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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 21
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 21Movie: The Devil’s Advocate “Who are you carrying all those bricks for, God?” This speech is absolutely savage. And this: “Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He’s a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He…
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Blaxploitation #9: Foxy Brown (1974)
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Read more: Blaxploitation #9: Foxy Brown (1974)What the hell are these crazy cats up to? Off the top of my head, prostitution, drug dealing, plastic surgery, shoving a baby in a pram into the middle of a busy road, watching porn, threatening fratricide, fighting in the street, slapping an unsatisfied, erect penis, getting punched in the balls and cutting off a…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 20
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 20Movie: Life Of Brian Comedies are often overlooked when it comes to cinema greatness. Most memorable scenes are dramatic, and I understand this. However, there are comedy scenes like the ones in Airplane! or My Cousin Vinny that absolutely qualify for Memorable Scenes. There is one scene that indeed makes it as the most gut-busting…
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This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
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Read more: This Is Spinal Tap (1984)I often argue movies are made-up nonsense that have no effect on me. Like a lot of things I say, I’m probably on dodgy ground. Consider Spinal Tap. Good grief, the first watch was a minor revelation. Up until its chastening, palate-cleansing introduction in my mid-twenties, heavy metal could do little wrong. That’s why I…
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Memorable Movie Directors and Writers: Paul Schrader: Part 3
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Read more: Memorable Movie Directors and Writers: Paul Schrader: Part 3The underappreciated gem: The Mosquito Coast (1986) “How did America get this way?” Allie Fox (Harrison Ford) asks while driving around his hometown. “This place is a toilet.” The thing is, the pictures that unfold at the start of The Mosquito Coast don’t match his words. Everything looks like run of the mill. So why…
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Video Games and Online Casinos: How Are They Connected?
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Read more: Video Games and Online Casinos: How Are They Connected?The two spheres of gaming and online gambling are so similar. This similarity is visible in many cases. But the first thing that connects them is the best solution for entertainment. Maybe, there is no such person who does not like playing games, no matter whether they are video games or casino products. So, what…
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Concessions (2022)
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Read more: Concessions (2022)It is not news to anyone that brick and mortar everything has been on the ropes for years. The covid pandemic was just another gut punch to retail and nothing was hit much harder than the cinema movie houses. Multi-screened theaters are going the way of the drive-in movie and the shopping mall. The competition…
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Christine (1983)
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Read more: Christine (1983)I have three gods in my pantheon: Jim, Jimi and Herman. (That is, for those of you that are not American: Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Herman Brood.) All pantheons all need a degree of lesser gods, so there are: Stephen King, Freddy Mercury, Bobby Fischer, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Elon Musk [EDITOR’S NOTE: What is wrong…
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Memorable Movie Directors and Writers: Paul Schrader: Part 2
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Read more: Memorable Movie Directors and Writers: Paul Schrader: Part 2The biographies: Raging Bull (1980), Mishima (1985), Patty Hearst (1988) & Auto Focus (2002) Raging Bull is an essential watch, but it’s the kind of unsentimental, uncomfortable two hours that’s easier to admire than love. Jake LaMotta (De Niro) is an archetypal angry, destructive and self-destructive Schraderian character, although he stops short of being suicidal.…
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Memorable Movie Directors and Writers: Paul Schrader: Part One
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Read more: Memorable Movie Directors and Writers: Paul Schrader: Part OneMen Gotta Have Fun I’ve always believed religion fucks you up and thank God it did just that to Paul Schrader. Raised in a strict Calvinist household, he famously didn’t get to see a movie until his late teens. No matter, because once he dipped an intellectual, alienated toe into the celluloid pool the floodgates…