G.W. Gibson

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Favorite films

  • Barry Lyndon
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • The Cranes Are Flying
  • Wheels on Meals

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Eraserhead

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    Missed the last 10 minites due to power outage.

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    Soderberg just keeps chugging along, with quality work at every turn. A great cast that is only let down by Regé-Jean Page. The quiet spy film is always the better baseline that the big cousin, and here we get great actors enjoying the cance to hear beautiful clothes and talk in hushed voices. Fassbender is doing his best George Smiley and it works. He is tasked with outing a rogue amongst his fellow MI6, with his wife as the prime…

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  • The French Connection

    The French Connection

    ★★★★

    Hackman deserved Best Actor, but I'm puzzled that this landed Best Picture. The film is great, all cat & mouse, trash era NYC, and character building. Popeye Doyle is a loathsome brute: beating suspects, picking-up teenagers, waking up at bars, and shooting FBI men. A racist dog who only perks up at the whiffs of a hot case. He finds one by tailing a new money Italo-type all through the night (off hours). Balanced slightly by Roy Scheider's good cop, both…

  • Hard Boiled

    Hard Boiled

    ★★★★½

    35mm showing.

    What more can even be said. Slow-mo of Tequila and Tony crossing up each other in the halls. Babies on a escape rope. Slamming the drink on the bar before downing. Shotgun kills.