Category: Movies
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Snow White (2025)
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Read more: Snow White (2025)If you saw a preview of Snow White, you were probably as nervous as I was about seeing it. I saw what the CGI dwarves looked like and my thought was if the filmmakers were willing to make a bizarre choice like using CGI dwarves instead of actual human beings to portray the dwarves, what…
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The Fly (1958)
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Read more: The Fly (1958)I have been asked before what horror movie was the scariest or the best of all time, and for this I would have to go with Alien for sheer competence, terror and technical excellence. However, if you are merely 9 years old, and quite the naive little impressionable twat, this movie terrified me like nothing…
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Escape From Germany (2024)
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Read more: Escape From Germany (2024)Escape From Germany is a film made by and for the faithful, the Latter Day Saints. The Mormons have a history of escapes. They had been driven out of New York and Ohio, settling in Missouri.
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Expected blockbusters of 2025: A complete guide to the most anticipated premieres
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Read more: Expected blockbusters of 2025: A complete guide to the most anticipated premieresThe year 2025 will be a good one for movie blockbusters. We are getting more Marvel movies, which have died down a little after the Avengers series, and a Minecraft movie, so this is definitely something to look forward to. This year’s movies are a bit like live roulette offers on Australian market – you…
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The Gene Hackman Chronicles, Volume II: The Domino Principle (1977)
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Read more: The Gene Hackman Chronicles, Volume II: The Domino Principle (1977)When there are only two reasons to watch a movie, one of them better be the brutal murder of Mickey Rooney. The Domino Principle obliges. Not once, but twice, as if the cinema gods knew that in order to survive 100 of the most inexplicable minutes ever committed to celluloid, they’d have to show that…
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Black Bag (2025)
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Read more: Black Bag (2025)Who is going to be the next James Bond? It’s been four years since Daniel Craig’s Bond died in No Time to Die and the 007 wheel of who’s-the-next-Bond is still spinning with no end in sight.
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The Unsung: Beth Jarrett, Ordinary People (1980)
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Read more: The Unsung: Beth Jarrett, Ordinary People (1980)In addition to ushering in the unchecked era of narcissistic self-regard, mushy, feminized therapeutic healing, and an undying cynicism about the Academy Awards, Robert Redford’s Ordinary People remains one of cinema’s undisputed heavyweights of dubious character loyalties and directorial sympathies
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Novocaine (2025)
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Read more: Novocaine (2025)If you’ve ever wondered what typecasting is, I give to you Jack Quaid. Quaid is one of the stars of Amazon Prime’s series The Boys. In The Boys, Quaid plays a nerdy, lovesick man putting himself in harm’s way for the girl he loves.
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 27
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 27With movies like Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks accomplished the impossible, movies that could never be made today. The Frankenstein movie contained one of the greatest supporting casts ever, but one cameo appearance trumped all the rest.
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The Gene Hackman Chronicles, Volume I: Loose Cannons (1990)
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Read more: The Gene Hackman Chronicles, Volume I: Loose Cannons (1990)I would watch Gene Hackman read from a phone book. Or take a nap. Hell, I’d even stare intently while Gene took a shit. So it stands to reason that when presented with the opportunity to watch one of Hollywood’s finest actors turn his talents to comedy, I would welcome the chance as if being…