Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Throw Down 2004

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Kids at play never wanna grow up.

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  The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Helm Hammerhand of He-Man fame.

Popular reviews

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  City of Hope 1991

  ★★★★½ Added 2

  I wonder if David Simon watched this before The Wire. It’s got everything but the drug trade. A fictional town in New Jersey brimming with racial tension, homophobia, city-machine and police corruption. Sayles and Robbie Richardson weave in and out of these interconnected stories with such aplomb. It’s a beautiful movie of a city on the verge of collapse. And after a while you get this feeling, as the characters each come to their own threshold, of this grand inertness.…

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  4 Little Girls 1997

  ★★★★ Added

  Towards the end, Spike interviews George Wallace. He’s old and has a raspy voice. But he smokes a cigar like a triumphant, white colonialist. He croaks to Spike that his best friend is a black guy. Then he parades said black guy in front of the camera for proof. The black guy looks sheepishly at the filmmakers. Wallace looks beat down but cognizant that cameras don’t lie. He’s right they don’t. They reveal exactly who you are. A coward who…