Category: Movies
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The Unsung: Easy Andy, Taxi Driver
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Read more: The Unsung: Easy Andy, Taxi DriverHe is unquestionably the most cold-hearted character in the history of the cinema. Impeccably dressed, as if he’d think little of attending the opera after delivering a weapon of war to a client, he is suave, charming, and without a trace of sentiment.
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Joker: Folie a Deux (2024)
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Read more: Joker: Folie a Deux (2024)It is not uncommon for creators of all sorts to become disgusted with their own most successful works. Joker: Folie à Deux, the utterly joyless follow-up to Todd Phillips’s 2019 smash hit Joker, is the most egregious example I’ve ever seen of this phenomenon
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Hellraiser (1987)
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Read more: Hellraiser (1987)Internet porn and plastic in our water supply is creating more and more men like Frank Cotton. A besotted hedonist, a flesh-worshiper of the most bent and twisted caste possible.
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Screen Gambling: Top 5 exciting movies about casinos and gambling
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Read more: Screen Gambling: Top 5 exciting movies about casinos and gamblingThe world of gambling has always attracted the attention of filmmakers. Movies about casinos and gambling often tell fascinating stories about passionate players, masters of bluffing and people willing to risk everything for a big win.
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The Ninth Gate (1999)
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Read more: The Ninth Gate (1999)In the grand universe of horror/mystery tropes, the most hoary and venerable must be: Start it with an old dude hanging himself. The viewer is instantly gripped: why-oh-why did this dignified gentleman find it necessary to end himself?
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Wolfs (2024)
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Read more: Wolfs (2024)Here’s the deal: if there is a god, or supreme being or higher power as our friends in AA say, he enjoys a personal hatred for me. Why? I do not know, nor can I imagine.
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Michael Jennings, On Deadly Ground
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Michael Jennings, On Deadly GroundMichael Caine has won two Academy Awards. From Alfie to Hannah and Her Sisters, he has brought unparalleled charm, grace, and wit to innumerable roles, and hell, the man has even been knighted. But he’s also done Jaws: The Revenge.
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Extraction, USA (2024)
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Read more: Extraction, USA (2024)As a relative newcomer to the human dynamo that is writer-producer-director-editor-cinematographer-actor Leanne Johnson, I need to know what goes into her pre-workout shaker bottle.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
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Read more: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)What can you possibly expect from a movie that was made before CGI, a musical, and one that features stop motion animation? A dazzling masterpiece, that’s what.
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The Grifters (1990)
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Read more: The Grifters (1990)If you think about it, or being a Tarantino fan you don’t think at all, an actor is very much like a grifter, a con artist. The profession is to make you believe something that is not true.