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A Few Ruthless Movie Villains
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Read more: A Few Ruthless Movie VillainsHere are A Few Ruthless Movie Villains. Villains have been part of movies since their inception. We love them, we love to hate them, but most of all we know how to appreciate them in our movies. Here at Ruthless we have our own set of villains, especially in our 80s Action Movies, but I’m…
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The Summit (2012)
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Read more: The Summit (2012)Here we have yet another mountain climbing documentary where on August of 2008, 25 dare-devils headed for the summit, but 11 climbers never came back, meeting their death on a mountain, nicknamed The Savage Mountain, also known as K2. Here at Ruthless, our fascination and disdain for born-rich fools who pollute our beautiful mountains with…
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The Ghost Army (2013)
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Read more: The Ghost Army (2013)The Ghost Army is an amazing documentary that vividly shows how WWII was a complete and total effort from every corner of American and Allied creativity. Surely, as has been unanimously proclaimed, this was “The Greatest Generation”, and I am still learning every day just how great they were.
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Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
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Read more: Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)There are movies that are familial train wrecks. There are movies like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf that are deaths by 10,000 cuts. However, I have never before seen such a devastating wreck as Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, a masterpiece created by the 83 year-old genius director, Sydney Lumet. This movie was not…
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The Bug Museum -or- A Creationist’s Worst Nightmare
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Read more: The Bug Museum -or- A Creationist’s Worst NightmareThis is the Bug Museum. I know that Ruthless Reviews is not a travelogue, but I simply must comment on a fascinating place that I encountered in my travels to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Some of you may have noticed this on my FaceBook page, The Harrell House of Natural Oddities, or The Bug Museum.…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 46
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 46Movie: Moon The entire movie is one long memorable scene. Moon is a movie starring Sam Rockwell and no one else save Kevin Spacey, who is the voice of the robot Gerty. This movie is a low budget movie (5 million dollars), but it is one of the best sci-fi space movies ever created. Any…
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A Christmas Carol (2020)
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Read more: A Christmas Carol (2020)A Christmas Carol: A heavily narrated, twitching jerking, twirling, pretentious and choreographed mess. But, it was a beautiful mess. This is yet another rendition of my favorite themed Christmas movie, A Christmas Carol. In an upscale Victorian home, the children had constructed a paper theater version of this classic. As grandmother narrates the story of…
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Klaus: (2019) Netflix
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Read more: Klaus: (2019) NetflixI do not particularly care for animated films, super hero films, or comic book films. However, as my Christmas Movie stocking is about empty, I could not ignore what was apparently yet another Netflix Christmas movie. So, I moved to my living room, made a small fire in the hearth, and fired up Klaus on…
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Christmas At Graceland: Home For The Holidays
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Read more: Christmas At Graceland: Home For The HolidaysMy career with Ruthless has been a good one with many high-water marks like Midnight Cowboy and my Christmas Movie reviews and related articles. There have also been a few low spots, but this movie is one ditch that I may not be able to crawl out of. Somehow, someway, Matt Cale talked me into…
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Free Fire
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Read more: Free FireNever has a film made in 2017 begged more to be reviewed in the 80s Action format, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. There were more bullets flying in this movie than there were sexual innuendos. Nothing else mattered, the quotes and one-liners in Free Fire put it into the rarefied air…