Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Love in the Face of Genocide 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Stunning, both for how the traditional folk songs are presented and the visuals helping them permeate deeply, a living archive of the pain carried for generations.

  Online screening on arteeast.org as part of Voices Of Resistance And Heritage: Stories of Kurdish Women and Culture

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Worth being dragged to the cinema by the sister for, Soderbergh playing with spy games genre tropes and having as much fun as Cate Blanchett is with her gorgeous brunette wig, making it look effortlessly smooth and entertaining as it's supposed to be in a tidy 90 minutes. Special mention to the warm lighting.

Popular reviews

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  Snow White 2025

  ½ Watched 19 Mar 2025 3

  from Film Workers For Palestine:

  Marvel’s parent company Disney is remaking Snow White featuring one of Hollywood’s most vocal propagandists for Israel’s genocide - actor and former IDF soldier Gal Gadot - in the role of the Evil Queen. We amplify the growing calls of Palestinian filmmakers “to do everything humanly possible to stop and end complicity with this unspeakable horror; and stand against working with production companies that are deeply complicit in dehumanizing Palestinians, or whitewashing and justifying Israel’s…

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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ½ Watched 13 Feb 2025 4

  Boycott Captain America: Brave New World and Snow White! petition link

  from FILM WORKERS FOR PALESTINE

  Captain America: Brave New World and Snow White, both due for release in early 2025, are attempts by Marvel and Disney to normalize anti-Palestinian racism and cover up Israel’s ongoing carnage in Gaza. The latest film in the Captain America franchise revives an anti-Palestinian character, Ruth Bat-Seraph aka “Sabra”, who first appeared in the Marvel universe in 1980 as an operative for Israel’s criminal…