Month: April 2023
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Jupiter Ascending (2015)
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Read more: Jupiter Ascending (2015)Sean Bean lives!
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Sisu (2022)
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Read more: Sisu (2022)“Sisu” – Silence is golden. Aatami (Jorma Tommila), the main character in Sisu, has two lines of dialogue in the film’s entire ninety-minute runtime. Both of them occur at the film’s end and neither of them define the word sisu. According to another character, Aino (Mimosa Willamo), sisu is a Finnish concept that cannot be…
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80’s Action Is No Laughing Matter: Part 2
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Read more: 80’s Action Is No Laughing Matter: Part 2Chuck Norris in Firewalker Loathed by the critics, Chuck’s first shot at comedy in 1986 was a box-office dud that helped finish off his benefactor Cannon Films. Good work, son. Plusses: I couldn’t really follow the premise, but we end up with two adventurers and a pretty bird trying to find buried treasure in Central…
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Requiem For A Dream
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Read more: Requiem For A DreamJust say no… to this movie!!
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80’s Action Is No Laughing Matter: Part One
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Read more: 80’s Action Is No Laughing Matter: Part OneYou’ve heard the sayings. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Variety is the spice of life. A change is as good as a rest. And so on. Well, for most actors it’s straightforward to enjoy a wide range of roles, but action stars do have a tendency to plough the same bullet-ridden furrow.…
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Quasi
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Read more: QuasiComedy troupe Broken Lizard has been trying to recapture the magic of their one legitimate hit – Super Troopers – for twenty-two years and five movies. Hoping the sixth time is a charm, they bring us Quasi. As in Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame. And they bring it to us via Hulu. That’s just…
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Raw Deal
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Read more: Raw DealForget for a minute that Arnold actually goes into a gay bar and throws makeup on a guy’s face
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Red Dragon
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Read more: Red DragonI read a book once called, Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay. Essentially the author takes four blockbuster movies and analyzes the scripts, explaining along the way why they were such moneymakers and cultural phenomenon. Alongside Terminator 2, Dances With Wolves and Thelma and Louise is a section dealing with The Silence of the…
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The Last Hurrah #4: Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein (1974)
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Read more: The Last Hurrah #4: Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein (1974)“My grandfather’s work was doo-doo! I am not interested in death! The only thing that concerns me is the preservation of life!” Mel Brooks’ 2021 autobiography All About Me! is an irritating, surprisingly poor read. It’s lame, politically correct, bland and devoid of interesting anecdotes. I don’t think there’s one word of criticism aimed at…
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The Last Hurrah #3: Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler (2008)
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Read more: The Last Hurrah #3: Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler (2008)Oh Mickey, you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow my mind, hey Mickey! Was the elfin Toni Basil singing about Mickey Rourke, handsome, talented bastard that he was? Probably not, but after his terrifically understated performance in the 1981 classic Body Heat as a reluctant advice-giving arsonist I guess it’s possible. At that point…