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Blackplugs

Favorite films

  • The Iron Rose
  • Stalker
  • A Woman Under the Influence
  • The Devil

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  • Gladiator II

  • Anora

    ★★★★½

  • No Other Land

    ★★★★½

  • The Order

    ★★★½

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  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    ★★★★½

    This documentary should be mandatory viewing in every American high school. 
    Seek it out, watch and share.

  • Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

    Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

    ★★★

    Inspirational.

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  • Gaga: Five Foot Two

    Gaga: Five Foot Two

    ½

    Lady Gaga affords us a carefully edited insight into her decadent life of narcissistic self-obsession. 
    We follow the diminutive pop princess around as an entourage of giggling sycophants bow, crawl and grovel to her every desire. 
    Clearly the project was made with the "In bed With Madonna" documentary in mind, only Gaga's film takes no risks, exposes no insecurities and avoids at all costs showing its star in anything other than a favourable light. 
    What really struck me was once…

  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    ★★★★★

    To watch a film that's held up to be one of the all time greats is a daunting task, however Sunrise, more than lived up to the weight of my expectation. German expressionist director F. W. Murnau (Nosferatu, Faust) made Sunrise for the Fox Film corporation in 1927 and it proved a milestone of artistic and technical innovation.
    Murnau, a director open to experimentation employed the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system, as a consequence Sunrise became one of the first films…