Category: Rants
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Cheaper By the Dozen (2003)
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Read more: Cheaper By the Dozen (2003)Cheaper by the Dozen is easily the most militantly offensive, pro-family horror show I have seen this year.
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Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple
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Read more: Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s TempleJim Jones — preacher, con man, pervert, and, ultimately, instigator of mass murder/suicide — is not the sort of man I fear as I close my eyes.
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Sharkwater (2006)
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Read more: Sharkwater (2006)Tigers are killed for their penises so that pathologically insecure gentlemen might tap into some mystical power of seduction…
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Indiana Jones: Bullwhip for the White American Male
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Read more: Indiana Jones: Bullwhip for the White American MaleAmerican heroes, past and present, are usually defined by their rugged, can-do spirit; a reluctance to play the champion, sure, but once engaged, feisty, never-say-die creatures of indomitable certainty
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Russian Ark (2002)
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Read more: Russian Ark (2002)95 minute unbroken shot Russian film. Breathtaking Beauty. The Results? Empty theaters, indifference, deathly silence.
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Black History Month Special: How you duuurrrn!– a black man in a dress is not the bellwether of conspiracy…unless it is.
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Read more: Black History Month Special: How you duuurrrn!– a black man in a dress is not the bellwether of conspiracy…unless it is.Publicity still from Wypipo Tryna Roto-rooter Mama’s Back-do’ on the Down-low: Madea’s Colonoscopy scheduled for release Summer ’25. Okay, so Hollywood is choked with faegelen who creepily ogle black men like they would a turquoise broach once worn by Bette Davis. Okay, so what if Hollywood is run by Jews whose reputation for a) a…
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A Few More Ruthless Villains: 80’s Action Edition
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Read more: A Few More Ruthless Villains: 80’s Action EditionA Few Ruthless Movie Villains is a popular article that I wrote a few years ago. Time flies, and it is now past time to honor some more unsavory bad guys, this time, 80’s Action style. I will concentrate on the attributes or tags of villain, bully, and sheer nastiness. Most of the movies are…
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Top 10 Romantic Movies that won’t make you want to shoot up your local Ann Taylor
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Read more: Top 10 Romantic Movies that won’t make you want to shoot up your local Ann TaylorAll movies have a love story—I don’t say that in vain, in college I had two screenwriting professors (both working, agented and credited) who hammered the point home “Every movie has a love story—remember that, Mr. Cobb.” “I understand.” “Do you? Because I’m sixty pages into your college-student-with-a-shotgun script and I haven’t detected a note…
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id Cinema: The Genre We Love
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Read more: id Cinema: The Genre We LoveId Cinema: the genre we love without all the ‘narrative structure’ or ‘causal logic’ that just gets in the way of its fans feeling superior to everybody.’ Id Cinema is my term for that treatment of narrative that uses symbol and abstraction to get to the point, which is usually the interior revelation of a…
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The Phantom Menace: The 100 Things Wrong With it Edition
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Read more: The Phantom Menace: The 100 Things Wrong With it EditionMommy, Why are Jedis so gay?