Category: Movies
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Chowchilla (2023)
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Read more: Chowchilla (2023)Let’s unbury the lead before diving into the review itself: During the summer of 1976, in the Central Californian agricultural town of Chowchilla, twenty-six children and their adult bus driver were kidnapped by three armed men.
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Un Coeur en Hiver (1992) (A Heart In Winter)
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Read more: Un Coeur en Hiver (1992) (A Heart In Winter)I was asked what was a great movie about love? Now I’m no expert on love, but I do recognize great films every once and awhile. Check out this magnificent French film
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The Substance (2024)
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Read more: The Substance (2024)Writer-director Coralie Fargeat made a big, bold, bloody splash with her 2017 debut feature Revenge, a smart, feminist take on the rape-revenge thriller that is stylish, riveting, and extremely violent
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Assholes of the Cinema: Mickey Rooney, Babes in Arms (1939)
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Read more: Assholes of the Cinema: Mickey Rooney, Babes in Arms (1939)So yes, Mr. Rooney was always and forever a man-child in the promised land, but what he never lacked was nerve. Appalling, grating nerve, to be frank.
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Postcards from the Edge (1990)
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Read more: Postcards from the Edge (1990)Carrie Fisher’s story is semi-autobiographical in the same sense Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is semi-autobiographical, perhaps even more so
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Top 10 Movie/TV Quotes Worth Living By
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Read more: Top 10 Movie/TV Quotes Worth Living ByTake a seat. Wait your turn. Tell the nice lady thank you. Don’t drink and drive. Wear pants. We’ve built ourselves into a prison of written and unwritten rules.
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The Beast Of Yucca Flats (1961)
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Read more: The Beast Of Yucca Flats (1961)The Beast Of Yucca Flats is a mind-melting mess of a horror movie created by the one and only Coleman Francis. This movie is only 54 minutes long, but it seems to drag on for hours
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
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Read more: The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)The Ballad of Cable Hogue is a very good western, Peckinpah’s best after The Wild Bunch. Its theme is common to Peckinpah’s westerns, the end of the Wild West, Wild Times, the closing of the escape route easterners
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10 Films That Ruined the World
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Read more: 10 Films That Ruined the WorldMatt Cale hates cinema. As obvious a pick as it is, the Gump film nonetheless hits the trifecta of reprehensible cinema: demonizing social awareness and activism, lionizing apathy and outright retardation, and reducing all of American history to quips, clips, and humorous anecdotes
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When Oscar Shit the Bed: King Solomon’s Mines (1950)
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Read more: When Oscar Shit the Bed: King Solomon’s Mines (1950)Now imagine that what follows is a 103-minute motion picture where, for a good 102 of those minutes, no mines are seen. Not a Solomon in sight, let alone a King.