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A Cadaver Christmas (2011)
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Read more: A Cadaver Christmas (2011)Tagline: Never leave a mess unclean A Cadaver Christmas (2011) Ho-Ho-Ho. What is Christmas without cadavers, Zombies, blood, guts and mayhem? No, I’m not talking about Black Friday at Wal-Mart, I’m talking about this wonderful movie, A Cadaver Christmas. How perfectly fitting to celebrate the upcoming sacred holiday by watching Zombies, instead of arguing over…
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Scrooge (1935)
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Read more: Scrooge (1935)While the Alastair Sim version of A Christmas Carol (1951) is still the B&W standard bearer for the genre, this lesser known version again brings us back to the dark, creepy and scary aspect of this timeless story. Sir Seymour Hicks was a consummate Scrooge, so bent over, joyless, disagreeable and Ruthless, that we can…
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A Christmas Carol (1938)
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Read more: A Christmas Carol (1938)At Ruthless, we have our heroes, the Arnolds, the Kinskis and Herzogs, but one of our favorite unspoiled characters is that of one Ebeneezer Scrooge. We love him for what he was, not what he was to become; another casualty of religious guilt and coercion. This 1938 version originally cast Lionel Barrymore, but health…
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Everest
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Read more: EverestI have watched numerous Everest and K2 documentaries and am firmly in the Matt Cale camp of mountain climbing. We both look on these climbers as a bunch of narcissistic born-rich fools who deserve to die because they have been polluting these beautiful and majestic mountains for decades with their corpses and O2 bottles. There…
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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Read more: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.It has been a while since I’ve been excited about a new movie, but the other day I saw one that was pretty slick and very watchable. The Man From U.N.C.L.E is a delightful 60’s time period movie from the great Guy Ritchie. Yep, he’s the guy that did Snatch, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking…
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Danny Collins
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Read more: Danny CollinsCan’t decide between naughty or nice
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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Read more: The Second Best Exotic Marigold HotelThe Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was aptly named, riding on the coattails of a moderately successful and enjoyable movie, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which was a surprise box office hit. Although it was not essential to see the first Marigold Hotel movie to understand and enjoy tolerate the second movie, it is recommended…
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The Blues Brothers (1980)
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Read more: The Blues Brothers (1980)Tagline: They’ll never get caught. They are on a mission from God. The Blues Brothers, starring Saturday Night Live legends Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, is not the best movie ever made, but it may be the most fun to watch film ever released. I am reviewing the 25th Anniversary DVD Version which includes one…
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Ida (2014)
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Read more: Ida (2014)I thought that I had already watched the two best movies of the year in Birdman and Boyhood, but after watching this beautiful and haunting film, I’m not so sure. Ida was set in the drab and joyless country of Poland, around 1962, at the height of the Cold War. Ida was a young woman…
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The Muppets Christmas Carol (1992)
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Read more: The Muppets Christmas Carol (1992)Anyone who has been reading Ruthless Reviews faithfully knows that I have already reviewed a half-dozen versions of this Christmas classic. The Muppets animation hybrid is the most underwhelming of the lot of remakes of the Dickens novel that I have reviewed. The Muppets Christmas Carol (1992) takes a slightly different approach to the Carol,…