Author: John Welsh
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I, Spartacus (2024)
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Read more: I, Spartacus (2024)A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
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A Midwinter’s Tale (1995)
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Read more: A Midwinter’s Tale (1995)An underemployed actor stages a production of Hamlet in order to save a village church from the wrecking ball.
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Inherent Vice (2014)
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Read more: Inherent Vice (2014)Inherent Vice is what Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye would be like is the detectives were the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (Google it, Gen Xers).
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Man of Steel (2013)
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Read more: Man of Steel (2013)The triumph of production design over story, characterization or common sense.
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Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose (2023)
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Read more: Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose (2023)There is no mention of mongoose speech in the Wikipedia article, especially when it comes to prophesy, small talk, clairvoyance or in the making of long distance phone calls as Gef is apt to place.
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Hearts of the West (1975)
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Read more: Hearts of the West (1975)The mythology of the frontier plays a large role in American life. Whereas ancient civilizations had to dream-up the appearance of Zeus, Thor, Moses or Jesus, we have photographs.
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Wolfs (2024)
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Read more: Wolfs (2024)Here’s the deal: if there is a god, or supreme being or higher power as our friends in AA say, he enjoys a personal hatred for me. Why? I do not know, nor can I imagine.
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The Grifters (1990)
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Read more: The Grifters (1990)If you think about it, or being a Tarantino fan you don’t think at all, an actor is very much like a grifter, a con artist. The profession is to make you believe something that is not true.
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Postcards from the Edge (1990)
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Read more: Postcards from the Edge (1990)Carrie Fisher’s story is semi-autobiographical in the same sense Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is semi-autobiographical, perhaps even more so
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
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Read more: The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)The Ballad of Cable Hogue is a very good western, Peckinpah’s best after The Wild Bunch. Its theme is common to Peckinpah’s westerns, the end of the Wild West, Wild Times, the closing of the escape route easterners