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Derek Smith

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Biography:

I am 26 years old and a recent college graduate working/living in San Diego. I have always loved movies, but the obsession took over about 5 years ago. Aside from movies, I enjoy reading, sports, and hanging out with friends.

Favorites:

http://www.cinematicreflections.com/Masterpieces.html

Location:

San Diego

Official Website:

http://www.apolloguide.com

Reviews

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Juichinin no Samurai (1967) EDIT “Released between 1963 and 1967, and each based on true events, the three films in Kudō Eiichi’s Samurai Revolution Trilogy follow honorable samurai on missions to assassinate corrupt lords and political leaders.” – Slant Magazine Mar 25, 2026 Full Review The Great Killing (1964) EDIT “Released between 1963 and 1967, and each based on true events, the three films in Kudō Eiichi’s Samurai Revolution Trilogy follow honorable samurai on missions to assassinate corrupt lords and political leaders.” – Slant Magazine Mar 25, 2026 Full Review 13 Assassins (1963) EDIT “Released between 1963 and 1967, and each based on true events, the three films in Kudō Eiichi’s Samurai Revolution Trilogy follow honorable samurai on missions to assassinate corrupt lords and political leaders.” – Slant Magazine Mar 25, 2026 Full Review A Man and a Woman (1966) 75% EDIT “Claude Lelouch’s Palme d’Or-winning A Man and a Woman from 1966 treasures mood above all else. ” – Slant Magazine Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Reminders of Him (2026) 55% 1.5/4 EDIT “Vanessa Caswill’s film feels reverse engineered to maximize emotional impact.” – Slant Magazine Mar 11, 2026 Full Review The Big Risk (1960) 100% EDIT “Classe Tous Risques takes as its subject the masculine codes of honor that are upheld and broken by those who dare to live outside the law.” – Slant Magazine Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Krakatit (1948) EDIT “Otakar Vávra’s deeply strange and unsettling sci-fi mystery about a world hellbent on self-destruction rings as true today as it surely did in the wake of World War II.” – Slant Magazine Mar 3, 2026 Full Review Ghost Elephants (2025) 100% 2.5/4 EDIT “Ghost Elephants shows that Werner Herzog is fiercely determined to explore new frontiers while they still exist and capture the poetic phenomena of nature and the unshakeable dreams it continues to instill in mankind.” – Slant Magazine Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Network (1976) 91% EDIT “Half a century later, Sidney Lumet’s Network remains a darkly humorous and relevant treatise on capitalism’s erosion of morality.” – Slant Magazine Feb 13, 2026 Full Review A Woman Under the Influence (1974) 88% EDIT “John Cassavetes’s films were born out of emotional truth. ” – Slant Magazine Feb 8, 2026 Full Review My Father's Shadow (2025) 97% EDIT “Hope and fear are inextricably bound in Akinola Davies Jr.’s semi-autobiographical film.” – Slant Magazine Feb 7, 2026 Full Review To Hold a Mountain (2026) 100% 3/4 EDIT “The documentary ultimately reveals itself as a paean to female strength and resistance. ” – Slant Magazine Jan 26, 2026 Full Review House Party (1990) 94% EDIT “There are elements here that are best left in the ’90s, but its joyful, nuanced portrait of Black teenage experience has aged quite nicely. ” – Slant Magazine Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 48% 2/4 EDIT “Greenland 2 plays out as a much more generic thriller than its predecessor.” – Slant Magazine Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) 80% 2.5/4 EDIT “Beyond the delightfully madcap, swashbuckling adventure taking full advantage of the animators’ creative dexterity, the film is dotted with the whacky humor and ingenious puns that fans of the series have some to expect.” – Slant Magazine Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 77% 2/4 EDIT “Song Sung Blue is content to pendulum-swing from triumph to tragedy and back again with all the self-control of a drunk driver.” – Slant Magazine Dec 14, 2025 Full Review Salaam Bombay! (1988) 93% EDIT “Mira Nair brings a documentarian’s sensibility to her texturally rich narrative feature debut” – Slant Magazine Dec 12, 2025 Full Review The House with Laughing Windows (1976) EDIT “Pupi Avati’s criminally underseen giallo from 1976 brims with enigmatic dread.” – Slant Magazine Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Zootopia 2 provides plenty of food for thought for its young audience, making a more expansive statement on the dangers of intolerance than the first film, and without sacrificing any of its charm, humor, or visual ingenuity along the way.” – Slant Magazine Nov 25, 2025 Full Review The Taste of Violence (1961) EDIT “The austerity that Hossein was prone to as an artist serves The Taste of Violence well.” – Slant Magazine Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Nude in a White Car (1960) EDIT “Pity that the film’s dry, self-serious tone only brings a certain leadenness to the proceedings.” – Slant Magazine Nov 20, 2025 Full Review The Wicked Go to Hell (1956) EDIT “The Wicked Go to Hell is marked by its lean, efficient narrative and stark visual style.” – Slant Magazine Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Burden of Dreams (1982) 92% EDIT “Burden of Dreams attests to Les Blank’s egalitarian approach to documentation.” – Slant Magazine Nov 16, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 61% 1.5/4 EDIT “As with its predecessors, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is completely uninterested in convincing its audience that any of the Four Horsemen’s bombastic tricks could ever be accomplished by any actual human being. ” – Slant Magazine Nov 11, 2025 Full Review The Fiend of Athens (1956) EDIT “The film is a potent and relevant portrait of the manly art of self-delusion.” – Slant Magazine Nov 6, 2025 Full Review
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