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The Third Man – Film Review Friday
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The Third Man – Film Review Friday

May 9, 2025May 9, 2025 Daniel Fagan

The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed   “Don’t be so gloomy. After all, it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy

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Alida Valli, Anton Karas, Carol Reed, Film, film review, Film Review Friday, Graham Greene, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard
All The President’s Men – Film Review Fridays
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All The President’s Men – Film Review Fridays

April 11, 2025April 11, 2025 Daniel Fagan

“You know the results of the latest Gallup Poll? Half the country never even heard of the word Watergate. Nobody gives a shit. You

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1970s Cinema, Alan J. Pakula, All The President's Men, Dustin Hoffman, Film, Film Review Fridays, Journalism, Leadership, Richard Nixon, Robert Redford, Washington D.C., Watergate, William Goldman
Top Secret! – Film Review Friday
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Top Secret! – Film Review Friday

April 4, 2025 Daniel Fagan

“I know a little German. He’s sitting over there.” There is no film with a denser joke per second ratio than Zucker, Abrahams, and

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David Zucker, Film, film review, Film Review Friday, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Val Kilmer, ZAZ
When We Were Kings – Film Review Friday
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When We Were Kings – Film Review Friday

March 28, 2025 Daniel Fagan

“I done wrestled with an alligator. That’s right. I have wrestled with an alligator. I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning,

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Film, film review, Film Review Friday, George Foreman, Leon Gast, Muhammad Ali
Gene Hackman: A Retrospective on the Greatest – A Film Review Friday Special Presentation
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Gene Hackman: A Retrospective on the Greatest – A Film Review Friday Special Presentation

March 7, 2025 Daniel Fagan

“You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, ‘Why didn’t I choose something

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Film, film review, Film Review Friday, Gene Hackman, heist, Mississipi Burning, The French Connection, The Quick And The Dead, The Royal Tenenbaums, Young Frankenstein
Unbreakable – Film Review Fridays
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Unbreakable – Film Review Fridays

February 14, 2025 Daniel Fagan

“I’ve studied the form of comics intimately. I’ve spent a third of my life in a hospital bed… with nothing else to do but

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Bruce Willis, Eduardo Serra, Film, film review, Film Review Friday, James Newton Howard, Joanna Johnston, M Night Shyamalan, Robin Wright, Samuel L Jackson, Spencer Treat Clark
Contact – Film Review Fridays
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Contact – Film Review Fridays

January 10, 2025January 10, 2025 Daniel Fagan

Contact (1997) dir. Robert Zemeckis   “I’ll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It’s bigger

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Contact, Film, film review, Film Review Friday, Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Zemeckis
The Film Diaries: The Final 9 – Film Review Fridays
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The Film Diaries: The Final 9 – Film Review Fridays

December 27, 2024December 27, 2024 Daniel Fagan

About a week ago, Daniel propositioned Film Review Fridays with its most ambitious publication yet: a final 9 mini-reviews to cap off the year.

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Ace In The Hole, Argylle, Beavis and Butt-Head, Film, film review, Film Review Fridays, Head On, Hearts Of Darkness, Interstella 5555, La Chimera, Three Months, True Grit
Das Boot – Film Review Fridays
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Das Boot – Film Review Fridays

October 11, 2024October 16, 2024 Daniel Fagan

Das Boot (1981) dir. Wolfgang Petersen   “They made us all train for this day. ‘To be fearless and proud and alone. To need

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Erwin Leder, Film, film review, Film Review Friday, Herbert Gronemeyer, Hubertus Bengsch, Jurgen Prochnow, Klaus Wennemann, Wolfgang Petersen
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