Month: December 2022
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The Not Quite #6: The King of Comedy (1982)
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Read more: The Not Quite #6: The King of Comedy (1982)Scorsese’s cinematic partnership with De Niro is among the most legendary of the twentieth century, hemorrhaging up blood-soaked classics like Taxi Driver and Goodfellas. It wasn’t all plain slaying, though. Just take a look at the headache-inducing musical New York, New York in which De Niro argues nonstop with Liza Minnelli. Then there’s the redundant,…
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Batman Returns Again
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Read more: Batman Returns AgainSome people think Die Hard is a Christmas movie and I’m not here to contradict them though it’s in my every bone to do so, it’s Christmas, we should get along, somebody somewhere invented the idea that it was rude to ask these people exactly what the analytical criteria for a Christmas movie might be,…
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Spirited (2022)
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Read more: Spirited (2022)It’s award consideration season, so here’s my consideration. Synopsis A Christmas Carol, shaken not stirred, with a twist. Writing Like Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol has been done so many times that finding a fresh take on the story is a nearly impossible task. Writers Sean Anders (also directing) and John Morris manage to wring a…
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The Whale
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Read more: The WhaleGoing into Darren Aronofsky’s latest film The Whale, I prepared myself for at least one disturbing scene that would sear itself into my brain next to scenes from Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan. Like Stanley Kubrick, Aronofsky tends to make weird and dark movies, some of which feature scenes you cannot unsee. To…
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The Teacher Typos: Part 4
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Read more: The Teacher Typos: Part 4The corrupt: Jim McAllister in Election (1999) The perfect companion piece to the iconic Ferris Bueller. Here we get to see Broderick play a character at the opposite end of the spectrum. Bueller was an exuberant livewire beating the system but the vanilla, sensibly dressed McAllister in his nerdy car is the loser that always…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 33
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 33You’re a mean one, Mr. GrinchYou really are a heelYou’re as cuddly as a cactus, you’re as charming as an eel, Mr. GrinchYou’re a bad banana with a greasy black peel! You’re a monster, Mr. GrinchYour heart’s an empty holeYour brain is full of spiders, you’ve got garlic in your soul, Mr. GrinchI wouldn’t touch…
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Babylon (2022)
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Read more: Babylon (2022)It’s a rare occurrence when a movie or series shows something that stops every random thought in my head, every synapse focusing like a laser on the screen. I become Neo in The Matrix when Morpheus leaps to a distant building. “Whoa” is the only correct response. It happened the first time I saw the…
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The Teacher Typos: Part 3
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Read more: The Teacher Typos: Part 3The wrongly accused: Lucas in The Hunt aka Jagten (2012) Back in the 90s I covered a newspaper story in which a run of the mill, middle-aged sex offender was having a bit of a tough time. He’d been sent to clink for touching up some residents at a women’s shelter. In his favor, the…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 32
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 32It is no secret that I love my Christmas Movies. I have reviewed over 100 of them in the past decade. A Christmas Story is the #1 Christmas movie ever made and The Old Man is the most memorable Christmas Character to ever hit the big screen. With a bar this high, it is difficult…
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Syriana
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Read more: SyrianaWritten and Directed by Stephen Gaghan Starring: – Kayvan Novak as Arash – George Clooney as Bob Barnes – Amr Waked as Mohammed Sheik Agiza – Christopher Plummer as Dean Whiting – Jeffrey Wright as Bennett Holiday – Chris Cooper as Jimmy Pope Why on earth do I continue to see movies like Syriana? Why,…