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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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The Horsemen (1971)
Read more: The Horsemen (1971)The Horsemen arrived on theater screens in 1971 with an impressive pedigree. A screenplay from a celebrated French novel adapted by an Oscar winning writer, photographed by two of the finest cinematographers and directed by the filmmaker who gave us Seven Days in May and The Manchurian Candidate.
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Sinners (2025)
Read more: Sinners (2025)One moment, Selma Hayek is doing a seductive dance in her underwear while wielding a large snake, George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino looking on. The next moment, she is a b-movie vampire attacking the strip club’s patrons
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Top Gun: Maverick -or- Hello Aeroplane
Read more: Top Gun: Maverick -or- Hello AeroplaneHello, Aeroplane “Where am I?” “Earth.” Like Tom Cruise doesn’t know that. He just fell out of the sky, after pushing a trillion-dollar concept plane beyond its limits. That limit being Mach 10. After treating us to near-as-makes-no-difference exactly the same opening sequence as the legendary 1986 classic.
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When Oscar Shit the Bed: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Read more: When Oscar Shit the Bed: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)Not so long ago, in the Year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-Four, Hollywood saw fit to release a major motion picture (MGM! CinemaScope!) that endorsed, sanctioned, and ultimately made light of kidnapping, rape, and deep, unshakable misogyny. Women as property.
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The Amateur (2025)
Read more: The Amateur (2025)The hero of our hero’s journey is CIA agent Charlie Heller (Rami Malek). He’s not a Jason Bourne or James Bond type of agent, he’s the kind of agent that sits at a desk and feeds information to the Bournes and Bonds
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When Oscar Shit the Bed: Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Read more: When Oscar Shit the Bed: Crimes of the Heart (1986)The nominations for Sissy Spacek (Best Actress) and Tess Harper (Best Supporting Actress) are inexplicable enough, but to learn that this slapdash, magnolia-scented monstrosity also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981?
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Great Moments, Bad Cinema: Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
Read more: Great Moments, Bad Cinema: Picking Up the Pieces (2000)Ever the completist, I decided one lonely evening to finally watch 2000’s Picking Up the Pieces, a rare bird of a picture where Woody Allen appeared as an actor, but neither wrote nor directed.
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The Unsung: Annette, The Last Showgirl (2024)
Read more: The Unsung: Annette, The Last Showgirl (2024)In a movie that, like Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, accurately validates the idea that the best stories are not about the ascent, but rather the fall, the ultimate privilege is in the further realization that absent the broken, we’d have no real stories to tell.
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Companion (2025)
Read more: Companion (2025)What does the seclusion of weekend getaways and informal get-togethers typically entail for the horror and suspense genres? Idyllic intimacy yielding to cabin fever, perhaps? Madness seeping through the facade of congeniality?
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