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Simon Birch
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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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Maniac Cop (1988)
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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)
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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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Concorde: Airport 79
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Read more: Concorde: Airport 79In many ways, Concorde: Airport 79 has always been the bastard child of the decade’s disaster series, but it just might be its most watchable.
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Wine Bottle, Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Wine Bottle, Death Wish 4: The CrackdownBy 1987, Paul Kersey was a shell of his former self. Sure, he hadn’t lost a step in terms of his desire to kill, nor his near-legendary taste for much younger women, but he was getting lazy. Incredibly lazy. Would the Paul of yore have resorted to MacGyver methods when a gun barrel to the…
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The Unsung: Civilian, Apocalypse Now (1979)
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Read more: The Unsung: Civilian, Apocalypse Now (1979)He is everyone and no one. A man of mystery, never to be pigeonholed or defined, yet so real, so tangible, he all but stands in for every G-man who ever lived. Soldier, bureaucrat, and yes, “civilian” (as he’s so named in the credits)
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The ABC’s of Midgets
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Read more: The ABC’s of MidgetsInside the Lollipop Guild.
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
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Read more: The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)In 1974, Samuel Bicke (Sean Penn) took a gun to the Baltimore-Washington Airport with the intent of hijacking a plane, crashing it into the White House, and killing President Nixon.
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The Misunderstood: Jabba the Hutt, Return of the Jedi
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Read more: The Misunderstood: Jabba the Hutt, Return of the JediAt last, I can express it to my handful of readers, most of whom likely share similar concerns. Simply put, I mourn for Jabba. Yes, Jabba the Hutt, the most misunderstood figure in the annals of fantasy.
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40 Years of Death Wish 3: A Celebration
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Read more: 40 Years of Death Wish 3: A CelebrationThe Summer of 1985. While I was spending six weeks in Indiana with my maniacal grandmother, learning that yes, a 12-year-old can indeed conjure up vivid fantasies of mass murder, director Michael Winner, via MGM and Golan-Globus, was putting the final touches on the greatest motion picture ever released.