Favorite films

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  What Remains 2022

  ★★ Watched 07 Jan 2025

  Childhood trauma ASMR by great actors

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  Brother Sun, Sister Moon 1972

  ★★½ Watched 15 Apr 2024

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  "Watch hippies in Italy become Saints and tell the Pope he's too fancy"

  Is my one-sentence synopsis, I'd add at times sensitive, preachy, clumsy, and visually masterful. My overall review is "it was fine" with some great little moments. I think, besides some great sequences I found adept, the whole thing could be cut down to enhance the magical imagery of Italy in what would make a beautiful Donovan music video. I'm interested to know…

Popular reviews

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  Fire and Sword 1982

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Dec 2020 5

  Watched a rare edit. A fragmented German version with English subtitles. I don't suggest the theatrical version or the versions available (at the moment anyway in 2020) which are poor quality DVDs or VHS tapes. Anything else seemed to ruin the mood and beautiful cinematography (oh god, the sleepy low contrast lighting and the earth tones, the textures...they need to restore this to even further enhance what I'm talking about). It's a slow but well paced heartbreaking re-telling of Tristan…

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  Deep Cover 1992

  ★★½ Watched 14 Apr 2024

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  I have thoughts... (but have many more)

  Deep Cover & Hollywood's commercialization of Black culture in film during the early 90's.

  Deep Cover was based on a book of the same name by Michael Levine, the screenplay was written by white men and was supposed to star a white male lead. Regardless, the writers still originally set out to tackle subjects like social inequality, the war on drugs, power, and corruption. Gladly, because the lead…