Category: Movies
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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.
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The Not Quite #8: Mean Streets (1973)
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Read more: The Not Quite #8: Mean Streets (1973)Scorsese’s first hit was also the first time he hooked up with De Niro. Lots of people see Mean Streets as an essential entry in their impressive partnership, but I think it would produce juicier fruit down the line. I hope you’re not gonna insist that makes me a mook. Cast: Keitel, De Niro, David…
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Starring Debuts #26: Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal (1957)
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Read more: Starring Debuts #26: Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal (1957)We’re film fans, right? This means we’ve occasionally gotta get out of our comfort zone and give the likes of the mopey-as-fuck Ingmar Bergman a go. It can’t all be Arnie, Scorpio and King Kong breaking a dinosaur’s jaws, can it? And so to fourteenth-century Sweden. A bloke has come home from fighting the Crusades…
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The Outlaw (1943)
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Read more: The Outlaw (1943)Over 80 years after its release, perhaps the best-known thing about Howard Hughes’s The Outlaw is still the controversy over how much (or how little, by today’s standards) of Jane Russell’s breasts are on display. Hughes was forced by the Hollywood Production Code Administration to remove about 30 seconds of offending footage, but even after…
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
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Read more: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire“Loud and Stompy” Should I really be reviewing Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire with even a hint of seriousness? Probably not. Read the title and convince me this movie is in any way made by even mildly serious filmmakers. Would barely serious filmmakers put a random x in the title of their movie? No,…
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Dirty Old Men: Part 4
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Read more: Dirty Old Men: Part 4Tony Leung Ka-fai and Jane March in The Lover (1992) I still remember the hullabaloo about March’s debut in which it was rumored (like Christie and Sutherland two decades earlier in Don’t Look Now) that she was actually doing it. Amazing, really, that the public so often gets sucked into such nonsense. March plays a…
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The Lost Weekend
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Read more: The Lost WeekendThe Wet House provides a judgment-free atmosphere for drunks, but there was no such thing in the world of this ground-breaking movie that was made in 1945.