Category: Classics & Hitchcock
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The Quiet Man
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Read more: The Quiet ManWayne huffs and puffs about the Irish countryside, piss-drunk and full of rage over not being able to throw Maureen O’Hara down on the bed and have his swaggering way with her.
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Decoy: Featuring Jean Gillie as classic noir’s hardest, greediest and most daring femme fatale
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Read more: Decoy: Featuring Jean Gillie as classic noir’s hardest, greediest and most daring femme fataleAs the take-no-prisoners Margot, Jean Gillie is amazing to watch… tougher than Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Greer, Joan Bennett or even snarling Ann Savage in Detour.
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Barry Lyndon
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Read more: Barry Lyndon“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport.”
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
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Read more: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)The Manchurian Candidate is one of the most endlessly fascinating paranoid thrillers ever created. Beginning its life as a 1959 novel by Richard Condon, it was adapted into a classic 1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer, which was subsequently taken out of circulation for 24 years after the assassination of JFK. Despite this quarter of…
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Paths Of Glory (1957)
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Read more: Paths Of Glory (1957)There are many great anti-war films. From the most horrific war movie ever, Come And See, to the preparing for a war already lost in Tigerland, these films are riveting. War is the most cruel, vicious and inhuman of man’s endeavors, but never have such endeavors been foisted upon a country’s own soldiers as was…
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Ruthless (1948)
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Read more: Ruthless (1948)Bam Margera wept.
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Breaker Morant
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Read more: Breaker Morant‘Military justice’ about says it all.
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A Face In The Crowd (1957)
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Read more: A Face In The Crowd (1957)A Face In The Crowd made me sick. I hated everything about it. I wanted to reach through the flatscreen and punch Andy Griffith’s grinning mug. Why? Because every minute of this movie reminded me of our sitting Idiot In Chief, Donald Trump. This movie was made in 1957 and was as white as Wonder…
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Duel In The Sun (1946)
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Read more: Duel In The Sun (1946)David O. Selznick wanted another big blockbuster like Gone With the Wind. He had room for plenty more Oscars on the ego shelf where his awards were available for all to ”ooh and aah” and offer praise like, ”You did a hell of a job on that one, Mister Selznick”. There for all to see,…
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Nosferatu (1922)
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Read more: Nosferatu (1922)It has now been a century since the release of the first real vampire movie, F.W. Murnau’s somewhat loose adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. In Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, the names of characters were changed, along with many plot details, and still there was a lawsuit brought by Stoker’s heirs, and a…