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Douglas Davidson

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Biography:

Douglas is a Matthews, NC-based writer who enjoys using his geekdom in the pursuit of understanding and analyzing film. He is the founder of film review site Elements of Madness, member of three critics groups, and co-host of podcast The Cine-Men.

Reviews

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Cookie Queens (2026) 4/5 EDIT “Charming and sweet without being saccharine, "Cookie Queens" is a surprisingly eye-opening experience as the curtain is pulled-back on a period that so many find delightful without realizing the toll it takes on the young sellers.” – Elements of Madness Jan 27, 2026 Full Review House Party (1990) 94% EDIT “Reevaluation not only affords new audiences to be born, it empowers old audiences to consider a work through a different lens.” – Elements of Madness Jan 27, 2026 Full Review King of Beggars (1992) EDIT “... features a big cast of established HK actors in roles big and small, incorporates multiple tones regardless of the overall tone of the project, features impressive stunt sequences, and incorporates the politics of the time.” – Elements of Madness Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Untitled Home Invasion Romance (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “... uses comedy, drama, and horror to examine the false perceptions of romance and what it really means to love someone fully.” – Elements of Madness Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Who Killed Alex Odeh? (2026) 4/5 EDIT “These are the seeds of hatred and their fruits are flourishing, which should enrage anyone who comes to realize it.” – Elements of Madness Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “... goopy, gory, and gunky — all the things that folks don’t talk about regarding pregnancy and the ways in which agency is often revoked from the pregnant by the sheer act of taking on a parasite.” – Elements of Madness Jan 24, 2026 Full Review In Cold Light (2025) 43% 3.5/5 EDIT “Frustration abounds at first, however, given space to sit with it, this does feel, to a degree, the intention of Giroux all along, to move us as he moves Ava toward a disquieting truth: to heal, we must first forgive ourselves.” – Elements of Madness Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% 3.5/5 EDIT “What Cooper effectively does do is remind those who forget that all of us come from somewhere and we carry that with us regardless of whether we’re a music legend or Joe Schmoe trying to get by ...” – Elements of Madness Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Dead Man (1995) 69% EDIT “... once more utilizing a collection of actors he’s worked with prior, is as fascinating a watch now as it was upon release between its anachronistic score from Nell Young (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), it’s dreamlike flow, and fatalistic energy.” – Elements of Madness Jan 19, 2026 Full Review On the Run (1988) EDIT “... a solid crime thriller whose ramping violence crescendos with exacting viciousness.” – Elements of Madness Jan 17, 2026 Full Review SHEEPDOG (2025) 77% 2.5/5 EDIT “Even when the performances from the main cast keep one engaged, the structure and execution of the narrative results in the audience feeling like the characters are hitting required manufactured beats ...” – Elements of Madness Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Night Patrol (2025) 59% 3.5/5 EDIT “... often cold and extremely cruel, is gearing up to advance into cinemas, bringing with it an agenda of violence from which none will remain unscathed.” – Elements of Madness Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds (2017) 70% EDIT “... comes across as mere preparation for "The Last 49 Days," thereby diminishing the connection to Ja-hong’s journey, which is setup as our focus.” – Elements of Madness Jan 12, 2026 Full Review The Old Woman with the Knife (2025) 93% 3.5/5 EDIT “... that it seeks to go deeper, to demonstrate the ripples caused by violence and how that stunts one’s ability to see beyond the cruelty one causes and one can cause.” – Elements of Madness Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Daniela Forever (2024) 65% 4/5 EDIT “... things get truly interesting as the expectation of the story and Vigalondo’s intention collide into something simultaneously whimsical and soul-crushingly dark.” – Elements of Madness Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 4/5 EDIT “By the time the end credits appear and silence fills the screen, Lanthimos makes the title (via its meaning) quite clear and provocative in the way audiences have come to expect.” – Elements of Madness Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) 69% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a fun escape from reality where the audience can go on a new journey with an old friend, smiling from ear-to-ear almost the entire time.” – Elements of Madness Jan 7, 2026 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% 3.5/5 EDIT “... follows in its predecessors’ footsteps by not only failing at the box office, but pushing the bounds of technological understanding through an exploration of human connection.” – Elements of Madness Jan 6, 2026 Full Review The Emperor's New Groove (2000) 86% EDIT “Even the most risk-averse, anxiety-possessing children can look at this film and giggle because the film takes Kuzco’s evolution seriously and nothing else, making all the dangerous obstacles and deadly plots farcical and hilarious.” – Elements of Madness Jan 5, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 86% 3.5/5 EDIT “While not as profound or conclusive as one may like, "We Bury the Dead" is, nevertheless, a surprisingly moving experience that reframes the zombie film into a different sort of horror story.” – Elements of Madness Dec 29, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% 4/5 EDIT “... a lot like life in its dueling contradictions — whimsical and grounded, full of wide-eyed wonder and heartbreaking realism – asking its audience to say "yes" and go on an adventure.” – Elements of Madness Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Frontier Crucible (2025) 2.5/5 EDIT “The film aspires to slowly raise tensions until they boil over, but things are too neat, too clean, and too predictable for the anticipated thrills to be found or felt.” – Elements of Madness Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “... a brand-new adventure with great-big implications for its audience as the youngsters confront the inevitability of growing up while being reminded that play is an active choice to be made.” – Elements of Madness Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Withdrawal (2025) 4/5 EDIT “... a horror show, inviting the audience to see an honest and raw depiction of two people in crisis desperate to change their futures but unable to recognize just how stuck they are.” – Elements of Madness Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Misfits (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “... as rough-and-tumble a tale as it is a production, yet, its lack of refinement is as much a feature for the experience as it is emblematic of the narrative itself.” – Elements of Madness Dec 21, 2025 Full Review
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