Category: Movies
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Christmas Evil (1980)
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Read more: Christmas Evil (1980)This movie was originally billed as a routine Christmas Horror/Slasher flick. Somewhere along the way, it altered course. Christmas Evil became darker, creepier and more sinister as time passed. The character development elevated it into a Holiday Classic of incremental insanity. This was one of the strangest films I have ever seen.
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Carol For Another Christmas (1964)
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Read more: Carol For Another Christmas (1964)This is yet another obscure version of A Christmas Carol, set in the Cold War Period of the 1960’s. A Rod Sterling for TV production.
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“Kraven the Hunter”
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Read more: “Kraven the Hunter”It was less than two months ago when, in my review of Venom: The Last Dance, I advised the folks at Sony to keep their celebratory Sony Spider-Man Universe (SSU) champagne on ice.
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Love Actually (2003)
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Read more: Love Actually (2003)My first review for this venerable site was over five years ago, when I covered the now largely forgotten low point of Danny Boyle’s career, Yesterday, including the following: “I only realized after suffering through two hours of this dreck that its writer also scripted and directed Love Actually.
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A Christmas Carol (2000)
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Read more: A Christmas Carol (2000)A Christmas Carol (2000) is an obscure version of the classic movie that I love so well. Here we do not have Ebeneezer, but Eddie Scrooge, played ruthlessly by Ross Kemp, as a 21st century version of a loan shark in England.
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The Unsung: Malena, Alice Adams
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Read more: The Unsung: Malena, Alice AdamsEnter Malena. A black woman in 1935, she is, unavoidably, a domestic. A hired gun to keep whitey from having to do the grunt work. A woman of few words and even fewer signs of underlying humanity.
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The Odd Couple (1968)
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Read more: The Odd Couple (1968)The Odd Couple is a classic comedy from another time, a different era, no, another planet. It was not violent or vulgar and men wore coats and ties, even to poker games.
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The Rapture (1991): John Welsh is not impressed
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Read more: The Rapture (1991): John Welsh is not impressedI watched this piece of shit based on Cale’s article. Has he gone deaf and blind?
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Nosferatu (2024)
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Read more: Nosferatu (2024)For me to doze off during a movie in a theater, I usually have to be exhausted, or the movie has to be incredibly boring or uninteresting. While I didn’t fall completely asleep during Nosferatu, I threatened it many times.
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A Christmas Carol: (2019) FX Version
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Read more: A Christmas Carol: (2019) FX VersionI’m not going to hold back any longer. This FX near-masterpiece was beyond wonderful, and what they did with this iconic story just blew my mind. I am going to keep spoilers to a minimum, so read with confidence as I take you on a wonderful journey through what may be the best A Christmas…