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Review of Taxi Driver (1976)

By Louise D (267) on 02 Oct 2013

Justly classic portrayal of dysfunctional character and city…

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Review of Reality (2012)

By Louise D (267) on 26 Aug 2013

Interesting parable about the overlapping place of religious worship and celebrity worship, and further drawing parallels between belief and…

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Review of Reality+ (2014)

By Louise D (267) on 26 Aug 2013

Interesting parable about the overlapping place of religious worship and celebrity worship, and further drawing parallels between belief and…

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Review of Reality (2015)

By Louise D (267) on 26 Aug 2013

Interesting parable about the overlapping place of religious worship and celebrity worship, and further drawing parallels between belief and…

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Review of How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

By Louise D (267) on 16 Aug 2013

Was hoping this might be proto-feminist, from a time when marrying money really was the best a woman could hope for. It's not. Some good jokes though…

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Review of Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)

By Louise D (267) on 06 Aug 2013

Liked the first two thirds about the birth of street art better; the Mister Brainwash satire-fake was rather on the nose…

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Review of Top Secret! (1984)

By Louise D (267) on 19 Jul 2013

Not as successful as Airplane or Naked Gun but some good jokes…

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Review of Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

By Louise D (267) on 16 Jun 2013

Last year, when I watched all the Best Picture Oscar nominees, I was completely annoyed by the nonsense that was The Tree of Life…

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Review of Monsters, Inc. (2001)

By Louise D (267) on 01 Jun 2013

Fell asleep the first time Blame it on Job Have to re watch it…

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Review of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

By Louise D (267) on 19 May 2013

Something of a bizarre paean to petite bourgeois, credit-driven capitalism, leavened with the considerable charm of its leads…

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Review of In Bruges (2008)

By Louise D (267) on 12 May 2013

Impressed with this. An effective ramp from black comedy to Greek tragedy, with great performances. Good use of location, well shot…

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Review of The Kids Are All Right (2010)

By Louise D (267) on 29 Apr 2013

Classy melodrama, but melodrama all the same…

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Review of Jackpot (2012)

By Louise D (267) on 13 Apr 2013

Entertaining but slight tale of idiots acting like idiots…

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Review of Bringing Up Baby (1938)

By Louise D (267) on 09 Apr 2013

Cary Grant (in a pair of glasses) plays a milquetoast nerdy-nerd scientist who's been assembling pieces of a dinosaur skeleton for years…

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Review of My Favorite Wife (1940)

By Louise D (267) on 27 Mar 2013

Not one of the classic screwballs, but some good goofing around and pleasingly self-assured leading lady…

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Review of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

By Louise D (267) on 15 Mar 2013

Just a gut-wrenching story where everyone is pathetic or horrible or both. Few are redeemed…

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Review of The Maltese Falcon (1941)

By Louise D (267) on 03 Mar 2013

Looks fabulous. Bogie charismatic. Plot so relentless you get past caring a bit but that's not the point…

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Review of Brick (2006)

By Louise D (267) on 17 Feb 2013

This knocked my socks off when I saw it at the cinema and half a dozen watches later it is still thrilling…

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Review of Melancholia (2011)

By Louise D (267) on 13 Feb 2013

The planetary allegory didn't work for me, and without that this is a rather silly and unsympathetic film about depression…

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Review of On the Town (1949)

By Louise D (267) on 12 Feb 2013

Often mentioned in the breath as Singin' in the Rain but this is a poor second in my opinion, lacking the post-modern comment on the medium,…

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