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Klaus: (2019) Netflix
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Read more: Klaus: (2019) NetflixI do not particularly care for animated films, super hero films, or comic book films. However, as my Christmas Movie stocking is about empty, I could not ignore what was apparently yet another Netflix Christmas movie. So, I moved to my living room, made a small fire in the hearth, and fired up Klaus on…
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Christmas At Graceland: Home For The Holidays
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Read more: Christmas At Graceland: Home For The HolidaysMy career with Ruthless has been a good one with many high-water marks like Midnight Cowboy and my Christmas Movie reviews and related articles. There have also been a few low spots, but this movie is one ditch that I may not be able to crawl out of. Somehow, someway, Matt Cale talked me into…
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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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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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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…
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Elves (1989)
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Read more: Elves (1989)After watching Santa Claus (1959) and reviewing it, I was confident that things could not get any worse. With Santa’s Slay in the wings, I felt compelled to endure some other genuinely horrible movies, and it wasn’t long until I found and watched Elves. This miscarriage is available free on YouTube and it would be…
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Another Poop Story: The Desert Hamburger
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Read more: Another Poop Story: The Desert HamburgerOne does not simply enjoy gut bombs.
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Big Trouble In Little China (1986)
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Read more: Big Trouble In Little China (1986)Homoeroticism? None. Oh, boy, we need to talk. O.K., there was a weak attempt at redemption at the end when Jack didn’t even kiss his green-eyed girl goodbye, but by then all hope was lost. It’s complicated and confusing as we had an 80s action duo that usually meant love at first sight, but it…
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Blackadder’s Christmas Carol (1988)
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Read more: Blackadder’s Christmas Carol (1988)I was browsing through my 10th free trial of Netflix, looking for the 1974 version of Black Santa when I stumbled across this unbelievable find. When I looked at the title and the cast, I dropped everything, yes even the morning micturation would have to wait. Being unfamiliar with the BBC series Blackadder, I had…
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The Wet House
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Read more: The Wet HouseThe Wet House -A Documentary by Penny Woolcock (2002) This is an incredibly hard to watch hour-long documentary on housing formerly homeless Drunks. I don’t use the word Drunks flippantly or judgmentally, that’s exactly what these people are. There is not the slightest hint of rehab here and no pretense at all about these down-and-out…