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Review of Educating Rita (1983)

By Gordon B (705) on 02 Nov 2012

Well-acted, well-written and a well-constructed mixture of comedy and drama, Educating Rita benefits strongly from the performances of Michael…

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Review of Wake in Fright (1971)

By Gordon B (705) on 02 Nov 2012

This sunbaked Australian thriller about a man trapped in the outback is one of the best movies about the rituals of manhood and the subtle…

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Review of The Beaver (2011)

By Gordon B (705) on 31 Oct 2012

Beaver is too somber to be good comedy, but its too silly to be good drama…

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Review of The Blood of a Poet (1932)

By Gordon B (705) on 09 Oct 2012

There's something inexplicable about this surrealist classic that makes it seem abstract yet feel completely alive…

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Review of Urbanized (2011)

By Gordon B (705) on 07 Oct 2012

A very nicely constructed documentary that touches on the issues of resource use, population, and city planning…

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Review of Vampyros Lesbos (1971)

By Gordon B (705) on 02 Oct 2012

It doesn't have the skill of a good Hammer horror film. It doesn't have the money shots of a good porn film…

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Review of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012)

By Gordon B (705) on 01 Oct 2012

Like the best Batman cartoons, this effort is bleak and surprisingly brutal, but if you want to see this story done right, you should seek…

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Review of Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)

By Gordon B (705) on 28 Sep 2012

This early effort from Brian DePalma has drugs, magic tricks, female nudity, and a Orson Wells cameo, now if it could only make a story appear…

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Review of The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

By Gordon B (705) on 26 Sep 2012

This 80's horror flick is not one of the greatest zombie films, but it has a healthy dose of tongue and cheek humor that keeps it from being…

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Review of Headhunters (2011)

By Gordon B (705) on 26 Sep 2012

The outhouse scene in SLUMDOG has nothing on this one…

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Review of Cosmopolis (2012)

By Gordon B (705) on 22 Sep 2012

It takes place in a guys car…

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Review of The Magnificent Butcher (1979)

By Gordon B (705) on 08 Sep 2012

If you like jump kicking, cross kicking, high kicking , and good old fashioned butt kicking, then this old school Kung Fu film is for you…

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Review of Tiny Furniture (2010)

By Gordon B (705) on 02 Sep 2012

Lena Dunham is a filmmaker to look out for…

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Review of Nashville (1975)

By Gordon B (705) on 29 Aug 2012

There are many words to describe Robert Altman's Nashville: Amazing. Spectacular. Wonderful. Entertaining…

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Review of The Puffy Chair (2006)

By Gordon B (705) on 20 Aug 2012

It's one of those harmless independent films that's about quirky thirty-something people, but it would 've been stronger if it had less quirks…

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Review of In the Loop (2009)

By Gordon B (705) on 17 Aug 2012

Extremely funny take on the political wrangling leading up to war in the middle east…

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Review of Blow Out (1981)

By Gordon B (705) on 08 Aug 2012

Every film geek's fantasy, and easily Brian DePalma's best film…

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Review of Kuroneko (1968)

By Gordon B (705) on 30 Jul 2012

This old school ghost story is an eerie and effective concoction that blends theatrical flare with Japanese folklore…

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Review of Meeting Evil (2012)

By Gordon B (705) on 28 Jul 2012

Sometimes Bad movies happen to good actors, sometimes horrible movies happen to so so actors... this is the latter…

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Review of The Box (2009)

By Gordon B (705) on 27 Jul 2012

The Box wasn't at all as good as I'd expected. It wasn't at all exciting, instead I found myself wanting it to end…

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