Month: October 2022
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Memorable Directors: Brian De Palma: Part 2
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Read more: Memorable Directors: Brian De Palma: Part 2The Heaven’s Gate moment: Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) Do you ever avoid a flick because the critics pissed on it? You know, stuff like Ishtar and Battlefield Earth. The laughable quality of these efforts is so taken for granted that they’re only supposed to be trundled out if a snigger fest is required. I…
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Memorable Directors: Brian De Palma: Part One
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Read more: Memorable Directors: Brian De Palma: Part OneThere’s only one way to describe Brian De Palma’s five-decade-long career: all over the shop. There have been glorious artistic highs, far too many Hitchcockian homages, the odd mainstream megahit, a sprinkling of high-profile awards, condemnation for tawdry subject matter, a pronounced tendency to work with the same collaborators both in front of and behind…
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Armageddon Time
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Read more: Armageddon Time“Armageddon Time” – What was I saying? The IMDb synopsis of Armageddon Time is “A deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.” The movie poster for Armageddon Time features the tagline “The end of an era. The beginning of everything.” Such grandiose statements sound like…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 16
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 16Movie: Unforgiven Here at Ruthless we love our Westerns and especially the shoot-out scenes where the bad guys get their just due. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West did their showdown scenes in the brilliant sunshine, but the final showdown in Unforgiven was on a dark,…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 15
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 15Movie: The Sting It is no secret that Paul Newman was one of the most charismatic and talented actors that ever lived. The Sting was a superior movie to his other iconic buddy movie, Butch Cassiday and the Sundance Kid, and the reason was unforgettable and quite satisfying scenes like the poker game on the…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 14
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 14Movie: The Usual Suspects The lineup scene in The Usual Suspects may be only the second-best scene in the movie, but is easily the most recognizable of the film. The scene begins with five men trudging into a police station’s lineup room, the men clearly annoyed at this inconvenience. Narrating the scene is Verbal (Kevin…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 13
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 13Movie: The Shining A great movie like Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is made of practically nothing but memorable scenes, but The Shining in particular has moments instantly called to mind just by hearing the title. Many viewers immediately think of the elevator full of blood, or the terrifying twins beckoning young Danny Torrance (Danny Lloyd)…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 12
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 12Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 11
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 11Movie: The Grapes Of Wrath Charles Dickens saw it clearly. ”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” In 1933 a group of businessmen unhappy with FDR’s policies enlisted the aid of retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler…
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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
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Read more: Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile“Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” – You’re right, no human being would stack books like that. Raise your hand if you’ve heard of the children’s book Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. Okay…raise your hand if you’ve heard of the upcoming film of the same title. Ummm…raise your hand just so I know you are still conscious. Phew! You had…