Paul Gilbert
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Paul Gilbert is a 23 year old recent graduate student of the University of Rhode Island from which he received a BA double major in history and film studies. Originally from Philadelphia. Paul now lives in Washington D.C. He first found his passion for film in VHS stores when he was younger and has been studying, examining, and analyzing film and the history of film ever since. Paul has a second interest in the world of comics, video games and books. He is an avid connoisseur and frequent attendee at Comic Con and Wizard World events at sites around the country. His interest in those particular genres stem from the ways in which popular culture utilizes a variety of medium to convey stories, ideas, and messages.

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Out of the Past: “Ace in the Hole” (1951)

After splitting with his writing partner, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder was let loose with little interference from the Hollywood studios to write and direct the uncompromisingly unsympathetic Ace in the Hole. In this follow-up to the wildly successful Sunset Boulevard,…

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Out of the Past: “The Maltese Falcon” (1941)

It is not made of gold or bedazzled by jewels; if you saw it in a pawn shop you wouldn’t give it a second glance. But, it is the stuff that dreams are made of and worth its weight in…

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Movie Review: “A Most Violent Year”

With slicked back hair, shadowy dealings, and 1981 New York City (statistically the city’s most crime-ridden year) as the film’s backdrop, one might expect J.C Chandor’s A Most Violent Year to be bloodier than a Quentin Tarantino movie on cocaine. Chandor’s…

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“Out of the Past” Series Introduction

If you were, per chance, to walk down the corridors of your mind you’d find pleasant memories of your youth and family get-togethers, but eventually the wrong turn would be made and you would end up in the darkest recesses…

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Why ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ is Better Than ‘Star Wars’

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars was unbeatable. It was the reigning champion of Hollywood cinema. George Lucas’s space opera was released on an unsuspecting audience in 1977 and captured the imagination and hearts of…

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The Film Canon: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

In 1964, a film examined the grim possibility of something going very wrong with America’s nuclear program. A group of bombers carrying nuclear weapons are accidentally given the GO-codes to drop their nuclear payload onto the Soviet Union. The President…

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The Man Who Never Was: The Paradoxes and Genius of Peter Sellers

“There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed.”                                                                 – Peter Sellers I remember it distinctly. “Come over I have a movie you gotta see,” my friend said, “It’s really funny.” I went over to his…