Category: Movies
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Trail of Blood
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Read more: Trail of BloodA man camps. A man dies. It’s science.
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See You in Disneyland
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Read more: See You in DisneylandTed Bundy would have to be one of my favorite serial killers. How can you not love the endlessly fascinating little scamp, given his yen for necrophilia and keeping severed heads as trinkets?
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Challengers: Dripping with subtext
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Read more: Challengers: Dripping with subtextAfter reading the synopsis of Challengers, I was very much expecting a movie about tennis. Challengers is very much not about tennis
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Starring Debuts # 27: Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
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Read more: Starring Debuts # 27: Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)Keaton had loads of juicy roles throughout the seventies, including two Godfathers and all that excellent Woody Allen stuff, but the financially successful, bafflingly titled Goodbar was the first to truly put the focus on her. In many ways it’s a bad, overlong movie and I’d argue she’s miscast coz it sure is weird seeing…
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C’mon, Billy
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Read more: C’mon, BillyC’mon Billy, Come to me, You know I’m waiting, I love you endlessly, C’mon Billy, You’re the only one… These mania-infused lyrics are from a glorious PJ Harvey paean and it’s only when she goes on to reveal ‘having his son’ that I twig she isn’t singing about the late, great Billy Wilder. But even…
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A Sly Appreciation: Part 3
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Read more: A Sly Appreciation: Part 3Judge Dredd slaps on a codpiece, platform boots and some plastic shoulder pads, looking like a glum Gary Glitter unsure if he’s off to give a concert or play American football.
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A Sly Appreciation: Part 2
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Read more: A Sly Appreciation: Part 2First Blood is a fave, Part II isn’t, although I’d still argue it’s a must see. The sleek, adrenalin-pumping original, in which Rambo only killed one man, even managed to flirt with plausibility on occasion, but the sequel turns him into a rightwing comic book superhero
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Rocky (1976)
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Read more: Rocky (1976)Sylvester doesn’t write plot, Sylvester writes character, and it’s character that determines the ending.
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Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)
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Read more: Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)If such a man also happens to love women, booze, and snorting a little cocaine in Vegas, who’s to argue?
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A Sly Appreciation: Part One
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Read more: A Sly Appreciation: Part OneStallone is the only actor to have a number one film at the American box office for six decades in a row. I guess critics need to bear that in mind if they want to try to mock his acting, writing, directing and overall contribution to cinema.