Category: Movies
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Glengarry Glen Ross
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Read more: Glengarry Glen RossFew films have been as woefully misunderstood as James Foley’s 1992 adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Mamet.
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Wonder Park
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Read more: Wonder ParkOnly the best rides make you puke. Based on the previews, I was expecting Wonder Park to be much worse than it ended up being. I am probably cutting it some slack due to my man/nerd crush on John Oliver, but it exceeded my expectations. More importantly, it kept my son’s attention, which is really…
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300 Movie Review
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Read more: 300 Movie ReviewBush love through bush hate.
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Lords of Chaos
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Read more: Lords of ChaosFair Value of Lords of Chaos: $18.00. One of the best comedies I’ve seen in a while. A Spinal Tap for my generation, deadpan and wry. Is This Film Worth My Time? You’re either going to laugh, or you’re going to be very disturbed, at the antics of the Scandinavian misanthropes that populate this film.…
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Das Boot
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Read more: Das BootDas Boot opens with a bunch of drunken sailors pissing on a U-Boat Captain and his officers. This is no doubt a metaphorical stab at the fact that the Nazi overlords essentially sent literal boatloads of U-Boat men into the meat grinder. 40,000 sailors went out in German subs. About 7,000 came back. Even…
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Captain Marvel
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Read more: Captain MarvelSettle down, all you geeks. With the release of Avengers: Endgame rapidly approaching (just six short (LONG!!) weeks away), movie theaters are preparing for the ultimate nerd-gasm. You might think they are prepared for this after the first Avengers and Avengers: Infinity War (not to mention Star Wars: The Force Awakens), but we nerds have…
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The Trouble With Harry
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Read more: The Trouble With Harry– Hitchcock is one of cinema’s great misanthropes, perhaps the greatest.
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X2 – X Men United
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Read more: X2 – X Men UnitedX2 wasn’t bad per se. In fact, it sort of wasn’t anything. It just wasn’t.
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American Psycho
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Read more: American PsychoRead the book.
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Aileen: The Life & Death of a Serial Killer
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Read more: Aileen: The Life & Death of a Serial KillerDirected by Nick Broomfield & Joan Churchill Matt Cale likes to reason why… Nick Broomfield’s documentary about the life and times (and final days) of killer Aileen Wuornos proves one thing — Charlize Theron’s performance earns every ounce of praise it has received. When Broomfield returns for a final jailhouse interview (the day before Aileen’s…