Category: Movies
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My Year in Movies – 2023 Edition
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Read more: My Year in Movies – 2023 EditionThis never gets old… As we approach the end of 2023, I debated on which topic to discuss at length here. The biggest story was the dual strikes by the Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild. The strikes went on for months, grinding production to a halt on everything. Several movie releases were delayed and…
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Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
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Read more: Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)There are movies that are familial train wrecks. There are movies like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf that are deaths by 10,000 cuts. However, I have never before seen such a devastating wreck as Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, a masterpiece created by the 83 year-old genius director, Sydney Lumet. This movie was not…
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Year of the Dragon (1985)
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Read more: Year of the Dragon (1985)Synopsis: ‘Chinatown, it’s a different scene/There are people there, they are so obscene’ Director: Michael Cimino Cast: Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Dennis Dun, Leonard Termo You got any idea what it’s like to scale the heights and then plunge into a shit pit as a fair chunk of the…
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The Cannonball Run
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Read more: The Cannonball RunAmerica before The Fall. The Cannonball Run. Could a film more accurately encapsulate the competitive ass kickery that once consumed our culture? I think not. Let’s delve into the devolution of how us Americans interpret a race
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G(odzilla) Minus One
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Read more: G(odzilla) Minus OneWhen I was a wee lad, my father tells me, I fell asleep in protest of how long it was taking for the 1976 King Kong to get around to showing the monster. As I’ve grown older and matured in my cinematic tastes, I’ve come to appreciate the suspenseful restraint of classics like Jaws and…
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Night Swim
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Read more: Night SwimIn my annual year-in-review piece, I highlighted how many horror movies were released just in 2023 (more than eighty). As if the movie gods were listening, my first screening of 2024 was a horror movie – Night Swim. Marketed as “from the producers of M3GAN,” Night Swim follows in M3GAN’s lazy footsteps, provides a couple…
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A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)
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Read more: A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)A good movie, but it is not great. In fact, it is frustrating, because you know that it could have been great.
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Die Hard With A Vengeance
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Read more: Die Hard With A VengeanceThink fast. Look alive. Die hard. How bad is it really? Well, it is a lot better than #2, let’s put it that way. Returning to the mix for this third installment was a buddy for McClane (Sam Jackson) and a smart but snooty European bad guy (Irons). Also, like the first film, the bad…
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Red Sonja
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Read more: Red SonjaIs lesbianism homoeroticism? These are the questions that will keep me from writing for legitimate (i.e. paying) publications.
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McBain
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Read more: McBainMENDOZAAAAAA!!!!!!!!1