Category: Movies
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Mulholland Drive: An Analysis by (old) Team Ruthless
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Read more: Mulholland Drive: An Analysis by (old) Team RuthlessThe great debate (won by Erich). -or Nostalgia Week for Old Ruthless
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Road House
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Read more: Road HouseEditor’s Note: The re-make of Road House is now streaming on Amazon Prime. It stars the great Jake Gyllenhaal and is supposedly fantastic. It’s not. Tagline: “Dalton’s the best bouncer in the business. His nights are filled with fast action, hot music and beautiful women. It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it.”…
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Used Cars (1980)
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Read more: Used Cars (1980)This magnum opus from Kurt Russell’s heyday reminds one of a time when movies existed seemingly for their own sake; rather than a line in a ledger, they were works of art instead of an appeal for relevance, a “statement” of some sort, or a way to polish one’s ego with a useless Academy Award…
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Icky Sex in Movies: Part 3
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Read more: Icky Sex in Movies: Part 3We all like a bit of encouragement, especially in the bedroom department. Perhaps such reassurance becomes even more important during marriage when the same-old, same-old threatens to turn those vows before God stale
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Army of Shadows (1969)
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Read more: Army of Shadows (1969)On its surface, this is a precise examination of the French Resistance, shot in a documentary style on location.
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Icky Sex in Movies: Part 2
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Read more: Icky Sex in Movies: Part 2Floating boobies: Jess and Kady Tyler in Butterfly (1982) This critically scorned, box-office disaster gives us the grown-up debut of Pia Zadora, an ‘actress’ that you would love to overhear gabbing with Madonna about their storied attempts to become movie stars.
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Blade Runner: Director’s Cut (1982)
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Read more: Blade Runner: Director’s Cut (1982)Blade Runner is simply a masterpiece. There is no other way to put it. Minus the story, which is a good Philip K. Dick one, the production design alone could hold my attention for two hours. The visuals are absolutely foreign without being beyond the realm of belief.
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Icky Sex in Movies: Part One
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Read more: Icky Sex in Movies: Part OneSometimes it’s hard to believe what other people get up to when it comes to their nether regions. The early twentieth century child killer Albert Fish liked to soak balls of wool in lighter fluid, shove them up his bum and set fire to them. That was when he wasn’t driving needles into his groin…
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Hail Caesar! (2016): Christs, crammed by Coens, into a Messianic Monument of a Movie
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Read more: Hail Caesar! (2016): Christs, crammed by Coens, into a Messianic Monument of a MovieThat’s the key to Hail Caesar! one word, from the Hebrew ‘Mashiah’–’he who is anointed’, anointed for what? Nobody agrees.
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District 9 (2009)
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Read more: District 9 (2009)As action flicks go, District 9 excels beyond measure, but leave it to a genre film with B-movie splatter gore sensibility to create an immersive experience that generates more human pathos than a hundred overcooked dramas about the holocaust or racism.