Category: Movies
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Toilet Man, Death Wish 3
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Toilet Man, Death Wish 3There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t think of him. He’s maybe 15-20 seconds of the total film, but he’s left me with 30+ years of memories. Dark thoughts. Often a nightmare or two. And then, a warmth washes over me
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The Lion In Winter (1968)
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Read more: The Lion In Winter (1968)The Lion In Winter is the greatest movie ever to only win 3 Oscars, with another Academy slap in the face to Peter O’Toole. I guess that the Academy reveres retards the mentally and emotionally challenged (Charly and Forrest Gump) more than Saving Private Ryan and Peter O’Toole.
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Once is Not Enough (1975)
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Read more: Once is Not Enough (1975)January (Deborah Raffin) is coming home. Having spent many agonizing months rehabilitating at a plush, no-dollar-spared facility in the mountains of Switzerland, she is ready to return stateside into the loving arms of her father, Mike (Kirk Douglas). The very loving arms of her father. You see, January has a father complex
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Rounders (1998) Review: A High-Stakes Dive into Poker’s Underworld
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Read more: Rounders (1998) Review: A High-Stakes Dive into Poker’s UnderworldDiscover how Matt Damon and Edward Norton brought poker to life in Rounders (1998), a gripping tale of loyalty, risk, and redemption
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Chain Reaction (1996)
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Read more: Chain Reaction (1996)It is unclear in the film if Barkley is trying for fusion energy, or extracting hydrogen from water, but it makes no difference to the story. The man is doomed the instant he archives his goal, the Result.
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Interiors (1978)
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Read more: Interiors (1978)Happy Mother’s Day. Buried deep within the arteries of Interiors’ ever-hardening heart lies a cruel, yet unmistakable truth: until such time that one’s mother lies buried in the earth – irrevocably dispatched to that great undiscovered country – full adulthood cannot be reached.
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The Unsung: Arthur, Interiors (1978)
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Read more: The Unsung: Arthur, Interiors (1978)And so begins Woody Allen’s Interiors, one of cinema’s boldest declarations yet for the embrace of unchecked hedonism in the face of cerebral detachment. Where we are encouraged – required, even – to reevaluate everything
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Boiling Point (1993)
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Read more: Boiling Point (1993)Agent Jimmy Mercer, a divorced father, dreams of a closer relationship with his son. His girlfriend Vikki gave-up on dreams long ago. Red Diamond dreams of one last big score and a life with Mona, who knows dreams seldom come true.
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Diplomatic Courier (1952)
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Read more: Diplomatic Courier (1952)The MacGuffin here is the Soviet plans for the invasion of Yugoslavia, Tito was just a little too independent minded to suit Stalin, who was known to be very crabby at times. He already has East Germany, Poland and most of Eastern Europe so just wants to add to his collection
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Nosferatu (2024 Remake): Devon’s thoughts
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Read more: Nosferatu (2024 Remake): Devon’s thoughtsEggers’ Nosferatu is a rasping fever dream, acutely steeped in the imagery and iconology of plague and contagion. Eggers has made an elevated horror adaptation of the classic, one where the environment runs far ahead of the monster, who Eggers uses as sparingly as possible.