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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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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Toxic Waste, Robocop (1987)
Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Toxic Waste, Robocop (1987)So far, only two inanimate objects have had the privilege of HOF induction: Sly’s legendary pair of scissors and, naturally, Bronson’s wine bottle. They deserved their moment in the sun.
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The Naked Gun (2025)
Read more: The Naked Gun (2025)The main attraction to spoofs and parodies is that they make fun of something popular or familiar. Think about all of the most famous spoofs – every one of them has an explicit target.
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Fantastic Four First Steps (2025): Devon’s Take
Read more: Fantastic Four First Steps (2025): Devon’s TakeIt is more difficult to measure the median and the middling than it is to explain the excellent or the execrable. There is versatility in the language for the superlatives and the extremes; it is more difficult to engage with the entertainment that does not provoke.
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Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
Read more: Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)I know you’re worried about Fantastic Four: First Steps. You remember the aggressively mediocre first two Fantastic Four movies featuring Jessica Alba and Chris Evans. You’ve tried to forget the atrocious reboot featuring Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan.
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When Oscar Shit the Bed: The River (1984)
Read more: When Oscar Shit the Bed: The River (1984)Fuck farmers. More specifically, fuck American farmers. From top to bottom, they are easily, by leaps and bounds, the most overrated, romanticized, and unjustly flattered group of people who ever lived.
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Eddington (2025)
Read more: Eddington (2025)I’m having difficulty reviewing this film after only one sitting. It’s engaging but not entertaining, urgent, evocative of other dark contemporary Westerns like No Country for Old Men or Sicario but somehow even grimmer and less fun
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8 Awesome Movie Adaptations That Stayed True to the Book
Read more: 8 Awesome Movie Adaptations That Stayed True to the BookYou’ve read the book. You’ve pictured the world. The characters live in your mind’s eye like friends you never had. Then comes the movie. The risk? Enormous. The stakes? High. But—sometimes—it works.
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I Know What You Did Last Summer: Still? (2025)
Read more: I Know What You Did Last Summer: Still? (2025)With the success (I use this term loosely) of the Scream franchise’s reboot, and the profitability of scary movies in general, it was inevitable that another bygone horror franchise would be brought back from the dead.
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Superman (2025)
Read more: Superman (2025)It’s a summer popcorn film, silly and unserious, a better than middling superhero flick that is made for fans of Silver Age Superman.
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