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Gavin Schmitt’s stats: Highest Rated Decade for Film Based on my Letterboxd stats, I rated the 1920s the highest on average, followed by the 1910s and 1930s. We can make a broad observation from this: clearly I prefer older film, maybe even things 100 years old or more! Perhaps not surprising for someone who works […]
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Over 20 Years on IMDB, Gavin6942 is now on Letterboxd I’ve been using IMDB since June 2001, and have rated 8,565 films with 6,335 of those ratings including written reviews. That’s a lot of ratings, and even though many of my movie nerd friends were moving over to Letterboxd, I chose not to as I
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Top Movies: Rated 10/10 by Gavin As of this post, I have rated well over 7,000 movies. Out of those ratings, 37 have been given a perfect score: Movie(link to Letterboxd) Year Genre(s) Director 1 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Crime, Sci-Fi Stanley Kubrick 2 Adaptation. 2002 Comedy, Drama Spike Jonze 3 Amélie 2001 Comedy, Romance
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An Unquiet Grave (2020) Overview: A year after the death of his wife, a man (Jacob A. Ware) enlists his wife’s sister (Christine Nyland) to help him bring her back.Director: Terence KreyWriters: Christine Nyland, Terence KreyStarring: Jacob A. Ware, Christine Nyland Related post: Interview: Christine Nyland Gavin’s Review Does the plot summary of AN UNQUIET GRAVE (affiliate
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Lapsis (2020) Gavin’s Lapsis Movie Review Presented as “science fiction,” the world of LAPSIS (affiliate link)is barely different from the real world of 2020 (minus the pandemic) and offers a scathing critique of the gig economy and the growing number of independent contractors. Now, this is something I can relate to. I formerly worked “with”
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Rose Plays Julie Gavin’s Rose Plays Julie Review From the literature: “Directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, also known as Desperate Optimists, have spent years making formally rigorous, atmospheric cinema that often deals with the uncanny effects of impersonation and the slippery nature of truth. With ROSE PLAYS JULIE (2019) (affiliate link) they have crafted
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Dinner in America, Directed by Adam Rehmeier Gavin’s Dinner in America Review The creator behind this film is Adam Rehmeier, who first received attention around 2010-2011 with THE BUNNY GAME. In that film, a trucker kidnaps a prostitute and subjects her to what is politely referred to as “extreme torture.” Even for horror fans (such
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Frank and Zed Review Overview: Two reanimated corpses, dependent on each other for survival, live a life of solitude until a power-hungry magistrate tricks a group of villagers into attacking their lonely castle, fulfilling an ancient prophecy: The Orgy of Blood. “I don’t know why I keep showing up to work when I know we’re
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Darkness Movie Review Stella (Denise Tantucci), a young girl, lives with her father (Valerio Binasco) and two little sisters in an isolated house with bolted windows. Because of an alleged “solar explosion” that occurred years before, the father is the only one able to leave the house. But his version of the truth seems to
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Survival Skills Movie Review Survival Skills is a lost training video from the late 1980s. In it, Jim (Vayu O’Donnell, CELL), the perfect policeman, gets in over his head when he tries to resolve a domestic violence case outside the law. Before getting in the film as a whole, it must be said that Stacy
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