Category: Movies
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The Ghost Writer
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Read more: The Ghost WriterIn Polanski’s slick, Hitchcockian thriller, a writer known only as the Ghost (Ewan McGregor), is hired to ghostwrite the memoirs of an ex British Prime Minister named Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), clearly based on Tony Blair.
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The Lion In Winter (1968)
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Read more: The Lion In Winter (1968)The Lion In Winter is the greatest movie ever to only win 3 Oscars, with another Academy slap in the face to Peter O’Toole. I guess that the Academy reveres retards the mentally and emotionally challenged (Charly and Forrest Gump) more than Saving Private Ryan and Peter O’Toole.
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Starring Debuts #28: Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass (1961)
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Read more: Starring Debuts #28: Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass (1961)Bud Stamper (a 23-year-old Beatty) and Deanie (a bewitching Natalie Wood) excel at capturing such sexual repression, desperate to get it on.
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Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
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Read more: Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)There are many stages of marriage. One being Disillusionment, which is the stage of marriage following Romance and before Misery.
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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.