Category: Movies
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 46
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 46Movie: Moon The entire movie is one long memorable scene. Moon is a movie starring Sam Rockwell and no one else save Kevin Spacey, who is the voice of the robot Gerty. This movie is a low budget movie (5 million dollars), but it is one of the best sci-fi space movies ever created. Any…
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A Christmas Carol (2020)
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Read more: A Christmas Carol (2020)A Christmas Carol: A heavily narrated, twitching jerking, twirling, pretentious and choreographed mess. But, it was a beautiful mess. This is yet another rendition of my favorite themed Christmas movie, A Christmas Carol. In an upscale Victorian home, the children had constructed a paper theater version of this classic. As grandmother narrates the story of…
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Wonka
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Read more: Wonka“Wonka” – Life is like a box of chocolates. It’s the holidays and you know what that means…mystery chocolates. I suppose it’s also a time for family and gifts and arguments. But nothing gets the adrenaline going like examining the box of chocolates that mysteriously only materializes on holidays, hoping the picture on the inside…
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Klaus: (2019) Netflix
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Read more: Klaus: (2019) NetflixI do not particularly care for animated films, super hero films, or comic book films. However, as my Christmas Movie stocking is about empty, I could not ignore what was apparently yet another Netflix Christmas movie. So, I moved to my living room, made a small fire in the hearth, and fired up Klaus on…
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In The Company of Men
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Read more: In The Company of MenTo be blunt, everything men do is a distraction from the unshakable truth that they would rather be fucking each other.
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Christmas At Graceland: Home For The Holidays
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Read more: Christmas At Graceland: Home For The HolidaysMy career with Ruthless has been a good one with many high-water marks like Midnight Cowboy and my Christmas Movie reviews and related articles. There have also been a few low spots, but this movie is one ditch that I may not be able to crawl out of. Somehow, someway, Matt Cale talked me into…
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Splendor In the Grass
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Read more: Splendor In the GrassElia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass just might be the first Hollywood film to argue that virginity is the surest ticket to emotional instability
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Double Indemnity
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Read more: Double IndemnityIn a just universe, we’d all toil tirelessly in Billy Wilder’s cinematic fantasy, never once questioning his authority or perspective. There have been more visionary artists to be sure – and certainly more ambitious – but few are as perfect a fit for any occasion. Because of his genius regarding the melding of humor, pathos,…
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Free Fire
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Read more: Free FireNever has a film made in 2017 begged more to be reviewed in the 80s Action format, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. There were more bullets flying in this movie than there were sexual innuendos. Nothing else mattered, the quotes and one-liners in Free Fire put it into the rarefied air…
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Unforgiven (1992)
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Read more: Unforgiven (1992)For whatever reason, the Western became very sick in the 1970s, one of its shuddering last breaths taken when a scar-faced Clint Eastwood jumped behind a Gatling gun to let loose merry hell in the brilliant Outlaw Josey Wales. There was nothing of much note after that, the genre pretty much given the coup de…