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Assholes of the Cinema: Baptist Medical Center, Death Wish 3
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Read more: Assholes of the Cinema: Baptist Medical Center, Death Wish 3Let’s be clear: if you’re actively dying, suffering any type of heart attack from mild to fuck it, or bleeding from the orifice of your choosing, do not, under any circumstances, walk through the sliding doors of Baptist Medical Center
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Toilet Man, Death Wish 3
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Toilet Man, Death Wish 3There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t think of him. He’s maybe 15-20 seconds of the total film, but he’s left me with 30+ years of memories. Dark thoughts. Often a nightmare or two. And then, a warmth washes over me
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Once is Not Enough (1975)
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Read more: Once is Not Enough (1975)January (Deborah Raffin) is coming home. Having spent many agonizing months rehabilitating at a plush, no-dollar-spared facility in the mountains of Switzerland, she is ready to return stateside into the loving arms of her father, Mike (Kirk Douglas). The very loving arms of her father. You see, January has a father complex
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Interiors (1978)
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Read more: Interiors (1978)Happy Mother’s Day. Buried deep within the arteries of Interiors’ ever-hardening heart lies a cruel, yet unmistakable truth: until such time that one’s mother lies buried in the earth – irrevocably dispatched to that great undiscovered country – full adulthood cannot be reached.
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The Unsung: Arthur, Interiors (1978)
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Read more: The Unsung: Arthur, Interiors (1978)And so begins Woody Allen’s Interiors, one of cinema’s boldest declarations yet for the embrace of unchecked hedonism in the face of cerebral detachment. Where we are encouraged – required, even – to reevaluate everything
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The Unsung: Kamp Komfort Clerk, Vacation (1983)
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Read more: The Unsung: Kamp Komfort Clerk, Vacation (1983)How he got to man the register at Colorado’s Kamp Komfort, we’ll never really know. Is he a seasonal employee, the only one who didn’t call in sick, or has the campground been his baby from the start?
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The Unsung: Mr. Bernstein, Citizen Kane (1941)
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Read more: The Unsung: Mr. Bernstein, Citizen Kane (1941)Everett Sloane” hardly sends chills down anyone’s spine, but when the book on 20th century cinematic art is written, he’ll be there, somewhere around the second or third chapter,
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The ABC’s Of Prostitution
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Read more: The ABC’s Of ProstitutionAdult Services: Whether using a phone book or website, it’s a dead end to look for any other term. Some phone books have removed the section altogether, preferring “Adult Entertainment” to legally cover stripping, basement/garage modeling, jumping out of cakes, and the like. “Services,” on the other hand, ensures the exchange of sex for money,…
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The Unsung: Cookie, in Deconstructing Harry (1997)
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Read more: The Unsung: Cookie, in Deconstructing Harry (1997)If there is a misunderstood and despised figure in American cinema, it is the prostitute. If they aren’t being reduced to a crude stereotype, they are granted little agency at all, and even less dignity
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Assholes of the Cinema: Brian Glover, Kes (1969)
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Read more: Assholes of the Cinema: Brian Glover, Kes (1969)He is the British working class in a single, stout, has-been of a frame. Hell, he just might stand in for the entire United Kingdom, circa 1969. Past moments, few and fleeting, remembered instead as unparalleled triumphs