Gil

Gil

Favorite films

  • The Magnificent Ambersons
  • Dead of Night
  • Kiss of Death
  • Brief Encounter

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  • Greenland

    ★★★½

  • Clash by Night

    ★★★½

  • Blackwell's Island

    ★★★

  • Sinister

    ★★★

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  • Greenland

    Greenland

    ★★★½

    Constant action in this well made apocalypse picture. Excellent character development. This was my 2nd viewing.

    A family fights for survival as a planet-killing comet races toward Earth. John Garrity (Gerard Butler), his estranged wife Allison (Morena Baccarin), and young son Nathan make a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary. Amid terrifying news accounts of cities around the world being leveled by the comet's fragments, the Garritys experience the best and worst in humanity while they battle the…

  • Clash by Night

    Clash by Night

    ★★★½

    This picture remains difficult for me to enjoy. It's a fine Film Noir - and has an early Marilyn Monroe roll.

    Huggo chimed in on this one too...
    Without warning to anyone at her destination, Mae Doyle, having been east for ten years, returns home to the fishing community of Monterey, California to regroup in a sudden change in fortune having to do with her married politician lover having passed away and thus time away unfulfilled in her goal of…

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  • South Park: Joining the Panderverse

    South Park: Joining the Panderverse

    ★★★★½

    Once again South Park tackles modern social problrms - head on - with no fear of offending anyone. Excellent!

    The end of Cartman's familiar and beloved life is predicted by his incredibly unsettling dreams. As the arrival of AI is upending their society, the grownups in South Park are also struggling with their own personal decisions.

  • Witness to Murder

    Witness to Murder

    ★★★

    6.3 not even the great cinematography of John Alton can make this more than a mediocre picture. The villain is a "former" Nazi, who is gaslighting Barbara Stanwick, who saw him murder a woman, but of course nobody believes her. The movie is frustrating at times and just kind of uncomfortable. I love Barbara Stanwyck young so much in the from 1930 to 1950 or whenever - it’s harder to see her older - but that’s just me. The fact…

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