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Assholes of the Cinema: Liza Minnelli, The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
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Read more: Assholes of the Cinema: Liza Minnelli, The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)Ah yes, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. We hardly knew ye. Defined as “a young woman with quirky and eccentric personality traits, who exists primarily to serve as the love interest for a male protagonist
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Save The Midgets
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Read more: Save The MidgetsLittle people my ass….Midgets they are, and midgets they will always be.
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Hard Truths (2024)
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Read more: Hard Truths (2024)The greatest of cinematic sins, now and forever, is over-explanation. Tying A to B when C is a better bet. Reducing the complexity, nuance, and maddening ambiguity of life – any life – to simpleminded reasoning rooted in dime store psychology.
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Simon Birch
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Read more: Simon BirchDon’t lecture me at the movies. Dwarfism arguably the surest sign we have for an unloving, merciless god. To afflict any human being with a litany of curses – from the puffy chest, to the sausage-like fingers, to the unmistakable teetering walk of a Weeble.
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Maniac Cop (1988)
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Read more: Maniac Cop (1988)“Make it bigger than AIDS!” If a line of dialogue ever locked in a movie at the dead center of Reagan’s America, it’s that one. Once it hits, like that late-night slip into a warm bath, you know you’re home. Safe and sound, naturally
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Death Ship (1980)
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Read more: Death Ship (1980)February 10, 2025. Not quite D-Day, Pearl Harbor, or that dreadful afternoon in Dallas, but close. Damn close. Here, before me, was an image I never thought I’d see, and yes, the scene I never knew I’d been missing: George Kennedy.
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Concorde: Airport 79
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Read more: Concorde: Airport 79In many ways, Concorde: Airport 79 has always been the bastard child of the decade’s disaster series, but it just might be its most watchable.
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Wine Bottle, Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Wine Bottle, Death Wish 4: The CrackdownBy 1987, Paul Kersey was a shell of his former self. Sure, he hadn’t lost a step in terms of his desire to kill, nor his near-legendary taste for much younger women, but he was getting lazy. Incredibly lazy. Would the Paul of yore have resorted to MacGyver methods when a gun barrel to the…
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The Unsung: Civilian, Apocalypse Now (1979)
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Read more: The Unsung: Civilian, Apocalypse Now (1979)He is everyone and no one. A man of mystery, never to be pigeonholed or defined, yet so real, so tangible, he all but stands in for every G-man who ever lived. Soldier, bureaucrat, and yes, “civilian” (as he’s so named in the credits)
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The ABC’s of Midgets
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Read more: The ABC’s of MidgetsInside the Lollipop Guild.