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The Unsung: William Shrike in Lonelyhearts
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Read more: The Unsung: William Shrike in LonelyheartsFor about half the running time of 1958’s Lonelyhearts, I had Robert Ryan’s William Shrike shot, tagged, and bagged as a true Asshole of the Cinema.
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The Americanization of Emily (1964)
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Read more: The Americanization of Emily (1964)One of the finest films ever made about war.
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The Hospital (1971)
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Read more: The Hospital (1971)Words that snap, sizzle, and exist far beyond the need to push the story forward.
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The Unsung: Frances Amthor [Kate Murtagh] in Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
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Read more: The Unsung: Frances Amthor [Kate Murtagh] in Farewell, My Lovely (1975)When we first encounter Frances Amthor, she’s surrounded by a bevy of young beauties at a makeshift table. Whores, to be exact, but don’t let her hear you say that. Four or five working girls, by my count, and from all appearances, twice as many sandwiches.
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The Unsung: Henry Northrup, Creepshow
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Read more: The Unsung: Henry Northrup, CreepshowAll men, at some point or another, have fantasized about killing the woman with whom they have shared a bed. Doubly so if those same sheets have been contaminated by the hazardous waste of marriage.
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Assholes of The Cinema: God, The Next Voice You Hear
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Read more: Assholes of The Cinema: God, The Next Voice You HearIt’s 1950. You’re God. Fine, you slept through a recent global conflagration and the Holocaust, but now you’re rested and ready to perform a miracle or two.
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The Unsung: The Existentialist in The Bachelor Party (1957)
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Read more: The Unsung: The Existentialist in The Bachelor Party (1957)Six minutes. An eternity in the sack for your average American male, but a mere blip when you’re trying to wrestle a movie away from Don Murray.
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Picture Snatcher (1933)
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Read more: Picture Snatcher (1933)The year is 1933. FDR has just replaced Hoover, the economy is still in the toilet, Hitler has consolidated power in Germany, and American women have declared that so long as money is tight and the job market even tighter, they’re going to fuck. A lot.
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Stomper, Death Wish II
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Stomper, Death Wish II“You believe in Jesus?” By god he does. And how. A cross to tell the world that while he’s raping, robbing, and selling smack to the neighborhood
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Fraker, Death Wish 3
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Fraker, Death Wish 3He is a leader of men. The pied piper of murderous psychopaths. A figure of near-legendary charisma and charm. He is Fraker. The only human being in the history of planet earth to unite the races in a common cause.