Author: Alex K
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Movie: 1612 (Khroniki Smutnogo Vremeni)
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Read more: Movie: 1612 (Khroniki Smutnogo Vremeni)This was one fucked up movie. The Time of Troubles lasted from 1598 to 1613 between the death of Tsar Feodor and the establishment of the Romanov dynasty
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
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Read more: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)Here at Ruthless, we have and will never stop singing the praises of Robert Altman. He was and he remains Americas greatest director
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Doctor on Faith Healing Hoax and Religiously Impaired Parents
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Read more: Doctor on Faith Healing Hoax and Religiously Impaired ParentsMineral water, green veg, and prayer. Over 500 years since the printing press was invented, and we still do this shit?
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Watership Down (1978)
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Read more: Watership Down (1978)Watership Down is an animated film about one group of rabbits who struggle against the impossible odds that nature allows animals residing at the base of an aggressive food chain.
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Madagascar (2005)
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Read more: Madagascar (2005)Not only an extraordinary place, but invulnerable to pandemics like Covid.
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Being a doctor in rural Africa
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Read more: Being a doctor in rural AfricaRural Kenya in winter is colder than one would expect, even when you are from Wisconsin. The hospital where I am working is effectively isolated from the rest of the world. The phone works rarely, and the internet connection exists only in theory.
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The Wages of Fear (1953)
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Read more: The Wages of Fear (1953)Humanity is no match for the power of hunger.
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Used Cars (1980)
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Read more: Used Cars (1980)This magnum opus from Kurt Russell’s heyday reminds one of a time when movies existed seemingly for their own sake; rather than a line in a ledger, they were works of art instead of an appeal for relevance, a “statement” of some sort, or a way to polish one’s ego with a useless Academy Award…
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Army of Shadows (1969)
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Read more: Army of Shadows (1969)On its surface, this is a precise examination of the French Resistance, shot in a documentary style on location.
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District 9 (2009)
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Read more: District 9 (2009)As action flicks go, District 9 excels beyond measure, but leave it to a genre film with B-movie splatter gore sensibility to create an immersive experience that generates more human pathos than a hundred overcooked dramas about the holocaust or racism.