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Cocktail (1988)
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Read more: Cocktail (1988)Cruise will perhaps never equal the homoerotic explosion of Top Gun, but his indulgent turn in 1988’s Cocktail is close behind…
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Scenes From a Marriage
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Read more: Scenes From a MarriageAs one essay I read stated, Bergman has moved from “Does God exist? to Does love exist?”
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The Misunderstood: Lesbian Prison Guard, Caged (1950)
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Read more: The Misunderstood: Lesbian Prison Guard, Caged (1950)In a sadistic women’s prison teeming with lesbians, no one can hear you scream.
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
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Read more: The Life and Times of Judge Roy BeanJohn Milius is a fascist. Zen fascist, if we’re a slave to accuracy, but self-described and self-appointed nonetheless, having spent an entire career of bearded bravado lecturing lesser mortals on their effete passivity in the face of jackboots, and cock-first supremacy.
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Nashville (1975)
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Read more: Nashville (1975)Having seen this film at least five times, I’m only now coming to terms with its brilliance…
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If I Did It: Confessions of The Killer
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Read more: If I Did It: Confessions of The KillerIt took thirteen years, repeat viewings of The Naked Gun, and a hastily ghostwritten confession passing as fantasy, but I’ve finally come around to O.J. Simpson’s position.
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Goat: A Memoir by Brad Land
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Read more: Goat: A Memoir by Brad LandWritten as if the author were attempting to channel the very worst components of Ernest Hemingway and Cormac McCarthy.
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Gunga Din
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Read more: Gunga DinWhite Man’s Burden…
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Viva Knievel! (1977)
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Read more: Viva Knievel! (1977)In the same year that Star Wars was shattering box office records and shifting the culture to a new dimension of merchandising, special effects, and unending Mark Hamill mania, an old icon was inhaling the fumes of a once proud career
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Cruising (1980)
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Read more: Cruising (1980)Seriously, what the fuck is up with William Friedkin’s Cruising? That it’s homophobic is beyond dispute, but more than that, its greatest crime is against the very craft of filmmaking.