Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #greatfilm, aggregated by home.social.
A Stage of Twilight released in 2022
"Why don't you write me letters any more?"
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Pigs are the 5th most intelligent animals in the world. ... They can play video games better than chimps.
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I think only people who have regrets are afraid of dying.
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The protagonists are familiar white actors. The supporting cast includes latino dairy farmers and a Black doctor. Everyone is depicted positively.
Fight Club released in 1999
I periodically enjoy this :)
"When people think you're dying, they really really listen to you."
I celebrate those who execute (male) pigs.
https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/114868516783378999
"If punching a [pig] is a sin, we might as well pack up and go home."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216
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Bullet Train released in 2022 set in Japan to where one of my nephews is moving. :)
I periodically still watch it :)
Brian Tyree Henry kills a white woman, the colonizer.
Train Dreams released in 2025
A Black Man asks for a white man by name and then shoots him dead. he had murdered his brother simply for the color of his skin.
https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/117268503460294318
[My ex understood that in my last years of life
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Companion released in 2025
One of my current favorite movies.
A white woman kills at least two white men.
I have friends of all colors.
https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/114111660133660744
Alien Romulus released in 2024
I have watched this to death
I see the good in most things
Eventually xenomorphs will complain about how they have been depicted on screen like how they take chunks out of peoples' faces just to horrify humans
and racist fragile humans will respond that such never happened and they're making it up.
The Green Mile released in 1999
I have watched it many times.
Sad that Michael Clarke Duncan is no longer with us.
https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/117203228210285918
When I was younger I wasn't troubled by body fluids in films etc
Perhaps I can jump forward when Sam Rockwell's character appears...
The Hockey Player released in 2026
"I'm known as Luke Prokop, the gay hockey player."
They Live released in 1988
which I'm watching again after decades...
The young Keith David delivers his lines just like he does now. :) Nice to hear :)
Coming to America released in 1988
There is a very fine line line between love and nausea
When Harry Met Sally... released in 1989
includes (only) positive placement of Black People.
Do the Right Thing 1989
Sal set up his business in a predominantly Black neighborhood.
The man encourages that because non Black businesses syphon income out of such communities preferring to invest in their own.
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#film #blackfilm #greatfilm #blacklivesstillmatter #blackmastodon
I just re-watched
Back to the Future released in 1985
for the first time in decades
and I enjoyed it :)
Alien vs. Predator released in 2004
Was it panned by (racist) sci fi fans simply because its protagonist was a Black Woman, Sanaa Lathan?
I'm revisiting films from 1999 and before
New Jack City released in 1991
I gave away all my vinyl to Oxfam. The volunteer who received them lay them flat which damages them; but kept
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#blackfilm #greatfilm #blackmusic #misogynoir #toxicmasculinity #incel #blackmastodon
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip released in 1982 available on the raging river
"Why did you kill everyone?"
"Because they were at home."
Boyz n the Hood released in 1991
The Black pig admits that he joined the pigs because of he hates his own [which for me is a pure house enslaved mentality, taking a role to gain favors when you oppress your own so you have to hate on your own to justify it in your own mind.]
https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/116884565081993515
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101507
#blackfilmm #greatfilm #gentrification #blackconsiousness #blackmastodon
The One and Only Dick Gregory released in 2021
Executive Producers: Kevin Hart and Lena Waithe
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#greatfilm #blackfilm #blackwomen #92percent #indigenous #martinlutherkingjr #muhammadali #michaeljacksonforever #elderly #alzheimers #billclinton #barackobama #blackmastodon
The Devil We Know released in 2018
In 1945, DuPont began making teflon.
Today, one of the chemicals used to make it is in the blood of 99% of all {USians].
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DuPont asked a farmer to allow them access to his water supply.
Fish cattle deer started dying.
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Reservoir Dogs released in 1992
Mr Pink argues against tips but Quentin Tarantino, whose wife is Black and whom I assume didn't know the origin of tips:
https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/117062382115304789
Shaft released in 2000 starring Samuel L. Jackson
"It's my duty to please that booty."
Richard Pryor: Icon released in 2014
Tracy Morgan: "And then Richard probably thought that he had to be like Bill [Cosby] to be in."
Todd Boyd:
"He's not, sort of, taking a strong political stand.
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#tv #MervGriffin #blacktv #greattv #blackfilm #greatfilm #blackmastodon
Dave released in 1993 starring a young Ving Rhames
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106673
Waiting for Barcelona released in 2018
about a young undocumented unhoused married Black Man.
The pigs are very aggressive and treat them like animals!!!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8126068
H Is for Harry released in 2018
A coming of age story about Harry, a charismatic 11-year old boy, who arrives at secondary school in suburban London unable to read or write. With the help of Sophie, his extremely dedicated teacher, can he overcome the illiteracy ingrained across generations of his family?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7341388/?ref_=mv_close
#film #greatfilm #workingclass #autism #mentalhealth #unhoused #literacy
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story released in 1993
A Chinese Historian describes how white Americans used to put Chinese People in a basket with dynamite to clear the way for the railroad and then pull the basket back up too slowly so that the Chinese
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