Category: Reviews
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S.O.B (1981): Standard Operational Bullshit (Hollywood version)
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Read more: S.O.B (1981): Standard Operational Bullshit (Hollywood version)Let’s get something straight. These youngsters who claim they want to work on movies? That’s not what they want. If, IF, you can get a job, it means long hours, hard work, terrible working conditions…
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Assholes of the Cinema: Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
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Read more: Assholes of the Cinema: Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)Miss Jean Brodie is, as she will utter a good dozen times in the course of this film, “in her prime.” She has sacrificed everything for her craft, and “her girls” – the young ladies attending the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland – are her raison d’etre.
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Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)
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Read more: Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)As the year draws to a close, we’re left with the annual end of year fireworks in the form of Christmas movie releases. One last splurge of films to goose box office receipts before the calendar flips over to the graveyard of films that is January.
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Mixed Nuts (1994)
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Read more: Mixed Nuts (1994)Here we have a Christmas Movie about a Suicide Hotline. Doesn’t this sound deliciously hilarious? The question is: As horrible and as soul-killing as this movie is, can the presence of Adam Sandler make it exponentially worse? Of course!
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The Gathering (1977)
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Read more: The Gathering (1977)The Gathering is a made for TV movie that aired on Dec. 04 1977, just a few years after the end of the Vietnam War.
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Mrs. Worthington’s Party-A.K.A. Noelle (2007)
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Read more: Mrs. Worthington’s Party-A.K.A. Noelle (2007)It is no secret that faith-based movies have taken their review lumps from both believers and non-believers alike. The harsh criticism heaped upon this genre of movie has been well deserved.
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The Unsung: Frederick, Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
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Read more: The Unsung: Frederick, Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)Frederick is tired. As an artist, he is beholden to a fickle public, yet he has nothing but contempt for those who buy his wares. “I don’t sell my work by the yard,” he sneers
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
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Read more: The Man Who Invented ChristmasIt is no secret that I love to review Christmas Movies. I am especially fond of the Charles Dickens timeless classic A Christmas Carol, and have watched and reviewed most of the renditions.
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Hard Boiled Dicks: Goodnight, My Love (1972)
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Read more: Hard Boiled Dicks: Goodnight, My Love (1972)You’ve seen the types in movies over the years. Tough relentless men, searching out the truth no matter where it takes them. They walk down the mean streets of New York, Denver, Seattle, and yes, LA. They are untouched by the corruption of society, keeping true to their own private code.
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Christmas Evil (1980)
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Read more: Christmas Evil (1980)This movie was originally billed as a routine Christmas Horror/Slasher flick. Somewhere along the way, it altered course. Christmas Evil became darker, creepier and more sinister as time passed. The character development elevated it into a Holiday Classic of incremental insanity. This was one of the strangest films I have ever seen.