Josh Patron

Favorite films

  • Aftersun
  • Paris, Texas
  • Columbus
  • Waves

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  • Onibaba

    ★★★★★

  • Judas and the Black Messiah

    ★★★★½

  • The Life of Chuck

    ★★★★½

  • The Guilty

    ★★★

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No Other Land

2024

Watched

America deciding not to distribute this after giving them a crowning award adds to the problem. I understand to some degree as they don't want to find themselves at war with Israel even more than they already are but the awareness it would bring to the genocide would be immeasurable. Knowing that one of the directors was also kidnapped by Israeli's shows how heartless they truly are, taking land based on laws which existed before they were even born. It's…

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004

★★★★★ 1

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd"

Nietzsche's therapy of eternal recurrence involves the idea of having to live life over and over in an endless cycle of witnessing detail - pain and all. Seeing the faces we over and over in a turn

I'm a firm believer of the loneliest loneliness theory that Nietzsche created - which in…

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Onibaba

1964

★★★★★ 1

If you think that black & white can’t be beautiful well you are well mistaken. ONIBABA is one of the prettiest films of all time and it doesn’t use a single drop of colour

Judas and the Black Messiah

2021

★★★★½ Rewatched

A rare modern classic. Shame it was released hiring COVID because it is truly something special and deserved the big screen treatment

Shaka King with a debut says what he wants to say extremely loud, allowing Kaluuya & Stanfield the power ballad speeches and power moves needed to pull off the story of oppression. They weren’t terrorists - they were freedom fighters. Hampton was a fighter up until the very end

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Black Mirror: Loch Henry

2023

★★★ 1

God bless the Premiere Pro s

Turtles All the Way Down

2024

★★★ Watched

Anxiety disorders are the worst (trust me, I'd know) to the point where it's life consuming. Does this get what it means to have one? Almost

It's very YA but that's the charm of John Green's words. I don't vibe with YA adaptations but this one stuck with me for some reason