Category: Reviews
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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.
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The Unsung: Kamp Komfort Clerk, Vacation (1983)
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Read more: The Unsung: Kamp Komfort Clerk, Vacation (1983)How he got to man the register at Colorado’s Kamp Komfort, we’ll never really know. Is he a seasonal employee, the only one who didn’t call in sick, or has the campground been his baby from the start?
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The Unsung: Mr. Bernstein, Citizen Kane (1941)
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Read more: The Unsung: Mr. Bernstein, Citizen Kane (1941)Everett Sloane” hardly sends chills down anyone’s spine, but when the book on 20th century cinematic art is written, he’ll be there, somewhere around the second or third chapter,
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The Unsung: Johnny Cab in Total Recall
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Read more: The Unsung: Johnny Cab in Total RecallBenny was barely human, but there was another Cabbie that was not even remotely human that had some of the most glorious and violent 2 minutes of showtime ever for someone who was just a mundane civil servant.
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Total Recall (1990)
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Read more: Total Recall (1990)Arnold was classic Arnold and he never disappoints us with his disdain for anything hetero. As the movie opened, he was naked, oiled and in bed with a very hot Sharon Stone on top of him, but he could not have cared less
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The Unsung: Cookie, in Deconstructing Harry (1997)
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Read more: The Unsung: Cookie, in Deconstructing Harry (1997)If there is a misunderstood and despised figure in American cinema, it is the prostitute. If they aren’t being reduced to a crude stereotype, they are granted little agency at all, and even less dignity