Category: Movies
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The Amateur (2025)
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Read more: The Amateur (2025)The hero of our hero’s journey is CIA agent Charlie Heller (Rami Malek). He’s not a Jason Bourne or James Bond type of agent, he’s the kind of agent that sits at a desk and feeds information to the Bournes and Bonds
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When Oscar Shit the Bed: Crimes of the Heart (1986)
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Read more: When Oscar Shit the Bed: Crimes of the Heart (1986)The nominations for Sissy Spacek (Best Actress) and Tess Harper (Best Supporting Actress) are inexplicable enough, but to learn that this slapdash, magnolia-scented monstrosity also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981?
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Great Moments, Bad Cinema: Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
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Read more: Great Moments, Bad Cinema: Picking Up the Pieces (2000)Ever the completist, I decided one lonely evening to finally watch 2000’s Picking Up the Pieces, a rare bird of a picture where Woody Allen appeared as an actor, but neither wrote nor directed.
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The Unsung: Annette, The Last Showgirl (2024)
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Read more: The Unsung: Annette, The Last Showgirl (2024)In a movie that, like Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, accurately validates the idea that the best stories are not about the ascent, but rather the fall, the ultimate privilege is in the further realization that absent the broken, we’d have no real stories to tell.
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Companion (2025)
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Read more: Companion (2025)What does the seclusion of weekend getaways and informal get-togethers typically entail for the horror and suspense genres? Idyllic intimacy yielding to cabin fever, perhaps? Madness seeping through the facade of congeniality?
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Moon (2009)
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Read more: Moon (2009)Sam Rockwell stars in one of the best science fiction films in years.
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Brewster McCloud (1970)
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Read more: Brewster McCloud (1970)As the years slip away and the specter of death looms, nostalgia takes over with increasing ferocity. There were times when it merely tapped me on the shoulder as a subtle reminder of better days.
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Shredded (2024)
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Read more: Shredded (2024)The term “shredded” is a surfing term, a term that means a wave that is ridden aggressively, and to its fullest. However, this film is about two human beings who have been shredded by unrelated medical catastrophes that have devastated their lives.
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 49
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 49Movie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Holy Grail is the greatest comedy ever made. The encounter with King Arthur and the Black Knight was inspired.
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Death of a Unicorn (2025)
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Read more: Death of a Unicorn (2025)“Say No More“ Back in 2011, a friend of mine insisted I needed watch Cabin in the Woods. I asked what it was about and all they would tell me was “bloodthirsty unicorn.” No context. Not even a complete sentence. Just two words that hooked me in and promised everything. Fourteen years later, that promise…