Category: Features
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Evil Dead 2
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Read more: Evil Dead 21 hour 24 minutes, R for violence and gore Fair Value of Evil Dead 2: $6.00. It’s one of the classics of 80s horror comedy, not as memorable as it’s sequel, but a live action Warner Brothers cartoon of zombie slapstick. The Bruce Campbell Show: It’s all on the comic chops of the lead, Bruce…
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The Evil Dead (1981)
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Read more: The Evil Dead (1981)I am proud to announce that Ruthless Reviews will be immediately filling a big hole in its massive 3100+ movie review site, and this has been a long time coming. Devon, Ezra and myself will be reviewing one of the greatest franchises in camp horror movie history, the 3 Evil Dead movies by Sam Raimi.…
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Hamilton
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Read more: HamiltonHardcore history. Raise your hand if you know more about Alexander Hamilton than 1) his face is on the ten dollar bill, 2) he created the United States’ central banking system, and 3) was killed in a duel by Aaron Burr. If your hand is up, go try out for Jeopardy! If your hand is…
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July 4th 2020: Our Founding Father’s Edition
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Read more: July 4th 2020: Our Founding Father’s EditionToday we celebrate when the founding fathers cast off their imperial chains, but they didn’t break them. They took those same chains down to the auction block and wrapped them around their fellow human beings instead. It was a weird type of independence, their revolution. To become independent from a king, and abolish your taxes…
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Three Days of the Condor
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Read more: Three Days of the Condor1 hour 57 minutes, R for violence Fair Value of Three Days of the Condor: $6.00. This Sydney Pollack classic is a twisty and cynical spy film, one that prefigures much of the Jason Bourne films in the theme of ‘disavowed spy forced to live off his wits’. Crackling. Golden Age Cinema and the…
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Twenty Movies That Guys Love: Part 2
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Read more: Twenty Movies That Guys Love: Part 2Apocalypto (2006) Apocalypto is very different from the rest of the movies listed in this article and, frankly speaking, is rather different from practically any other movie you have watched before. It is a multi-genre film as it has elements of various different genres: starting from a historical movie and ending with a thriller. But…
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The Good, the Bad, and the Tender: An Analysis of the Humanity in Sergio Leone’s Cinema.
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Read more: The Good, the Bad, and the Tender: An Analysis of the Humanity in Sergio Leone’s Cinema.Smoke billows out of a destroyed confederate base. Lee Van Cleef’s angular faced Angel Eyes enters the wide frame, riding his obsidian black horse. He trots up a rocky hill, into the destruction. The late great Ennio Morricone’s haunting score starts silently, slowly rising throughout the scene. Angel Eyes leaves his horse behind, walking on…
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The Farmer’s Wife (1928)
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Read more: The Farmer’s Wife (1928)2 Hours 9 minutes Fair Value of The Farmer and His Wife: $0.00. In this early (1928) silent film, a young Hitchcock is both out of his element (mystery) and his medium (dialogue), and so this early drama is generic and basic, largely lacking in Hitchcock’s style. This is a snoozer. Summary of the Concept:…
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Vertigo (1958)
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Read more: Vertigo (1958)“The language of the camera is the language of our dreams.”-James Baldwin. No director was more fluent in that language than Alfred Hitchcock. Vertigo is the most conspicuous example of his fluency. Vertigo is a Pygmalion and Galatea story. The question in this case, who is Pygmalion and who is Galatea? When, is a better…
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20 Movies That Guys Love: Part One
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Read more: 20 Movies That Guys Love: Part OneNeedless to say, all guys are different and therefore like different things. However, there are also things that unite them all, and are intrinsic to almost all men regardless of their age, location, race, etc. This thing is the best guy movies of all time! This article seeks to provide you with a list of…