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Mr. Jones - (2019 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6828390/
https://westendfilms.com/screeners/mr_jones.html

A former foreign advisor turned citizen-journalist travels to his mother's homeland of Ukraine only to discover that communism doesn't work and the main stream media is fake news.

It's patient and moody, and, although it has its truth, it's release is American propaganda timed for the Russia-Ukraine war.



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Tyson - (1995 movie) image

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114759/

A biopic of Mike Tyson.

It was only fair, and I didn't finish it. I ended it with the predictably-horrible wife.



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Crumb - (1994 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109508/
https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/crumb

A documentary about Robert Crumb.

A lineage of broken genetics is passed on to children, one of whom drew odd things oddly and got famous because normies couldn't or wouldn't do it. He got and stayed famous because he got there first. Everyone fawns over him to be cool.

There's a lot of anti-consumerism, anti-industry and general cultural critique. Unfortunately, the whole thing gets interesting only in the latter third, and the good cultural critique is scattered throughout that.

All things considered, this isn't a great movie, an interesting person or an interesting topic. For people unaware of the reality, this shows the broken side of certain kinds of artist.

Not recommended.



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The Internet's Own Boy - (2014 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268458/
See https://participant.com/?s=the+internet%27s+own

A documentary on Aaron Swartz and some of the major events he participated in.

Malcolm X (1992) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104797/

A black man is black and something something racism white men are bad but that's totally not racist.

Oh god this is so bad. I gave this more than a half an hour and I was bounced between being insulted, offended, angered and bored.



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Underground - (1997 book), by Suelette Dreyfus and Julian Assange cover

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(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20080528034440/https://www.underground-book.com/ [ 1 ] Also https://web.archive.org/web/20190701140045/http://www.underground-book.net:80/

To re-read

Note that there is an updated print edition.



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The Aviator - (2004 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338751/

A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.

What crap.



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