Citizen K

1/2/2020

_**Factually comprehensive but suffers from an over-idealisation of its subject**_ >_I am not hiding and I don't plan to become a political émigré. If it's a choice of forcing me out of the country or putting me in gaol, then they'll have to put me in gaol._ - Mikhail Khodorkovsky (July 3, 2003) As superficially entertaining a show as it was, _Sons of Anarchy_ always had one especially egregious flaw – no matter who opposed the titular biker gang, the show went out of its way to paint them as utterly corrupt and/or amoral, and so compared to them, the bikers (who just so happen to deal illegal guns) don't seem so bad. From Ernest Darby (neo-Nazi) to Joshua Kohn (obsessed stalker) to Ethan Zobelle (white separatist) to June Stahl (murderous lesbian) to Jimmy O'Phelan (murderous Iri

3/3/2020

'Citizen K' makes an interesting companion piece to Herzog's 'Meeting Gorbachev', which captured the promise of 1989 and mourned what came next. Gibney's documentary is essential viewing for anyone needing a history lesson about Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union, wants a frontline report on the current geopolitical landscape in Europe - including Ukraine - or just wants to know what it takes to bring down a towering political figure. - Jake Watt Read Jake's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-citizen-k-the-rapid-rise-and-thunderous-fall-of-a-russian-oligarch

5/19/2020

Western propaganda from the pen of a smug self-made man who tries to mitigate his moral failings.