Author: Ezra Stead
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G(odzilla) Minus One
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Read more: G(odzilla) Minus OneWhen I was a wee lad, my father tells me, I fell asleep in protest of how long it was taking for the 1976 King Kong to get around to showing the monster. As I’ve grown older and matured in my cinematic tastes, I’ve come to appreciate the suspenseful restraint of classics like Jaws and…
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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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Confessions Of A Condiment King -or- Why Goat Revoked Ezra’s Key To The Break Room At Ruthless Towers
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Read more: Confessions Of A Condiment King -or- Why Goat Revoked Ezra’s Key To The Break Room At Ruthless TowersGreetings, citizens of Gotham! It is I, Buddy Standler, the Condiment King! You mayo may not have heard my fearsome moniker before…. Oh, come now, you mustard of me at least once or twice. Well, please endeavor to ketchup and follow along, for mine is a tale to relish! I may not be one of…
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge
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Read more: A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s RevengeThough my previous in-depth takes on movies such as Little Monsters, Beethoven, and Baby’s Day Out have provoked responses ranging from “imaginative,” to “a bit of a stretch,” to “outright pants-shitting lunacy,” there is not a movie buff worth their salt who disagrees that A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge is the…
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The Onion Field
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Read more: The Onion FieldThere is a certain sensibility to many 1970s Hollywood dramas, a style that has been imitated but rarely truly achieved in any subsequent era, a nihilistic feeling of doom and hopelessness that pervades at least until the sunshine beam of hope cracks through the darkness in the final scene (or not). It’s a blessing that…
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Striking Distance
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Read more: Striking DistanceTagline: They shouldn’t have put him in the water, if they didn’t want him to make waves. Entire Story in Fewer Words Than Are in This Sentence: All Cops Are Bastards, Except Willis. Homoeroticism: Much like “Dirty” Harry Callahan before him, and unlike the homoerotic heroes we know and love from classics like Commando or…
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Sleepwalkers (1992)
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Read more: Sleepwalkers (1992)Stephen King movies are such an institution at this point that it occurred to me to attempt this review in the style of the 80s Action reviews here at Ruthless, with many of the same questions applying to both. Corpse Count and Novelty Deaths obviously, and in the cheesiest ones (of which Sleepwalkers is certainly…
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65 (2023)
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Read more: 65 (2023)It is a rare and special thing to have an entire movie theater to oneself. My most memorable one was actually with a friend, when we saw a restoration of 2001: A Space Odyssey in an otherwise empty auditorium. I still cannot fathom why only two tickets were sold to such an amazing movie at…
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Ezra’s Last Minute Oscar Predictions: 2023
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Read more: Ezra’s Last Minute Oscar Predictions: 2023Best Picture: Everything Everywhere All At Once ✔ Best Director: Everything Everywhere All At Once- Daniel Scheinert ✔ Best Lead Actor: The Whale- Brendan Fraser ✔ Best Lead Actress: Everything Everywhere All At Once- Michelle Yeoh ✔ Best Supporting Actor: Everything Everywhere All At Once- Ke Huy Quan ✔ Best Supporting Actress: Black Panther: Wakanda…
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
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Read more: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)The Manchurian Candidate is one of the most endlessly fascinating paranoid thrillers ever created. Beginning its life as a 1959 novel by Richard Condon, it was adapted into a classic 1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer, which was subsequently taken out of circulation for 24 years after the assassination of JFK. Despite this quarter of…