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LGM Film Club, Part 413: The Verdict

By Erik Loomis

In General

On September 23, 2024

By Orginal: Chris Potter - Modifier: Ibrahim.ID - 3D Judges Gavel, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38753690 Somehow I had never seen Sidney Lumet's 1982 film The Verdict. So I took care of that problem. It's pretty damn good, as I am sure many of you know....

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LGM Film Club, Part 352: Glengarry Glen Ross

By Erik Loomis

On February 28, 2023

Sometimes, you don't watch an iconic film for years. Then you watch it again. And you remember that if anything, it was even more awesome than you remembered. This really.

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“Propagandistic writing of this kind can be even more boring than it is irritating.”

By Scott Lemieux

On June 20, 2011

I will say this for Hitch; when he gets something in his wheelhouse, he can still nail it. The most salient thing about profiles of Mamet's "courageous" conversion to wingnuttery.

Interesting Choice

By Scott Lemieux

In Uncategorized

On August 14, 2009

A new picture based on the Diary of Anne Frank will be written and directed by David Mamet. Roy gets a set of steak knives for getting us an advance script excerpt....