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Felix Gonzalez Jr.

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Biography:

Born in Waco, Texas, I have always had a love for movies. The earliest films I remember seeing are "Grease" and "Grease 2." I was taken to a movie theater for the first time at the age of 9 (I was a late bloomer!). It was the summer of 1993, and the film was "Jurassic Park." I saw dinosaurs. I did not develop my true passion for movies until the age of 13. It was all due to one film. "Citizen Kane," perhaps? No. "City Lights"? Hardly. "It's a Wonderful Life"? I don't think so. No, it was actually the fantabulous, 1956 camp classic B-thriller "The Bad Seed." Through this movie, I was introduced to the wonders of filmdom, and I have never looked back. Throughout high school, I watched as many movies as I could, from classical Hollywood movies to silent cinema to foreign films. I acquired a basic, but promising, cinema vocabulary and a deep interest in flim analysis. I graduated from Baylor University in 2006 with a Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications and a minor in English. I am currently a graduate student in the Communications Department at Baylor. I have been a reviewer for DVDReview.com since May 2006.

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Favorites:

(In alphabetical order) 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 2. 3 Women (1977) 3. 8½ (1963) 4. Ace in the Hole (1951) 5. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) 6. Alice (1988) 7. All About Eve (1950) 8. Annie Hall (1977) 9. Apocalypse Now (1979) 10. The Awful Truth (1937) 11. Bambi (1942) 12. Battleship Potemkin (1925) 13. Beauty and the Beast (1946) 14. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 15. Bicycle Thieves (1948) 16. The Big Sleep (1946) 17. Black Narcissus (1947) 18. Blade Runner (1982) 19. Blowup (1966) 20. Blue Velvet (1986) 21. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 22. Brazil (1985) 23. Breathless (1960) 24. Bringing Up Baby (1938) 25. Casablanca (1942) 26. Cat People (1942) 27. Cinema Paradiso (1989) 28. Citizen Kane (1941) 29. City Lights (1931) 30. The Conversation (1974) 31. The Crying Game (1992) 32. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) 33. Do the Right Thing (1989) 34. Dr. Strangelove (1964) 35. Double Indemnity (1944) 36. Duck Soup (1933) 37. The Exterminating Angel (1962) 38. Fahrenheit 451 (1966) 39. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) 40. Forbidden Games (1952) 41. Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein (1931, 1935) 42. The General (1927) 43. The Godfather Parts I and II (1972, 1974) 44. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) 45. The Graduate (1967) 46. Great Expectations (1946) 47. His Girl Friday (1940) 48. Imitation of Life (1959) 49. In a Lonely Place (1950) 50. Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II (1944, 1958) 51. Jules and Jim (1962) 52. The Kid (1921) 53. King Kong (1933) 54. Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986) 55. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) 56. The Man with a Movie Camera (1929) 57. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 58. Metropolis (1927) 59. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944) 60. The Misfits (1961) 61. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) 62. Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) 63. Mulholland Dr. (2001) 64. My Darling Clementine (1946) 65. Nashville (1975) 66. The Night of the Hunter (1955) 67. Nosferatu (1922) 68. Notorious (1946) 69. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 70. Ordet (1955) 71. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 72. Persona (1966) 73. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) 74. Pinocchio (1940) 75. The Producers (1968) 76. Psycho (1960) 77. Pulp Fiction (1994) 78. The Red Shoes (1948) 79. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) 80. The Seventh Seal (1957) 81. Sherlock, Jr. (1924) 82. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 83. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) 84. Spirited Away (2001) 85. Strangers on a Train (1951) 86. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 87. Sullivan’s Travels (1941) 88. Sunrise (1927) 89. Sunset Blvd. (1950) 90. Taxi Driver (1976) 91. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) 92. The Third Man (1949) 93. Throne of Blood (1957) 94. Trouble in Paradise (1932) 95. Vampyr (1932) 96. Vertigo (1958) 97. The Wind (1928) 98. Wings of Desire (1987) 99. The Wizard of Oz (1939) 100. Written on the Wind (1956)

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Tracks (1976) 50% EDIT “Jaglom seems unable to decide whether he wants it to be a character mosaic or a psychological nightmare ...” – DVD Review Feb 15, 2017 Full Review Spread (2009) 22% EDIT “Ashton Kutcher is unwilling (or unable) to make himself the object of the same judgmental lens through which he has "Punk'd" other celebrities.” – DVD Review Nov 23, 2009 Full Review Brüno (2009) 68% EDIT “For all of its button-pushing, the end result is almost as superficial as its egocentric hero.” – DVD Review Nov 16, 2009 Full Review Two Girls and a Guy (1997) 51% EDIT “As a serio-comedy, it only half succeeds. The laughs are well earned, but the attempts at serious romantic analysis fall short of poignancy.” – DVD Review Nov 10, 2009 Full Review Fire and Ice (1983) 67% EDIT “Its ambiguously gay villain notwithstanding, Fire and Ice just doesn't hold the weight, either visually or thematically, that its creators probably hoped it would.” – DVD Review Oct 29, 2009 Full Review Camille (2008) EDIT “The only people who might enjoy it are necrophiliacs--or masochists. Either way, they have issues.” – DVD Review Oct 16, 2009 Full Review EDIT “If you can forgive the occasional convolution, you may find something to enjoy here.” – DVD Review Oct 7, 2009 Full Review Surveillance (2008) 55% EDIT “It is staggering to think that a film could be so horrifically nihilistic and so painfully boring at the same time, but Lynch has done it.” – DVD Review Sep 30, 2009 Full Review Fighting (2009) 39% EDIT “Fighting consistently feels like a patchwork of better movies without their excitement or rooting interest in character.” – DVD Review Sep 23, 2009 Full Review The Last House on the Left (2009) 42% EDIT “... superior [to the original] in that it makes clear the conflicting justification and degradation of the retaliation, establishing a grayer level of morality.” – DVD Review Sep 16, 2009 Full Review The Soloist (2009) 56% EDIT “When [Catherine] Keener's Mary Weston suggests that Lopez may be exploiting Ayers, it is tempting to wonder how the filmmakers would react to the same accusation.” – DVD Review Sep 11, 2009 Full Review Repulsion (1965) 96% EDIT “Repulsion wastes no time before plunging its audience into the frighteningly disturbed mindset of its central character.” – DVD Review Aug 5, 2009 Full Review Children of the Corn (1984) 36% EDIT “How Children of the Corn continues to be so successful and popular 25 years after its release still remains a mystery ....” – DVD Review Jul 30, 2009 Full Review I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007) 15% EDIT “What truly makes [the film] so detestable is its disingenuous attempt to justify itself with a tacked-on call for acceptance of all people and lifestyles.” – DVD Review Jul 15, 2009 Full Review EDIT “... King betrays his own objective to make a classical thriller and succumbs to the standard triteness of direct-to-DVD schlock.” – DVD Review Jul 6, 2009 Full Review Fast Company (1979) 89% EDIT “There is nothing particularly memorable about Fast Company, even at the most superficial level.” – DVD Review Jun 29, 2009 Full Review Inside Man (2006) 86% EDIT “... remains consistently watchable as a mechanical exercise.” – DVD Review Jun 19, 2009 Full Review Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 98% EDIT “... like a morbidly sick Looney Tunes short with its cartoon heroes struggling impotently to keep hold of a hot potato.” – DVD Review Jun 16, 2009 Full Review Revolutionary Road (2008) 67% EDIT “It plays like Douglas Sirk without the irony.” – DVD Review Jun 3, 2009 Full Review The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) 38% EDIT “It reaches a level of mediocrity that leaves the previous entries in the dust ....” – DVD Review May 12, 2009 Full Review 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) 37% EDIT “The philosophy here is when you can't make high art, make high trash.” – DVD Review May 12, 2009 Full Review The Fast and the Furious (2001) 55% EDIT “... when characters are not racing at breakneck speed, the movie as a whole ceases to move.” – DVD Review May 12, 2009 Full Review 8 Mile (2002) 76% EDIT “... Rocky with a rap beat ....” – DVD Review Apr 13, 2009 Full Review Quantum of Solace (2008) 63% EDIT “If only [Bond] had a villain as self-reflective as Heath Ledger's Joker to ask 'Why so serious?'” – DVD Review Mar 31, 2009 Full Review Pinocchio (1940) 100% EDIT “Pinocchio is above all a cautionary story of the dangers that lurk beyond the comforting arms of the family.” – DVD Review Mar 20, 2009 Full Review
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