Category: Features
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A Serious Man (2009)
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Read more: A Serious Man (2009)After the success of their rightly acclaimed, Oscar-winning 2007 hit No Country for Old Men, the Coen Brothers made two dry, dark comedies in a row, neither of which has garnered the same level of praise as their brooding Texas masterpiece. Though Burn After Reading (2008) has developed a substantial cult following since its release,…
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Playtime (Jacques Tati’s)
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Read more: Playtime (Jacques Tati’s)2 hrs, 36 minutes, suitable for all ages Q’esque que c’est? The last of Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot comedies, a major inspiration for Rowan Atkinson’s Laugh In. Fair value of Antrum: $25.00. I really can’t think of another film like it. In some ways, it evokes Chaplin’s Modern Times, but it has a subtlety and…
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Velvet Buzzsaw
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Read more: Velvet BuzzsawWhen not engaged in auto-fellatio, one can imagine highbrow, hoity-toity circles—art, fashion, and I shudder to think cinema is a third possibility—to instead partake in a close alternative; self-fucking. Sure, many a casting couch allegation attests to the coercive Weinstein Way, but I speak of complementary players being in bed with one another for the…
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The Curse of The Micropenised Cop
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Read more: The Curse of The Micropenised CopAnd I’m not discounting that there are some great cops out there doing great police work, but what I’m saying is…. most of them aren’t and most of them can’t. That’s just the truth. You can take the Christopher Dorner case as an example…
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Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made
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Read more: Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made1 hr 35 minutes, R for extreme violence, torture, mutilation How deadly is it? Well, so far, I feel OK, but the editors of Ruthless will let you know if I died, so, clock’s ticking. I suppose I’m the ideal guinea pig for watching a cursed film that kills everyone who watches it- I’ve…
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Christmas In July -or- It’s Not Even July Yet
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Read more: Christmas In July -or- It’s Not Even July YetThe Christmas Season is again over as a New Year approaches. Yet again, the imaginary and paranoid “War On Christmas” has failed to materialize, just like the last prediction of the Rapture.
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Suspicion (1941)
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Read more: Suspicion (1941)“Gaslighting” is the use of psychological manipulation to make a person doubt their own sanity, and even to lose it. The term derives from the 1938 British play Gas Light and its 1940 and 1944 film adaptations from Britain and Hollywood, respectively. It is somewhat surprising Alfred Hitchcock was not at the helm of the…
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Best Movies That Can Inspire Kids To Be More Active
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Read more: Best Movies That Can Inspire Kids To Be More ActiveKids are naturally fast learners, and they quickly grab information, especially when they are between the age of one to four. Training your kids has moved on from pointing out pictures to them on hardcopy books — you can now do more, thanks to the TV. Unlike in the past, when televisions were a symbol…
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Dreamers: John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre & The Misfits
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Read more: Dreamers: John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre & The MisfitsSpeaking of cowboys, Isabelle Steers (Thelma Ritter) says to aging cowboy Gay Langland (Clark Gable), “I love every miserable one of you, though you’re all good for nothing, as you well know,” to which he replies, “That may be, but it’s better than wages.” That motto (“it’s better than wages”) is referred to several times…
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Still Mad About Game of Thrones? Here’s What You Can Do About It
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Read more: Still Mad About Game of Thrones? Here’s What You Can Do About ItEven if you’re the world’s biggest Game of Thrones fan, you probably weren’t thrilled about the final season. Many optimistic and casual fans expressed positive sentiments about the eighth and final season last year, but still preferred the show’s earlier seasons. Other, more engrossed fans, were utterly dismayed at their perception of the show’s bad…