Author: Matt
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The ABC’s of Midgets
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Read more: The ABC’s of MidgetsInside the Lollipop Guild.
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
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Read more: The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)In 1974, Samuel Bicke (Sean Penn) took a gun to the Baltimore-Washington Airport with the intent of hijacking a plane, crashing it into the White House, and killing President Nixon.
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The Misunderstood: Jabba the Hutt, Return of the Jedi
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Read more: The Misunderstood: Jabba the Hutt, Return of the JediAt last, I can express it to my handful of readers, most of whom likely share similar concerns. Simply put, I mourn for Jabba. Yes, Jabba the Hutt, the most misunderstood figure in the annals of fantasy.
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40 Years of Death Wish 3: A Celebration
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Read more: 40 Years of Death Wish 3: A CelebrationThe Summer of 1985. While I was spending six weeks in Indiana with my maniacal grandmother, learning that yes, a 12-year-old can indeed conjure up vivid fantasies of mass murder, director Michael Winner, via MGM and Golan-Globus, was putting the final touches on the greatest motion picture ever released.
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Assholes of the Cinema: Baptist Medical Center, Death Wish 3
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Read more: Assholes of the Cinema: Baptist Medical Center, Death Wish 3Let’s be clear: if you’re actively dying, suffering any type of heart attack from mild to fuck it, or bleeding from the orifice of your choosing, do not, under any circumstances, walk through the sliding doors of Baptist Medical Center
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Toilet Man, Death Wish 3
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Toilet Man, Death Wish 3There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t think of him. He’s maybe 15-20 seconds of the total film, but he’s left me with 30+ years of memories. Dark thoughts. Often a nightmare or two. And then, a warmth washes over me
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Once is Not Enough (1975)
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Read more: Once is Not Enough (1975)January (Deborah Raffin) is coming home. Having spent many agonizing months rehabilitating at a plush, no-dollar-spared facility in the mountains of Switzerland, she is ready to return stateside into the loving arms of her father, Mike (Kirk Douglas). The very loving arms of her father. You see, January has a father complex
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Interiors (1978)
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Read more: Interiors (1978)Happy Mother’s Day. Buried deep within the arteries of Interiors’ ever-hardening heart lies a cruel, yet unmistakable truth: until such time that one’s mother lies buried in the earth – irrevocably dispatched to that great undiscovered country – full adulthood cannot be reached.
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The Unsung: Arthur, Interiors (1978)
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Read more: The Unsung: Arthur, Interiors (1978)And so begins Woody Allen’s Interiors, one of cinema’s boldest declarations yet for the embrace of unchecked hedonism in the face of cerebral detachment. Where we are encouraged – required, even – to reevaluate everything
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The Unsung: Kamp Komfort Clerk, Vacation (1983)
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Read more: The Unsung: Kamp Komfort Clerk, Vacation (1983)How he got to man the register at Colorado’s Kamp Komfort, we’ll never really know. Is he a seasonal employee, the only one who didn’t call in sick, or has the campground been his baby from the start?