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Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
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Read more: Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)Tagline: Two men enter, one man leaves, unless there are special needs. Entire Story in Fewer Words Than Are in This Sentence: Max is banished for refusing to kill a grinning retard. Homoeroticism: Like in The Road Warrior, many men are dressed like they are going to a gay bondage convention, but the homoeroticism is…
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The Shawshank Redemption
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Read more: The Shawshank RedemptionFor a movie that featured busting a load in another man’s mouth as repeated punishment for (and get a load of this) resisting the idea of taking the load to begin with, The Shawshank Redemption struck me as surprisingly tame during its first hour. Though never shown, this was twice insinuated to the victimized protagonist…
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Banking on Creativity: How to Monetize Your Talents From Home
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Read more: Banking on Creativity: How to Monetize Your Talents From HomeEveryone could use more money, but not everyone is an artist or entertainer. If you have creative abilities, try turning your skills into cash online. With the right approach, you may soon be earning a living from what was once just a hobby. Music You no longer need to sign a record deal to make…
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Where to Get Help with Programming Assignment
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Read more: Where to Get Help with Programming AssignmentMost people nowadays have to juggle many tasks at once. Even students must work part-time or care for family members in addition to studying. These additional tasks might sometimes be overwhelming. So, every now and again, you can take a break while delegating part of your obligations to others. That is the topic of this…
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Fucked-Up Films #8: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
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Read more: Fucked-Up Films #8: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)Three movies have been based on Ed Gein, the Wisconsin wackadoodle that killed women and made tit-corsets and furniture out of their bodies. Psycho, Silence of the Lambs and the favorite of demented junior high boys: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. They went out to make a B-horror and accidentally created a monolith of human terror…
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Jaws
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Read more: JawsDUHHHHN-DUH DUHHHHN-DUH DUHN-DUH-DUHN-DUH-DUHN-DUH deeleee-dee! DUHN-DUH-DUHN DUH-DUHN Yes, I have it on good authority that’s how the famous danger theme of Jaws was written, by the same man who wrote the Star Wars score, John Williams…here’s a sample from his notebook entitled “Imperial March”: “BWAHM-BWAHM-BWAHM-teedee-BWAHM-teedee BWAHM (higher) BWAHM-BWAHM-BWAHM-diddliy-BWAHM-teedee-BWAHM (maybe a little ‘toodley-deedly’ here–ask George–too many BWAHMs?)”…
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DOOM Review (2016)
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Read more: DOOM Review (2016)DOOM Review (2016) Pictured: DOOM’s design document, in its entirety. Within the first minute of DOOM (a game which, like MORTAL KOMBAT, refers to itself in ALL CAPS, and who are we to argue?), you have freed yourself from the chains bolting you to a sarcophagus which was recovered from the depths of Hell. Then,…
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Upstream Color
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Read more: Upstream ColorIt was a nine-year wait between writer-director-producer-actor-composer Shane Carruth’s first film, Primer (perhaps the most realistic, challenging, and compelling time-travel movie ever made), and his masterpiece, Upstream Color, an even more complex and challenging movie, and certainly a more visually appealing one. It has now been nine years since the latter was released, with no…
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Starring debuts #19: Joe Spinell in Maniac (1980)
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Read more: Starring debuts #19: Joe Spinell in Maniac (1980)Joe Spinell was a hemophiliac who bled to death in 1989 in his early fifties. Throughout his 17-year film career, he overwhelmingly played bit parts, but had an extraordinary knack for picking the right projects. We’re talking the first two Godfather and Rocky movies, as well as Taxi Driver, Sorcerer, and Cruising. Pretty good, huh?…
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Tina! Bring Me The Axe!
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Read more: Tina! Bring Me The Axe!Cinema is littered with ridiculous turns, most of them delivered by Nic Cage. Talented as he is at scenery chewing (as anyone who’s seen Con Air or The Wicker Man remake will attest) I still don’t think his frequent hammy excesses can ever reach the level of Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest. This 1981 travesty…