Category: Movies
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Three Days of the Condor
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Read more: Three Days of the Condor1 hour 57 minutes, R for violence Fair Value of Three Days of the Condor: $6.00. This Sydney Pollack classic is a twisty and cynical spy film, one that prefigures much of the Jason Bourne films in the theme of ‘disavowed spy forced to live off his wits’. Crackling. Golden Age Cinema and the…
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8 Of The Best Films About Writing
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Read more: 8 Of The Best Films About WritingAre you a writer looking for a good movie to watch, one that really speaks to you? Ever wanted to know how some writers (if not all them) go through the writing process and writer’s block? (Though, some of these movies that will be listed are considered cautionary tales for those looking to be famous…
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The Good, the Bad, and the Tender: An Analysis of the Humanity in Sergio Leone’s Cinema.
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Read more: The Good, the Bad, and the Tender: An Analysis of the Humanity in Sergio Leone’s Cinema.Smoke billows out of a destroyed confederate base. Lee Van Cleef’s angular faced Angel Eyes enters the wide frame, riding his obsidian black horse. He trots up a rocky hill, into the destruction. The late great Ennio Morricone’s haunting score starts silently, slowly rising throughout the scene. Angel Eyes leaves his horse behind, walking on…
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The Farmer’s Wife (1928)
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Read more: The Farmer’s Wife (1928)2 Hours 9 minutes Fair Value of The Farmer and His Wife: $0.00. In this early (1928) silent film, a young Hitchcock is both out of his element (mystery) and his medium (dialogue), and so this early drama is generic and basic, largely lacking in Hitchcock’s style. This is a snoozer. Summary of the Concept:…
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20 Movies That Guys Love: Part One
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Read more: 20 Movies That Guys Love: Part OneNeedless to say, all guys are different and therefore like different things. However, there are also things that unite them all, and are intrinsic to almost all men regardless of their age, location, race, etc. This thing is the best guy movies of all time! This article seeks to provide you with a list of…
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Silver Bullet (1985)
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Read more: Silver Bullet (1985)At the risk of gaining a reputation as some sort of lunatic who insists on reading way too much into the subtext of popular 80s movies, the 1985 werewolf movie Silver Bullet is about priests molesting children. The “priest” in question here is actually a Reverend, which indicates he is not in fact a Catholic…
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Juno and the Paycock
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Read more: Juno and the Paycock1 hour 34 minutes Fair Value of Juno and the Paycock: $-5.00. 1920s knockoff Bernard Shaw misery porn that lacks in much of the style or timing that Hitchcock would later display. This early Hitchcock film shows why he went to thrillers and suspense- it’s artless and heartless. Summary of the Concept: A poor…
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The Top 10 Movie Drunks
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Read more: The Top 10 Movie DrunksHere at Ruthless, we take substance abuse seriously. That, of course, does not keep us from enjoying movies, and their characters who happen to be 24-carat alcoholics.
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Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
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Read more: Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)A few years after enacting a disgustingly doomed romance in The Fly, real-life husband-and-wife Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis went on to play a similarly weird but much less doomed couple in Julien Temple’s 1988 cult classic Earth Girls Are Easy. Unlike The Fly, which was dark and deep enough to warrant speculation about its…
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The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
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Read more: The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus123 Minutes, PG-13 for adult themes The pleasures and perils of imagination… Is it Truly as Awesome as Your Synopsis Suggests? Not quite. But it’s still a wonderful and weird delirium of a movie. I’m glad that this is not Terry Gilliam’s last film, though it could have served as a fine swan song for…