Category: Features
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Eternals
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Read more: Eternals“Eternals” – Forgetting what works. For years, Marvel and its Cinematic Universe (MCU) have been chugging along, producing one great movie after another, with the occasional Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 to remind us that nobody is perfect. Simultaneously, Warner Brothers and its DC Extended Universe (DCEU) have been frantically trying to emulate the…
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That’ll Be The Day
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Read more: That’ll Be The DayIn his entertaining and insightful piece, Stop this Sketch. It’s Silly, Dave Franklin states Ethan Edwards “drops the ball” at the end of The Searchers. “That’ll be the day.” The Searchers was directed by the great John Ford (a director not much admired by some here at Ruthless. If you have seen the footage of…
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Absolute Corruption: Citizen Kane, Scarface, Beauty and the Beast
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Read more: Absolute Corruption: Citizen Kane, Scarface, Beauty and the BeastNever before or since has any director made such an impressive feature film debut as Orson Welles with Citizen Kane, made when he was only 25 years old. Despite having no prior experience in filmmaking, Welles was given carte blanche on the production, and he delivered the most original, innovative, and provocative movie of its…
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Stop this Sketch. It’s Silly
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Read more: Stop this Sketch. It’s SillyNamed after their famous catchphrase, the Pythons’ first movie is actually a rehash of sketches from their 1969-70 TV shows. Despite that, And Now for Something Completely Different is brilliant from start to finish, a staggeringly well-chosen compilation that includes The Lumberjack Song, The Dead Parrot, and Upper Class Twit of the Year. It’s also…
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Dune (2021)
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Read more: Dune (2021)Dune (2021 Denis Villeneuve Version) 2 hours 35 minutes, PG-13 for stabbings, maiming and a nude Oscar Isaac Fair Value of Dune: $20. This is a space opera done right. Not Villeneuve’s greatest film (that’s either Sicario or Blade Runner 2049), but this is the most coherent and comprehensible adaptation of the Frank Herbert epic.…
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Enter The Dragon (1973)
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Read more: Enter The Dragon (1973)Every man fantasizes about having Bruce Lee inside of him. Hmm, call me a cynic, but I sense this simple statement already being misconstrued. Let me be a bit clearer. I don’t mean we feverishly dream of being bummed by the little Asian poppet. I mean we’re all in love with the idea of a…
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Fat Fuckers
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Read more: Fat FuckersChubsters, lard asses and human hippos appear to be the latest group of people we’re s’posed to tippy toe on eggshells around, if not show automatic respect for. Fantastic, and I’ll certainly bear that in mind the next time I’m wedged next to one in Coach Class or I see some slobbering blubber guts outside…
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Phantoms (1998)
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Read more: Phantoms (1998)Phantoms is awful, in that special way movies like Lawrence Kasdan and William Goldman’s Stephen King adaptation Dreamcatcher are awful. Author and screenwriter Dean Koontz is often considered the poor man’s King (perhaps unfairly, as his novel Intensity is one of the best thrillers of the 1990s), so it is fitting that Phantoms should have…
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Monkey Shines (1988)
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Read more: Monkey Shines (1988)George A. Romero’s Monkey Shines is the story of Allan Mann (Jason Beghe), an athlete who is struck down by a semi-truck at the start of the movie, rendering him quadriplegic. He is forced to use one of those wheelchairs operated by blowing into a straw in order to get around, and after he hits…
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Deep Blue Sea (1999)
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Read more: Deep Blue Sea (1999)Deep Blue Sea, like the slasher movies it emulates by way of movies like Alien and Predator, is less a compelling narrative than it is a sort of delivery system for gruesome death scenes. And that’s fine. When a movie realizes its ambition, however high or low that ambition may be, it succeeds. It is…