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blind spot series 1939, 2014 blindspot, a fistful of films, abstew, blindspot, brittani burnham, dan heaton, flix chatter, geer garson, goodbye mr. chips, half a film student, heart of cinema, hitchcock's world, inspired ground, jay cluitt, john hitchcock, karamel kinema, life vs film], movies and songs 365, niall mcardle, public transportation snob, raging fluff, robert donat, sam wood, sean kelly, shantanu ghumare, silver emulsion, silver screen sessions, sk on movies, surrender to the void, terry kilburn, the cinematic spectacle, the film's the thing, u me and film, will kouf

Blindsided by GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS

School’s out for summer, but some teachers will stay with us forever.

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Ryan McNeil

blind spot series 1989, 2014 blindspot, a fistful of films, a space blogyssey, abstew, amir soltani, amiresque, andina, being norma jean, big screen small words, bob turnbull, brittani burnham, canadian, christian bordea, cinema axis, classicblanca, courtney small, dan heaton, dani eide, eternal sunshine of the logical mind, films and coke, flix chatter, heart of cinema, inspired ground, jay cluitt, jesus of montreal, life vs film], lime reviews and strawberry confessions, mette kowalski, movies and songs 365, nikhat zahra, perspective of a writer, public transportation snob, rambling film, rich watson, sean kelly, shantanu ghumare, sk on movies, steven flores, surrender to the void, the film's the thing, to the movies and back, u me and film, wide screen world

Blindsided by JESUS OF MONTREAL

Peace be with you: A reading from The Gospel according to Saint Denys…

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Ryan McNeil

blind spot series 1971, 2014 blindspot, a space blogyssey, amir soltani, amiresque, andina, andrew robinson, being norma jean, blaxploitation, brittani burnham, charles cioffi, christian bordea, christopher st. john, cinema axis, classicblanca, courtney small, films and coke, fistful of cinema, flix chatter, getter trumsi, gman reviews, gwenn mitchell, heart of cinema, inspired ground, jandy hardesty, lime reviews and strawberry confessions, mette kowalski, mettel ray, moses gunn, movies and songs 365, nikhat zahra, perspective of a writer, rambling film, richard roundtree, row three, SDG, sean kelly, shaft, silver emulsion, sk on movies, steve flores, surrender to the void, the film's the thing, to the movies and back, u me and, will kouf

Blindsided by SHAFT

February 25, 2014

I was ill-equipped to hold court with black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks. So for once, I asked for guidance.

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Ryan McNeil

blind spot series 1963, 2014 blindspot, a space blogyssey, amir soltani, amiresque, andina, andrew robinson, andrew stewart, audrey hepburn, being norma jean, blindspot, bob turnbull, cary grant, charade, cinema axis, classicblanca, courtney small, dan heaton, eternal sunshine of the logical mind, films and coke, fistful of cinema, flix chatter, george kennedy, gman reviews, heart of cinema, james coburn, jay cluitt, kate bradford, kate has a blog, life vs film], lime reviews, mette kowalski, nikhat zahra, public transportation snob, SDG, sean kelly, shantu, sk on movies, stanley donen, steven flores, surrender to the void, the drama llama, the film's the thing, walter matthau, will kouf

Blindsided by CHARADE

January 28, 2014

It was bound to happen eventually: The realization that I wasn’t as blind as I thought. But what would that mean for the first watch of this classic?

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Ryan McNeil

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