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College Basketball Conference Tournaments: A Rant
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Read more: College Basketball Conference Tournaments: A RantHere we are down to the final Sunday, where most conferences are showcasing conference championship games. Basketball conference tournaments are grueling affairs, and what do they accomplish?
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 27
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 27With movies like Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks accomplished the impossible, movies that could never be made today. The Frankenstein movie contained one of the greatest supporting casts ever, but one cameo appearance trumped all the rest.
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Midnight Cowboy
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Read more: Midnight CowboyMovies have been often characterized as innovative, ground-breaking, trend-setting or wildly original, and these terms can be overused, but I cannot emphasize enough what a bold and courageous experiment in cinema was Midnight Cowboy
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Mississippi Burning (1988)
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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
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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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Good Will Hunting (1997)
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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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Tombstone (1993)
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Read more: Tombstone (1993)Homoeroticism? More than you can possibly imagine. I don’t even know where to begin, but it doesn’t matter. While definitely not an 80’s Action movie, this movie was all about the guys, in spite of the presence of many hot women.
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Pears (2024)
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Read more: Pears (2024)Pears is a low budget ($3,000-5,000) Indie movie written and produced by Ryan McCurdy. This film is about private investigators, P.I. wannabees, over-the-top crazy woman girlfriends, but most of all about unchecked incompetence
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The Lion In Winter (1968)
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Read more: The Lion In Winter (1968)The Lion In Winter is the greatest movie ever to only win 3 Oscars, with another Academy slap in the face to Peter O’Toole. I guess that the Academy reveres retards the mentally and emotionally challenged (Charly and Forrest Gump) more than Saving Private Ryan and Peter O’Toole.
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Chato’s Land (1972)
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Read more: Chato’s Land (1972)Chato’s Land is not a happy movie or your usual Western. It is not a funny film, or one for viewers who cannot tolerate vile bigotry and brutal and explicit rape. However, it is a movie that showcases the laconic Charles Bronson at his most ripped and bad-assed best.