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40 Years of Death Wish 3: A Celebration
The Summer of 1985. While I was spending six weeks in Indiana with my maniacal grandmother, learning that yes, a 12-year-old…
Great Cocksmen of the American Presidency (Who Are Not Bill Clinton)
Finally, a list without Jimmy Carter.
A Few Ruthless Movie Villains
Here are A Few Ruthless Movie Villains. Villains have been part of movies since their inception. We love them, we love…
Commando
Homoeroticism? More than you could possibly imagine. I mean all the crap about Arnold being Der Gropin’fuhrer was just a rightwing-ruse…
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Three Guesses as To Why the Most Successful Movie Franchise is the Least Culturally Impactful: -or- Why Avatar Fire and Ash will make a lot of money and leave no legacy.
Read more: Three Guesses as To Why the Most Successful Movie Franchise is the Least Culturally Impactful: -or- Why Avatar Fire and Ash will make a lot of money and leave no legacy.I spent 3 and a half hours, over an eighth of my day, in a theater watching this. And less than an hour later the details are already running like water out of my mind and memory
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Kesey & The Cuckoo’s
Read more: Kesey & The Cuckoo’sI’m not sure why I’m such a fan of the sixties, but I am. Maybe it’s because I’ve lived a past life there that keeps haunting some subconscious part of my current being
THE ABC’s
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Movies That Foment Primal Fear (Part Six): Aliens -or- The ABC’s of Alien Movies
Read more: Movies That Foment Primal Fear (Part Six): Aliens -or- The ABC’s of Alien MoviesJules Verne provided us with the technology and the initial curiosity: “I wonder what’s out there? Let’s build a spaceship and find out!”
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The ABC’s of Traveling: The Joys of Flying Edition
Read more: The ABC’s of Traveling: The Joys of Flying EditionEveryone has heard the old adage, “Even if you are traveling to Hell, you have to go through Atlanta first”. If you are flying in the Eastern part of The United States, this is an accurate assessment.
MOVIES
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All Is True
Read more: All Is TrueIn his autobiography LittleWilson and Big God, Anthony Burgess ( for those of you who did not know, his complete name was John Anthony Burgess Wilson. Furthermore, for those of you who do not know, he was author of A Clockwork Orange, Tremor in Intent, The End of the World News, among many other novels,…
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Birdemic: Shock and Terror
Read more: Birdemic: Shock and TerrorBirdemic: Shock and Terror was clearly made without the benefit of anyone who knew absolutely anything about filmmaking within a hundred yards of the set. Witness production values and acting that make Tommy Wiseau’s notorious 2003 classic The Room look like a legitimate masterpiece. Witness sound editing and mixing apparently done by a pair of…
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Matters of Survival: A Note on In a Lonely Place & Bigger Than Life
Read more: Matters of Survival: A Note on In a Lonely Place & Bigger Than LifeIn a Lonely Place (1950) and Bigger Than Life (1956), two of Nicholas Ray’s finest films, are about two men made to feel “ten feet tall” in order to survive. For Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart) in Place, it happens in a war; World War II, to be precise. For Ed Avery (James Mason) in Life,…
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Beethoven (1992)
Read more: Beethoven (1992)Despite evidence to the contrary, much of it written by me, I am not a monster. Like virtually any human being, I have certainly been known to find dogs charming, but I am happy the building in which I live only allows cats because I would rather see my neighbors’ pets than hear them, and…
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Darkon (2006)
Read more: Darkon (2006)Before I even begin to insult the participants in Darkon by giving them verbal swirlies and literary locker-stuffings, I must digress for a moment and recognize how tragic this whole thing is.
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Ezra’s Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2020
Read more: Ezra’s Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2020Allow me to be the absolute first to say, 2020 was a strange year, and not least of all for movies. Beyond the fact that I no longer work in the industry after 20 years of doing almost nothing else for a living, there came a time about a month ago when critics began dropping…
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The Trial of the Chicago Seven – A Few Good Men
Read more: The Trial of the Chicago Seven – A Few Good MenAs I write this, it is January 2021. A few days ago, rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, attempting a violent insurrection of the U.S government, fueled at its core by anger, hatred, and lies. That event is still very raw for us, and in some ways, it made watching this movie very uncomfortable. It sparked…
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Diary Of A Serial Killer-aka Rough Draft (1998)
Read more: Diary Of A Serial Killer-aka Rough Draft (1998)Right from the opening frame of the 1998 straight-to-video thriller Diary of a Serial Killer (aka Rough Draft), it is obviously a cheesy affair. The score, with its heavy saxophone wailing and bombastic drum-machine track, feels more like something from the 80s than the late 90s, and the rest of the movie feels the same way. Our protagonist,…
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Dragged Across Concrete
Read more: Dragged Across ConcreteS. Craig Zahler has been accused, even by those who (rightly) praised his first two features, of harboring a reactionary worldview, and Dragged Across Concrete feels like his response to this criticism in much the same way that The House That Jack Built felt like Lars Von Trier’s response to critics who see his work…
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