Reel Reviews | The Dark Knight
by Tim Gordon With the urgency of a bolt of lightning, director/screenwriter Christopher Nolan sets up the ultimate morality tale between vigilante justice
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Film Reviews
Reel Reviews | The Queen
by Tim Gordon Several years ago, Jamie Foxx donned a pair of dark shades and delivered one of the best performances ever captured
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Reel Reviews | The Hitcher
by Tim Gordon Let me say for the record that I’m not a big fan of horror films. In fact they’re probably my
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Reel Reviews | Stomp the Yard
by Tim Gordon Almost twenty years ago, Spike Lee introduced mainstream America to African-American life at a fictional historically black college. His film,
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Reel Reviews | Arthur and the Invisibles
by Tim Gordon Some years ago, I remember getting into a heated argument on a television show with a film colleague as we
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Reel Reviews | Alpha Dog
by Tim Gordon Thirty years ago in Animal House, Dean Wormer once told a student that “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way
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Reel Reviews | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Tim Gordon Last month, I was in the middle of cinematic “agony and ecstasy.” As president of the Washington Area Film Critics
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Reel Reviews | Freedom Writers
by Tim Gordon When you begin watching Freedom Writers a certain sense of déjà vu washes over you. You know the subject matter;
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