Category: Movies
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Sunset Blvd. (1950)
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Read more: Sunset Blvd. (1950)Whom other than the broke, down-on-his-luck writer could tell the story of granduers past and golden eras faded into weed-choked shadows of their former grace.
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Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple
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Read more: Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s TempleJim Jones — preacher, con man, pervert, and, ultimately, instigator of mass murder/suicide — is not the sort of man I fear as I close my eyes.
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The Not Quite #9: Platoon (1986)
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Read more: The Not Quite #9: Platoon (1986)Vietnam is usually thought of as America’s festering sore, but the Aussies also played ball by contributing more than five hundred deaths. However, whereas the Yanks like to pick at the scab through their movies, the Aussies largely left things alone in the 20th century
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Sharkwater (2006)
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Read more: Sharkwater (2006)Tigers are killed for their penises so that pathologically insecure gentlemen might tap into some mystical power of seduction…
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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.