Category: Movies
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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
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Read more: A Charlie Brown ThanksgivingThe review I wrote years ago about A Charlie Brown Christmas received a lot of hate mail. Hate mail that was well-received, as we love it.
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Red One (2024)
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Read more: Red One (2024)Do you know what I expect out of a Dwayne Johnson led film? Very little. Do you know what I expect out of a Dwayne Johnson performance? Punching and scowling.
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Movie: 1612 (Khroniki Smutnogo Vremeni)
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Read more: Movie: 1612 (Khroniki Smutnogo Vremeni)This was one fucked up movie. The Time of Troubles lasted from 1598 to 1613 between the death of Tsar Feodor and the establishment of the Romanov dynasty
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I, Spartacus (2024)
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Read more: I, Spartacus (2024)A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
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The Art of Darkness: Apocalypse Now & Full Metal Jacket
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Read more: The Art of Darkness: Apocalypse Now & Full Metal Jacket“War is hell,” the cliche’ proclaims, but it seems to be entertaining hell. Along with other ghastly subjects such as murder and vampirism, war ranks among the most popular and commonly used subject matter of filmed entertainment.
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The Unsung: Flo Harrigan, The Happy Ending (1969)
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Read more: The Unsung: Flo Harrigan, The Happy Ending (1969)In a film filled to the brim with unhappiness, addiction, chronic dissatisfaction, and fits of despair, she is the lone vision of loveliness. Where there is pain, she is the cure.
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A Midwinter’s Tale (1995)
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Read more: A Midwinter’s Tale (1995)An underemployed actor stages a production of Hamlet in order to save a village church from the wrecking ball.
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The Unsung: Bud Corliss, A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
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Read more: The Unsung: Bud Corliss, A Kiss Before Dying (1956)A man engages in a brief affair with a young lady. That same young lady soon announces that she is pregnant. The man is openly supportive, even a bit sentimental. Hell yes we’ll build a future, and by god, we’ll tie the knot later this week.
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When Oscar Shit the Bed: Gigi (1958)
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Read more: When Oscar Shit the Bed: Gigi (1958)1958’s Gigi, winner of 9 Academy Awards, is a stunning, sumptuous, Fabergé egg of a movie, albeit one in service of a great, unmitigated evil. You knew this, given Maurice Chevalier’s name in the opening credits
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The Hidden (1987)
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Read more: The Hidden (1987)If you’re a seething fantasist, a deeply immature guy incubating warped daydreams about making ’em all pay, then The Hidden is right up your dark little alley