Category: Movies
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Under the Burning Sun (2025)
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Read more: Under the Burning Sun (2025)Under the Burning Sun is George Miller’s Furiosa meets Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge, with echoes of I Spit On Your Grave and Boys Don’t Cry, the (literal) water carried by a lead performance reminiscent of Jodie Foster’s Nell.
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All In: The Poker Movie (2012) Review: Exploring How Poker Got So Cool
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Read more: All In: The Poker Movie (2012) Review: Exploring How Poker Got So CoolBelieve it or not, poker wasn’t always an attractive card game to play. Looking back at its portrayal in the mainstream media before the turn of the century, director Douglas Tirola notes that you’ll primarily run into movies like Risky Business (1983) and Can’t Buy Me Love (1987)
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Ezra’s Ruthless Oscar Predictions for 2025
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Read more: Ezra’s Ruthless Oscar Predictions for 2025Time once again for my extremely reliable, one hundred percent accurate Oscar predictions! If you want the short version, scroll right down to the end, where I recap all my predictions in a tidy column
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Gene Hackman: Legend
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Read more: Gene Hackman: LegendMean as a snake, even when he’s winking in your general direction. Pissed and getting pissier, with so much to prove, he’d just as soon knock out your teeth as be figured out.
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How Commercial Restaurant Booths Shape Conversations in TV Shows and Movies
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Read more: How Commercial Restaurant Booths Shape Conversations in TV Shows and MoviesRestaurant booths have always been more than just a place to eat in movies and TV shows. These cozy, intimate spaces are often used to highlight some of the most memorable and meaningful conversations in film and television.
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Midnight Cowboy
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Read more: Midnight CowboyMovies have been often characterized as innovative, ground-breaking, trend-setting or wildly original, and these terms can be overused, but I cannot emphasize enough what a bold and courageous experiment in cinema was Midnight Cowboy
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Sudden Impact (1983)
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Read more: Sudden Impact (1983)Revenge is best served with a comically farting dog.
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The Unsung: Reuben, Reuben, Reuben (1983)
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Read more: The Unsung: Reuben, Reuben, Reuben (1983)There are dogs and there are dogs, but there’s only one Reuben. An Old English Sheepdog of the most supreme vintage, Reuben (of 1983’s Reuben, Reuben.
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Assholes of the Cinema: Laurence Fishburne, Boyz N the Hood (1991)
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Read more: Assholes of the Cinema: Laurence Fishburne, Boyz N the Hood (1991)Furious T. Stiles. Okay, so maybe I made up the “T.” part, but when you’re that achingly close to Groucho’s Rufus T. Firefly in the Ridiculous Moniker Hall of Fame sweepstakes, you have to ad lib a little
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Ferris Bueller’s Almost Forty (1986)
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Read more: Ferris Bueller’s Almost Forty (1986)What I’ll be describing is a fresh impression of the film, from a viewing I attended last night with my mom. Cinemas here in California do a thing on Tuesday evenings, where films deemed “classic” by some combination of awards tally, cult fandom, and re-watchability are presented in high-res digital projections, either restored, upscaled, or…