Category: Movies
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Shaky Starts: Part One
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Read more: Shaky Starts: Part OneSometime in my early youth, I realized I would one day have to work for a living. This seemed unfair, especially as I already had a mumsy and a da-da to provide everything. Later at high school a counselor asked me about my dream job. I truthfully replied it was to not have a job.…
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The Untouchables
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Read more: The UntouchablesI was at the Ellis Mercantile movie prop house in Hollywood renting a couple dozen replica Colt Peacemakers and a few assorted Winchesters, Sharps and Spencer rifles for a western pilot I was propping to be shot in Santa Fe when I heard Brian DePalma was making a movie of The Untouchables. The guys at…
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Play Misty for Me
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Read more: Play Misty for MeThe Hollywood record tells us that in November of 1971, Clint Eastwood made his directorial debut with the release of Play Misty for Me.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
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Read more: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)Under the Orange, White, and Teal.
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Tombstone (1993)
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Read more: Tombstone (1993)Tombstone (1993) was the epic story of Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and the famous Shootout at the O.K. Corral, but it was much, much more. Wyatt, retired from the dangerous and stressful career as a lawman, was to settle in Tombstone with his brothers and their families, to an enterprising venture into the hotel and…
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Black Swan
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Read more: Black SwanPortrait of the Artist as a Young Psychotic
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Oldboy (2003)
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Read more: Oldboy (2003)Erich loves sushi…
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The Green Knight (2021)
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Read more: The Green Knight (2021)We all heard the pipes begin to play for cinema, didn’t we? I did. Then, from nowhere and without warning, somebody made The Green Knight and gave us hope. It is a Christmas film, in the real sense, the actual high-holy-day-of-the-Christian-calendar sense (Die Hard can drop reeling from the top of Nakatomi Plaza for all…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 46
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 46Movie: Moon The entire movie is one long memorable scene. Moon is a movie starring Sam Rockwell and no one else save Kevin Spacey, who is the voice of the robot Gerty. This movie is a low budget movie (5 million dollars), but it is one of the best sci-fi space movies ever created. Any…
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A Christmas Carol (2020)
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Read more: A Christmas Carol (2020)A Christmas Carol: A heavily narrated, twitching jerking, twirling, pretentious and choreographed mess. But, it was a beautiful mess. This is yet another rendition of my favorite themed Christmas movie, A Christmas Carol. In an upscale Victorian home, the children had constructed a paper theater version of this classic. As grandmother narrates the story of…