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Shotgun Wedding
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Read more: Shotgun Wedding“Shotgun Wedding” – Just shoot me. Yes, I voluntarily attended a screening of a movie called Shotgun Wedding. Yes, I willingly devoted two hours of my life to a film starring Jennifer Lopez and that guy that plays that one soldier in the Transformers movies (Josh Duhamel). Yes, I knowingly watched a movie that Lionsgate…
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A Love Song
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Read more: A Love SongFaye (Dale Dickey) lives alone in a trailer currently parked at a campsite overlooking a view so gorgeous it’s hard to believe it is real and not a matte painting of the type employed as background in old Hollywood westerns. She lives simply, always finding the perfect song for the moment on her old transistor…
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Thirty Odd Years Of Walken: Part 2
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Read more: Thirty Odd Years Of Walken: Part 2A mainstream pat on the back in A View to a Kill (1985) Not too many actors get to play a Bond megalomaniac, but Walken was happy to dye his hair blonde and give things a whirl. Did he do a good job? Hmm, well, he’s Max Zorin, the product of some WW2 Nazi experimentation…
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Thirty Odd Years Of Walken: Part One
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Read more: Thirty Odd Years Of Walken: Part OneBy 1991 Christopher Walken was a major star, having secured a place in pop culture with his Oscar-winning Deer Hunter turn. Yet watch him drift through that year’s little-seen All-American Murder clad in a leather jacket and a fixed expression and you have to wonder what the fuck’s going on. Surely an actor of such…
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Hollywood Novels
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Read more: Hollywood NovelsIt is a sad truth in life that you can’t watch movies all the time. Believe me, I know, I’ve tried. So, is there an alternative? I’ve tried to maintain my dedication to the ideal of ”Cinema is my religion and the theater is my church” (a line I borrowed from Victor Hugo. He was…
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The Zero Theorem
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Read more: The Zero Theorem‘You’re quite insane, Mr. Leth…’ They say that to really understand someone, you need to see inside their house. If the same thing goes for movies and minds, I think I like Terry Gilliam. He was once a member of the legendary Flying Circus of Monty Python, and since then wrote, among other things, the…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 36
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 36Movie: Five Easy Pieces Jack Nicholson had several minor movie parts, like in The Little Shop of Horrors, before his first big role in Easy Rider. Before making the blockbuster films Chinatown and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, he was in Five Easy Pieces, his first movie where he was the headliner. There is…
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The Not Quite #7: Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)
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Read more: The Not Quite #7: Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)“God will forgive them. He’ll forgive them and allow them into heaven. I can’t live with that.” So says our heartbroken, self-loathing main man in an ominous voiceover at the start of this revenger. And, of course, he finds ‘them’ and does a wee bit more than issue a stern telling off. Sounds like formulaic…
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Abusive Flesh Peddlers: Part 2
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Read more: Abusive Flesh Peddlers: Part 2Sidney in Magnum Force (1973) Fair play, Sidney (Albert Popwell) doesn’t have too much screen time in this cop classic but he sure does make an impression. You have to say that this is a man who appears to have got out of the wrong side of bed. He’s particularly grumpy when it comes to…
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Abusive Flesh Peddlers: Part One
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Read more: Abusive Flesh Peddlers: Part OneI’ve got a theory that a fair few women fantasize about being hookers. Like most of my theories, it’s probably shite, but I’ve always been fond of airing my ignorance. I really should get a Twitter account. So, anyway, why do I think some women daydream about loveless, monetised sex with strangers? Because so many…