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The English: Lost In A Wilderness
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Read more: The English: Lost In A WildernessThe gross silliness of Heaven’s Gate reminded me to always cast critical eye on even Westerns. They should not get a go-bye simply because I love Westerns, that’d just be goofy. Although goofy is in vogue these days, it’s best to subscribe to the old values. So, when Amazon Prime offers a Western staring Emily…
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Nasty Fuckers: Part 2
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Read more: Nasty Fuckers: Part 2Brad Whitewood Sr. reveals his true colors in At Close Range (1986) It takes more than an hour of this very nicely photographed neo-noir crime pic for Brad Sr. (Christopher Walken) to show he’s a nasty fucker. Up until then, he’s merely a thief, the leader of a tightly knit bunch of rural crims that…
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The Deaths of Death Wish 3
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Read more: The Deaths of Death Wish 3Every death from the greatest movie ever.
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My Year In Movies: 2022 Edition
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Read more: My Year In Movies: 2022 Edition“My Year in Movies – 2022 Edition” – Was I talking about gas? It’s been a couple years, but we’re finally back to the film world resembling something like pre-Covid times. This is good news, because the world outside of film continues to resemble a horror show. As I said back at the end of…
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Andrew Tate: Hoisted By Hubris
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Read more: Andrew Tate: Hoisted By Hubris2022 has been a banner year for celebrities setting themselves on fire. We had Will Smith’s career-ending stupidity at the Oscars and the never-ending story of the world’s richest fool, Elon Musk. As always, being an election year, there were a whole slew of Trump worshiping nitwits who all went down in a blaze of…
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Nasty Fuckers: Part One
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Read more: Nasty Fuckers: Part OneHeroes are OK but when it comes to memorability, villains tend to piss all over ’em. This glaring divergence has long plagued creators and can be traced back at least as far as Shakespeare. Take The Merchant of Venice. Shylock’s vengeful demand for a pound of flesh ensures his status as an all-time bad guy,…
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Squishier Things
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Read more: Squishier ThingsSince it’s apparently that time of year again to get all squishy about family and ‘gezelligheid’ and all that shit, I thought I’d make a little list of my favorite end-of-year movies, in no particular order. Enjoy. The Hobbit Once, a long, long time ago in a universe far, far away, I rented a VCR…
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White Noise (2022)
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Read more: White Noise (2022)It’s award consideration season, so here’s my consideration. Synopsis Won’t anyone pay attention to what’s really happening? Writing I don’t know what’s really happening. The film has a very distinct three act structure that would have been better suited as vignettes. The first act introduces Professor Jack Gladney (Adam Driver), an expert in Adolf Hitler…
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The Lighthouse
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Read more: The LighthouseAfter virtually giving up on movies this year, I was thrilled with Parasite and even more so with The Lighthouse. There are no words to adequately describe how terrifyingly haunting and beautiful this movie was. This film will wreck you. It is David Lynch, only on steroids, and with some Kubrick and Lovecraft for good…
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The Wolf of Wall Street
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Read more: The Wolf of Wall StreetWhen hiring a midget for your office party, please, for chrissakes, hire the one willing to show his cock.