Month: December 2023
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Free Fire
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Read more: Free FireNever has a film made in 2017 begged more to be reviewed in the 80s Action format, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. There were more bullets flying in this movie than there were sexual innuendos. Nothing else mattered, the quotes and one-liners in Free Fire put it into the rarefied air…
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Metal Heart: Seven Essential Life Lessons from an 80s Childhood
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Read more: Metal Heart: Seven Essential Life Lessons from an 80s Childhoodif you can’t Ride the Lightning, Bark at the Moon.
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Unforgiven (1992)
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Read more: Unforgiven (1992)For whatever reason, the Western became very sick in the 1970s, one of its shuddering last breaths taken when a scar-faced Clint Eastwood jumped behind a Gatling gun to let loose merry hell in the brilliant Outlaw Josey Wales. There was nothing of much note after that, the genre pretty much given the coup de…
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Masters of Disaster: Leslie Neilson in The Poseidon Adventure
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Read more: Masters of Disaster: Leslie Neilson in The Poseidon AdventureHe can hold his breath for a loooong time
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Christmas With the Kranks
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Read more: Christmas With the KranksA little eggnog with your Holocaust?
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Demons in the air -or- Why movies suck and wokism is everywhere
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Read more: Demons in the air -or- Why movies suck and wokism is everywhereDemons in the Air: Why Movies Suck, Wokism is Everywhere, Your Company is Sponsoring a Gay Pride Parade Even Though It Makes Swizzle Sticks and (finally!) Who’s Responsible? [Imagine flying through clouds in clear black and white while a comforting southern voice narrates] There is a demon that lives in the air. This demon calls…
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Dream Scenario
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Read more: Dream ScenarioIn the wide range of roles played by the great Nicolas Cage throughout his career, it is easy to focus on the iconic, larger than life characters, such as Castor Troy, Dracula, or indeed Nicolas Cage. There was also the era of Cage as unlikely action hero in the 90s and beyond, and he has…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 45
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 45Movie: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) “Mendacity is the society that we live in” –Brick Cat on a Hot Tin Roof starred one of the most gorgeous couples in cinema history, but it also contained some top-notch acting, notably from Newman and Burl Ives. There were many, many memorable scenes in this masterpiece,…
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Where’s My Froggy?: A Top 10 (ribbit) List
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Read more: Where’s My Froggy?: A Top 10 (ribbit) ListYou probably find it hard to believe but I write all my Ruthless articles surrounded by aromatic candles immersed in a freestanding claw foot bath. Well, I say write but what I actually mean is dictate. Indeed, all of my honey-coated missives are transcribed by a slightly drunken Catholic schoolgirl called Samantha. Her proofreading skills…
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It’s a Wonderful Life (1947)
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Read more: It’s a Wonderful Life (1947)It’s a Wonderful Life (1947) I rarely review movies that I genuinely detest, but I’m making an exception in this case. Think of this review as more of a warning than an assessment, if by some chance you have not watched this classic. I really dreaded re-watching the public domain issue of this pedestrian yawner…