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Assholes of the Cinema: Michael Landon in I Was a Teenage Werewolf
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Read more: Assholes of the Cinema: Michael Landon in I Was a Teenage WerewolfTony Rivers is a prick. Tremendous head of hair, yes, even as a tender high school student, but a prick nonetheless.
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3 Women (1977)
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Read more: 3 Women (1977)There really is no other filmmaker quite like Robert Altman. Outside of Kurosawa and Kubrick, no director has been so consistently defiant in his resistance of conventions and complacency of craft.
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Julia (1977)
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Read more: Julia (1977)Let’s say you’re Lillian Hellman. Brilliant writer, captivating intellectual, companion of the equally legendary Dashiell Hammett. You spend your days in a seaside manor, pounding away at assorted keys while smoking enough cigarettes to keep Philip Morris in silk sheets for a millennium
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Fat City (1972)
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Read more: Fat City (1972)Stockton, California, 1972. A land of dreams, provided said dreams fit comfortably within a narrow paper sack. Those at work, those chosen few, barely surviving
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The Unsung: Pete Seltzer in Pete ‘n’ Tillie
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Read more: The Unsung: Pete Seltzer in Pete ‘n’ TillieIt took nearly a half-century of cinematic devotion, but it’s finally come to pass. “It” being the sight – in full color Cinemascope, mind you – of Walter Matthau sitting naked at a piano, banging out the liveliest Ragtime ditty you’re ever likely to hear.
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My Kid Could Paint That (2007)
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Read more: My Kid Could Paint That (2007)Abstract expressionism has always been about the abdication of responsibility.
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Disco Godfather(1979)
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Read more: Disco Godfather(1979)PCP, disco, and the end of the NBA as we know it.
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Poop: A Love Story
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Read more: Poop: A Love StoryI fought the poop, and the poop won.
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One Hit Wonders of 80’s Action: Vol 8
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Read more: One Hit Wonders of 80’s Action: Vol 8Not worthy of a last name, but certainly worthy of recognition among the elite 80’s action one-hit wonders is Mary (Terrie Batson)
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One Hit Wonders of 80’s Action: Vol. 7
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Read more: One Hit Wonders of 80’s Action: Vol. 7Brandon Lee might be a famous name, but he’s a one-hit wonder in more ways than one. He had one actual box office hit with The Crow.