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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 Gorge (2025)
Read more: The Gorge (2025)One of the many reasons I enjoy Stranger Things is the way it deals with the audience expectation of the possible vs the impossible. The narrative contains witty dialogue delivered by charming and convincing characters.
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Mississippi Burning (1988)
Read more: Mississippi Burning (1988)Mississippi Burning was based on the actual events starting May 1964 when 3 civil rights activists were missing after they were arrested and released in Neshoba Co. Mississippi. They were working with the Freedom Summer campaign which was attempting to register African Americans to vote.
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 54
Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 54This is the opening scene in the bar, where John Russell disciplines a range bum who was disrespecting two Indians, and the tempo of Russell’s screen presence was set
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Hard Truths (2024)
Read more: Hard Truths (2024)The greatest of cinematic sins, now and forever, is over-explanation. Tying A to B when C is a better bet. Reducing the complexity, nuance, and maddening ambiguity of life – any life – to simpleminded reasoning rooted in dime store psychology.
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Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
Read more: Captain America: Brave New World (2025)Are you ready for the full return of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) to a theater near you? It’s a much needed reset.
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Simon Birch
Read more: Simon BirchDon’t lecture me at the movies. Dwarfism arguably the surest sign we have for an unloving, merciless god. To afflict any human being with a litany of curses – from the puffy chest, to the sausage-like fingers, to the unmistakable teetering walk of a Weeble.
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Good Will Hunting (1997)
Read more: Good Will Hunting (1997)I’m not going to do my usual review format, but just want to lay a little groundwork before I discuss relationships, which are the very essence of this great film.
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Maniac Cop (1988)
Read more: Maniac Cop (1988)“Make it bigger than AIDS!” If a line of dialogue ever locked in a movie at the dead center of Reagan’s America, it’s that one. Once it hits, like that late-night slip into a warm bath, you know you’re home. Safe and sound, naturally
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Death Ship (1980)
Read more: Death Ship (1980)February 10, 2025. Not quite D-Day, Pearl Harbor, or that dreadful afternoon in Dallas, but close. Damn close. Here, before me, was an image I never thought I’d see, and yes, the scene I never knew I’d been missing: George Kennedy.
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