Category: Movies
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Poor Things
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Read more: Poor ThingsAt the very first heartbeat of this outrageously original and beautiful movie, I was hypnotized and hooked.
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Onibaba(1964)
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Read more: Onibaba(1964)Few among you are likely to watch a Japanese film that doesn’t feature either copious amounts of kung fu or a large, fire-breathing lizard, but…
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Starring Debuts # 24: Sissy Spacek in Badlands (1973)
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Read more: Starring Debuts # 24: Sissy Spacek in Badlands (1973)Some people need a good, hard slap to wake them the fuck up and there would be no more deserving recipient than Holly Sargis (Spacek). She’s vapid, easily led and amoral, a freckled, baton-twirling fifteen-year-old girl who barely mutters a word of protest during the murder of her father. “Are you gonna be OK?” she…
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Oscarheimer 2024
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Read more: Oscarheimer 2024Time once again for my extremely reliable, one hundred percent accurate Oscar predictions! If you want the short version, scroll right down to the end, where I recap all my predictions in a tidy column. If you want to read about the whys and wherefores and let me hedge my bets a bit, as well…
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The Phantom Menace: The 100 Things Wrong With it Edition
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Read more: The Phantom Menace: The 100 Things Wrong With it EditionMommy, Why are Jedis so gay?
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Fantastic Planet (1973)
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Read more: Fantastic Planet (1973)“In the third millennium before Kraup, the Great Zarek created the first pyramic civilization. Legend says that from his tomb he still animates the ball of life, that his body, though constantly pierced by projectiles, does not change, and that his mind has regularly traversed the skies of Ygam ever since the Draags, under his…
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Fucked-Up Films #13: Spetters (1980)
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Read more: Fucked-Up Films #13: Spetters (1980)Synopsis: A rough and raw portrayal of young Dutch lives Director: Paul Verhoeven Cast: Hans van Tongeren, Renée Soutendijk, Toon Agterberg, Maarten Spanjer, Marianne Boyer, Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé, Peter Tuinman Verhoeven can’t do too much wrong in my eyes, probably because he’s one of the most politically incorrect filmmakers of all time. Now in…
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Great Expectations (1946)
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Read more: Great Expectations (1946)Directed by David Lean. Screenplay by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan &Ronald Neame Based on the 1861 novel by Charles Dickens. With: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles (who we’ll see ten years later as a kidnapper in The Man Who Knew Too Much). Here, he is kindly blacksmith, Joe), Francis L. Sullivan as Mr. Jaggers…
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Zardoz (1974): A Love Letter from Holland
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Read more: Zardoz (1974): A Love Letter from HollandDon’t you just hate it when movies are all logical and comprehensible? That you’re watching something, and you go like: ‘yeah, that person just did or said something, and now, that other person did or said something, and it all makes perfect sense!’ Ugh. Boring! Well, if you happen to be one of those rather…
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Fucked-Up Films #12: Fingers (1978)
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Read more: Fucked-Up Films #12: Fingers (1978)Synopsis: Keitel puts the bark in Bach Director: James Toback Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Michael V. Gazzo, Jim Brown, Tanya Roberts, Tony Sirico Do you ever watch a movie and end up unsure whether it’s a gem or a pile of bollocks? Perhaps you then start skimming the reviews, an exercise that results in…