kim immediately pops up in the minds of most people, while many do not even suspect the existence of Khloe. If we look to where, in the opinion of many, all the troubles of a person come from, that is, in childhood, we can easily see that it did not go so smoothly. Today, Chloe is doing her best to promote body positivity and has even released a separate clothing line. The girl regularly posts her hard workouts on the blog, and her special diets are walking around the Web. She can not do without the help of plastic surgeons. All this shows that the topic of one's own body is still quite acute for a celebrity, despite the weight shed. This is probably why the reality star is unable to completely avoid body-shaming. Another interesting episode from the biography when her older sisters graduated from school, Chloe also stopped visiting her, transferring to homeschooling. Of course, the reasons for this may be different, but the fact remains that she did not study without relatives. Although, by the way, she graduated from high school with honors. It is unlikely that the divorce of her parents passed without a trace for the girl; she was then only five years old. And if before that she was just the youngest of the sisters, then after the new marriage, her mother was exactly in the middle of a series of sisters: 2 older sisters and two younger siblings. Khloe has become a kind of link between the two halves - not the easiest position in the family.

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