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Disaster, 70’s Style: Part 4
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Read more: Disaster, 70’s Style: Part 4Movie: Avalanche (1978) “I always thought survival meant being king of the mountain.” Avalanche (1978) Preamble: Given the title, can you work out what’s gonna happen? Control freak and shady businessman Rock Hudson, who looks gayer with each passing scene, is busy doing his best to resemble Kim Jong-il’s puppet in Team America: World Police.…
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Devotion
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Read more: Devotion“Devotion” – Climb just a little higher. Every year there seem to be a pair of movies, sometimes even multiple pairs, that are doppelgangers of each other. Deep Impact and Armageddon. The Prestige and The Illusionist. Or my personal favorite, Turner and Hooch and K-9. Come on – two buddy cop movies where one buddy…
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Disaster, 70’s Style: Part 3
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Read more: Disaster, 70’s Style: Part 3Movie: Airport (1975) “You mean, the stewardess is flying the plane?!” Airport 1975 Preamble: Heart attacks regularly pop up in disaster flicks. They’re convenient, can happen at any stress-related time, and are cheap to film. Here a bloke flying a light aircraft is having ticker trouble. Seconds later his twin-engine motorized gnat crashed into a…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 31
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 31Movie: Alien Alien is a horror movie that just keeps on giving. In dramatic dual and harrowing scenes, Ash loses his head…twice. Viewers might have thought that they were through the worst after the iconic chest-bursting scene, but no, there was more horror and bodily fluids yet to come. After a shocking dust-up and unexpected…
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Disaster, 70’s Style: Part 2
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Read more: Disaster, 70’s Style: Part 2Movie: Earthquake “This used to be helluva town.” Earthquake (1974) Preamble: California sits on the San Andreas Fault, an unfortunate geological fact that saw a few thousand people wiped out in a 1906 quake. Given the growing popularity of disaster flicks, it made perfect sense to depict a monster quake striking the state’s biggest city.…
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Memorable Movie Reflections: The Marx Brothers
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Read more: Memorable Movie Reflections: The Marx BrothersHooray for Captain Spaulding, The African explorer. He brought his name undying fame and that is why we say, Hooray, Hooray, Hooray. Yes, hooray for Captain Spaulding upon his return from the last trip to Africa, complete with entourage (Yes my friends, an entourage is required, even for the terminal mediocrity of today. The intrepid…
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Disaster, 70’s Style: Part One
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Read more: Disaster, 70’s Style: Part OneMovie: The Poseidon Adventure Airport touched down in 1970, turning a $10million budget into a massive hit. It kicked off a decade-long cycle of star-studded disaster flicks that produced something of merit in The Towering Inferno before flaming out in a series of increasingly outlandish sniggerfests, such as pissed-off killer bees and exploding roller coasters.…
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Akira
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Read more: AkiraSome movies just blow you away. Whether it’s because of a great story, superb acting or stunning visuals (preferably all three, of course), there are films out there that just leave you staring, with eyes wide and an open mouth, in an almost childlike bewilderment. Avatar did that to me, as well as some entries…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 30
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 30Movie: Airplane! How on God’s green and violent Earth do you pick a memorable movie scene from the movie Airplane! ? The answer is of course, you can’t just pick one. There are at least 2 dozen memorable scenes in one of the most hilarious movies ever produced. Here is just one, and I promise…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 29
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 29Movie: The Terminator The Terminator is one of my favorite movies of all time, and my review reflects that. As far as science fiction action movies it’s up there with the sequel T2, Aliens, The Thing and both Blade Runner movies. This great film is filled to the brim with action and unforgettable one-liners, but…