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Gene Hackman: Legend
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Read more: Gene Hackman: LegendMean as a snake, even when he’s winking in your general direction. Pissed and getting pissier, with so much to prove, he’d just as soon knock out your teeth as be figured out.
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The Unsung: Reuben, Reuben, Reuben (1983)
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Read more: The Unsung: Reuben, Reuben, Reuben (1983)There are dogs and there are dogs, but there’s only one Reuben. An Old English Sheepdog of the most supreme vintage, Reuben (of 1983’s Reuben, Reuben.
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Assholes of the Cinema: Laurence Fishburne, Boyz N the Hood (1991)
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Read more: Assholes of the Cinema: Laurence Fishburne, Boyz N the Hood (1991)Furious T. Stiles. Okay, so maybe I made up the “T.” part, but when you’re that achingly close to Groucho’s Rufus T. Firefly in the Ridiculous Moniker Hall of Fame sweepstakes, you have to ad lib a little
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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.