Category: Movies
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8 Awesome Movie Adaptations That Stayed True to the Book
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Read more: 8 Awesome Movie Adaptations That Stayed True to the BookYou’ve read the book. You’ve pictured the world. The characters live in your mind’s eye like friends you never had. Then comes the movie. The risk? Enormous. The stakes? High. But—sometimes—it works.
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I Know What You Did Last Summer: Still? (2025)
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Read more: I Know What You Did Last Summer: Still? (2025)With the success (I use this term loosely) of the Scream franchise’s reboot, and the profitability of scary movies in general, it was inevitable that another bygone horror franchise would be brought back from the dead.
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Superman (2025)
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Read more: Superman (2025)It’s a summer popcorn film, silly and unserious, a better than middling superhero flick that is made for fans of Silver Age Superman.
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In Bruges (2008): From the Ruthless Archives
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Read more: In Bruges (2008): From the Ruthless ArchivesOnce in a rare chance you find a relatively obscure movie that is so unexpectedly wonderful that you feel like you have stolen something.
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Ezra’s Top 25 Movies of the 21st Century So Far
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Read more: Ezra’s Top 25 Movies of the 21st Century So FarInspired by the recent lists going around from the New York Times and Rolling Stone, I present a Ruthless take on the best movies of the first quarter of the 21st century
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Big Fish (2003): From the Ruthless Archives
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Read more: Big Fish (2003): From the Ruthless ArchivesWatching (or should I say enduring) Big Fish is like spending two hours with that obnoxious drunk at the end of the bar.
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M3gan 2.0 (2025)
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Read more: M3gan 2.0 (2025)M3gan 2.0 is like so many products in this day and age: sufficient but never really superseding expectations, too glib and plastic to ever shock or to surprise.
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The Fly (1958): From the Ruthless Archives
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Read more: The Fly (1958): From the Ruthless ArchivesThe Fly (1958). Horror Movies? I’ll never forget this one, not in a million years. Who could ever forget it? At the age of 9 or so, I was a horror movie veteran, or so I thought
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The Unsung: Dr. John Besant, Coquette (1929)
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Read more: The Unsung: Dr. John Besant, Coquette (1929)Mary Pickford saw the writing on the wall. Despite a legendary career as a silent film actress, the introduction of sound in the late Twenties brought about an unexpected end to life in the limelight.
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Teenagers From Outer Space (1959): From the Ruthless Archives
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Read more: Teenagers From Outer Space (1959): From the Ruthless ArchivesOh boy, this is it. For decades I have fantasized about a movie that could be half as bad as some of Coleman Francis’s stinkers like The Beast Of Yucca Flats.