Author: Dave Franklin
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The Amusingly Bonkers: Part 6
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Read more: The Amusingly Bonkers: Part 6After the big success of his razor-wielding ladyboy turn in Dressed to Kill, Michael Caine put his hand up for another spell of horror. Amazingly, this one was written and directed by none other than Oliver Stone
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The Amusingly Bonkers: Part 5
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Read more: The Amusingly Bonkers: Part 5First things first: who thinks it’s a good idea to call an action movie Pentathlon? I bet a fair few people don’t even know what the hell one is.
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The Amusingly Bonkers: Part 4
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Read more: The Amusingly Bonkers: Part 4Faye Dunaway took a slightly less stellar path after her victorious turn in Network. She chose the trashy, red herring-filled Eyes, a box-office hit that mixed horror and thriller elements with unadulterated nonsense.
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The Amusingly Bonkers: Part 3
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Read more: The Amusingly Bonkers: Part 3How often do you find a good movie? I mean, what’s your success rate? Nowadays I guess mine’s pretty low.
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Cream Turning Sour: Episode One-Schwarzenegger
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Read more: Cream Turning Sour: Episode One-SchwarzeneggerSchwarzenegger peaked in the 1980s, his legacy built on iconic performances in The Terminator, Commando and Predator. These were lean, mean flicks.
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Starring debuts #29 : Kevin Bacon in Footloose (1984)
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Read more: Starring debuts #29 : Kevin Bacon in Footloose (1984)Thanks to the sensation of 1977’s Saturday Night Fever, sleek dance movies were hot shit during the eighties. 1980’s atypical, bloody dull yet very successful Fame kicked things off before the trend peaked in popularity.
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Top 10 Movies Not To Watch Before…
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Read more: Top 10 Movies Not To Watch Before…Some movies are so bland they pretty much leave your head as the end credits roll. Others contain such unnerving scenes… like the opening of Jaws … that they are never forgotten.
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The Not Quite #10: Heat (1995)
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Read more: The Not Quite #10: Heat (1995)Michael Mann has been making films for more than four decades. He’s no Kubrick, but the similarity of his painstaking approach means it’s pretty straightforward to get up to speed with his concise back catalog.
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Starring Debuts #28: Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass (1961)
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Read more: Starring Debuts #28: Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass (1961)Bud Stamper (a 23-year-old Beatty) and Deanie (a bewitching Natalie Wood) excel at capturing such sexual repression, desperate to get it on.
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See You in Disneyland
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Read more: See You in DisneylandTed Bundy would have to be one of my favorite serial killers. How can you not love the endlessly fascinating little scamp, given his yen for necrophilia and keeping severed heads as trinkets?