Favorite films

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  Taxi to the Dark Side 2007

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Battle of Algiers 1966

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  Long Live Algeria & all the other countries mainly North African & Middle Eastern that the west or soviets, (in the case of Afghanistan both) have invaded & thankfully failed. A lesson in both the atrocities of past colonialism by western countries, in this case France, and a lesson in rebellion against such regimes. Though horrifying to see torture, and the tragic, heartbreaking violence perpetrated against the innocent Algerians, if one does not learn about the past they will repeat it, many people,…

Popular reviews

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  Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 23 Jun 2024

  Unequivocally the favorite film of mine. It’s a film, that to me is therapeutic. It leaves the door open for ambiguity, not only mystery, but the fact  that in real life there are no reasons why things happen. Our brains often are wired to ask “why did this happen?” or “how did this happen?” When, in reality we will never know or find closure or meaning, because there is no meaning in life other then the meaning one group or…

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  Whiplash 2014

  ½ Watched 22 Mar 2023

  Do yourself a favor and instead watch Treme a certified classic aptly critically acclaimed tv series by David Simon, that’s what music is realistically, not this white washed bs called Whiplash. Whiplash equates to trash.
  Competition and aggression in Jazz? 
  If I could give this zero stars I would, as someone who grew up with a drummer in the family, one that went to Berkeley College of music (not me someone in my family), this film according to him is…

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