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Review of Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist (2005)

By Gordon/The Mad Artist (35) on 07 Dec 2008

I really love both versions of the Exorcist prequel…

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Review of Wings of Desire (1987)

By Gordon/The Mad Artist (35) on 22 Nov 2008

One of the great films, and you're doing yourself an injustice if you stay away because of subtitles…

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Review of The Squid and the Whale (2005)

By Gordon/The Mad Artist (35) on 19 Nov 2008

The squid and the Whale features the quintessentially fucked up intellectual new yorker family in the midst of a tumultuous divorce…

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Review of 3 Women (1977)

By Gordon/The Mad Artist (35) on 14 Nov 2008

My first impression was a a poor man's Persona... I liked Willie's paintings…

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Review of Bringing Up Baby (1938)

By Gordon/The Mad Artist (35) on 08 Nov 2008

The best of all the Hepburn/Grant movies (others were SYLVIA SCARLETT, HOLIDAY, and THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, by the way) and it's probably the…

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Review of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

By Gordon/The Mad Artist (35) on 07 Nov 2008

Great allegorical tale on human greed, with crazed work from Bogie and one of the great supporting actor turns by a grubby Walter Huston…

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Review of The Verdict (1982)

By Gordon/The Mad Artist (35) on 07 Nov 2008

Works both as a thriller and a great courtroom drama…

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Review of Three Kings (2011)

By Gordon/The Mad Artist (35) on 17 Oct 2008

Effective dark comedy, and the greatest use of Chicago's If You Leave Me Now ever…

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Review of The Night of the Hunter (1955)

By Gordon/The Mad Artist (35) on 17 Oct 2008

Great suspense film with maybe the best use of children in danger in cinema, and perhaps Robert Mitchum's best performance…

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Review of We Were Soldiers (2002)

By Gordon/The Mad Artist (35) on 17 Oct 2008

Good performances by Mel Gibson and Barry Pepper generally counteract a schmaltzy account of a true story…

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Review of The Hustler (1961)

By Gordon/The Mad Artist (35) on 17 Oct 2008

Part of Paul Newman's excellent run of 60's films and probably the best of them. One of cinema's most profound character studies…

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Review of Three Kings (1999)

By Gordon/The Mad Artist (35) on 17 Oct 2008

Effective dark comedy, and the greatest use of Chicago's If You Leave Me Now ever…

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Review of Ran (1985)

By Gordon/The Mad Artist (35) on 05 Sep 2008

Interesting that it took Japanese film master Kurosawa to make the best screen version of KING LEAR, transforming it into a samurai epic…

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Review of Key Largo (1948)

By Gordon/The Mad Artist (35) on 02 Sep 2008

An absolute blast of a film. If you love film noir, check it out. And Edward G…

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Review of Changing Lanes (2002)

By Gordon/The Mad Artist (35) on 29 Aug 2008

An Oscar nominated screenplay by Michael Tolkin and Ben Affleck's best screen performance to date (Jackson is his usual solid self) are just…

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