Category: Movies
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Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
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Read more: Universal Soldier: Day of ReckoningVan Damme looks suitably tormented and wearied by age, but, really, can a serious science fiction plot coexist in a movie promising bone crunchings galore and Lundgrenades of ridiculousness?
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Thank You For Smoking
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Read more: Thank You For SmokingFew people on this planet know what it is to be truly despised. Can you blame them? I earn a living fronting an organization that kills 1200 people a day. Twelve hundred people. We’re talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women, and children. I mean, there’s Attila, Genghis..and me, Nick Naylor. The face…
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Casualties of War
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Read more: Casualties of WarMemories are curious phenomena. In fact, since they only exist in any real sense to the individual, are they actually a phenomenon?
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
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Read more: Beasts of the Southern WildIf you’re reading this, chances are your childlike innocence has been taken, maybe by the loss of a loved one, through your own failures, or even by a drunk uncle in a windowless shack. Point being, you’re not a child anymore, no matter how many times you shit your pants or throw up from eating…
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The Matrix Reloaded
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Read more: The Matrix ReloadedTrent Reznor, for some reason, was not credited for providing all the inspiration for this movie. Oh, and it is Keanu Reeves, not Christopher I’m sorry to report this, but The Matrix Reloaded sucks a big one. Like almost everyone else in the world, I enjoyed the first Matrix enough to watch it half a…
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Eyes Wide Shut
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Read more: Eyes Wide ShutSydney Pollack with the cue ball… Without doubt — in my mind anyhow– Eyes Wide Shut is not only Kubrick’s most gripping and refined film, but basically his very best. The persnickety problem of Dr. Strangelove always rears its head; the problem being that Strangelove is so good, how can anything be better? Besides, how…
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Barbie (2023)
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Read more: Barbie (2023)Full disclosure: I love Greta Gerwig. Lady Bird makes me ugly-cryface with gratitude every time I watch it. Her version of Little Women was revelatory and infuriatingly perfect (a writer yet to sell a screenplay notes). She was and is the perfect choice for the project, with longtime partner Noah Baumbach, most recently the architect…
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Total Recall (2012) (NSFW)
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Read more: Total Recall (2012) (NSFW)Rated PG-13!
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Judgement Day
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Read more: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Judgement Day“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” – Judgement Day. For more than seventy years, Hollywood has been fascinating and frightening people with various representations of artificial intelligence (AI). Sometimes the AI is good or well-intentioned, but more often the AI is sinister and trying to eradicate a few humans, if not all of humanity.…
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No Hard Feelings
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Read more: No Hard Feelings“No Hard Feelings” … Oh, the humanity. After reading the synopsis of No Hard Feelings I immediately wondered why an established and renowned actor like Jennifer Lawrence would choose to star in a film with all the hallmarks of a soiled diaper. It’s an understatement to say this kind of film is beneath Lawrence at…