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Blaxploitation #5: Three the Hard Way (1974)
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Read more: Blaxploitation #5: Three the Hard Way (1974)What the hell are these cats up to? After watching this mess, I only have the vaguest of ideas. I think there are three black dudes (Williamson, Brown and Kelly), who somehow know each other, and they team up to tackle a white supremacist’s genocidal plan to poison the water supply so that only the…
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Pliers, Pussies & the Enduring Class of John Vernon
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Read more: Pliers, Pussies & the Enduring Class of John VernonIn the flat blaxploitation parody I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, baddie John Vernon prickles at the insinuation that playing an exploitation villain is beneath him. “Lots of famous people have done exploitation movies,” he tells the hero before listing the likes of Shelley Winters and Angie Dickinson. OK, mate, fair point, but I doubt you…
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Nightmare Alley-Devon’s Slant
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Read more: Nightmare Alley-Devon’s Slant2 Hours 30 Minutes, R for Face-Smashing and Eating Live Poultry Fair Value of Nightmare Alley: $18.00. This remake stands tall and proud as the equal of the original 1947 noir classic, yet is still distinct and memorable in wholly different ways. What in this world is so depraved and terrible as the Geek? That…
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Christmas Twister (2012)
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Read more: Christmas Twister (2012)Unless I am struck down with a Paul to Damascus type inspiration, this will be my last Christmas movie review of the season. It is just as well because the pickings this year are almost non-existent. I refuse to watch and review Home Sweet Home Alone, that is just not going to happen. Ditto for…
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Starring debuts #8: Alan Rickman in Die Hard (1988)
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Read more: Starring debuts #8: Alan Rickman in Die Hard (1988)You know Alan Rickman’s done his job remarkably well in Die Hard when he plunges to his death from a high-rise building and we feel a bit sad. Unlike Kong, it wasn’t beauty that killed the charismatic beast, but a combination of old-fashioned greed and sheer bad luck. Rickman plays Hans Gruber, a debonair German…
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Blaxploitation #4: Boss Nigger (1975)
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Read more: Blaxploitation #4: Boss Nigger (1975)What the hell are these cats up to? Two fearsome bounty hunters Boss (Williamson) and Amos (Martin), who kill up to five outlaws at a time, take a break from their day job to forcibly outwit the piss-weak, double-dealing mayor of San Miguel and become the law. As you can imagine, the vast majority of…
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A Merry Friggin’ Christmas (2014)
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Read more: A Merry Friggin’ Christmas (2014)I’ve been reviewing Christmas movies for Ruthless since 2006, with just a couple of reviews at first, but then reviewing them in earnest since 2013. I knew that this day would eventually come. The well has run dry for any Christmas movie that is remotely watchable. Oh, it has been fun to mock the really…
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
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Read more: Santa Claus Conquers the MartiansI stumbled upon this heaping pile of garbage by googling, “Worst holiday movies ever.”
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Cruising For A Few Good Movies
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Read more: Cruising For A Few Good MoviesIn the atrocious Interview with the Vampire the effete Tom Cruise tells his supernatural buddy Brad Pitt: “Life without me would be even more unbearable.” Well, kids, whaddya reckon? Is Our Tom telling the truth? Can you imagine your existence sans Maverick or never having witnessed all those heroic dashes with his choppy hands? No…
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Merry In-Laws (2012)
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Read more: Merry In-Laws (2012)I have been watching and reviewing Christmas Movies for well over a decade now. Ruthless Reviews has the largest collection of these reviews on the internet, most written by yours truly, so I consider myself an expert on the genre. The pickings become slimmer every year, and great new Christmas movies like the FX version…