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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Pocketbook Lady, Death Wish 3
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Pocketbook Lady, Death Wish 3Left penniless by the Giggler’s savagery, she’s fighting back in the only way she knows how: by taking pleasure in another’s pain. Schadenfreude, the American Way.
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The Unsung: Rahad Jackson, Boogie Nights (1997)
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Read more: The Unsung: Rahad Jackson, Boogie Nights (1997)Rahad Jackson is a survivor. Of all the characters in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights – the doomed, the damned, the disturbingly well-endowed – he’s one of the few one can imagine emerging from the 1980’s intact.
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
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Read more: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)Why do the farmers all wear pajamas? It’s a damn good question for young Bruno to entertain and, as expected, Mama and Papa are unwilling to offer an answer. Minutes after moving to his new house in the country, Bruno looks out of his bedroom window and just happens to notice the death camp next…
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The Unsung: Mordecai, High Plains Drifter (1973)
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Read more: The Unsung: Mordecai, High Plains Drifter (1973)Billy Curtis, God rest his soul, was a fucking legend. Not just a midget legend, mind you, but a legend in his own right, four-foot-two stature be damned.
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The Gene Hackman Chronicles, Volume III: Another Woman (1988)
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Read more: The Gene Hackman Chronicles, Volume III: Another Woman (1988)It stands to reason that if Gene Hackman were to appear in a Woody Allen movie, it would be as “the one who got away.” A man of deep feeling and intensity; neither shy nor reserved, standing as a masculine alternative to cold intellectualism and academic piety
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Small Business Owner, Death Wish 3
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Small Business Owner, Death Wish 3The United States, if you believe the myth, was built by grit, tenacity, long hours, and great determination. Heedless of risk, these men and women of yesteryear passed along to their progeny the unquenchable desire to gamble it all for even the slightest slice of the American pie
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Notes On A Scandal (2006)
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Read more: Notes On A Scandal (2006)Few things bore more easily than unjustified earnestness; the sort of film, for example, that pretends its meanderings and foolish plot turns are anything other than tiresome distractions
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Sex Madness (1934)
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Read more: Sex Madness (1934)If Sex Madness is to be believed – the greatest threat facing the United States in the 1930’s wasn’t Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or even Communism, but rather the previously unmentionable blight of syphilis.
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Barry Lyndon: 50th Anniversary Edition
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Read more: Barry Lyndon: 50th Anniversary Edition“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport.”
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Assholes of the Cinema: The Entire Cast, Women in Love (1970)
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Read more: Assholes of the Cinema: The Entire Cast, Women in Love (1970)Never before in the history of motion pictures has more been said about love without a single character doing a damn thing about it.