Category: Movies
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Starring debuts #12: Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967)
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Read more: Starring debuts #12: Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967)There’s a scene in The Graduate where Benjamin Braddock (Hoffman) is lying supine on a hotel bed while Mrs. Robinson (Bancroft), the sophisticated older woman who’s introduced him to the mysteries of sex, sits alongside clad in a black bra slowly unbuttoning his white shirt and running her hands over his smooth chest. Accompanied by…
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Uncharted (2022)
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Read more: Uncharted (2022)“Uncharted” – Inter-National Treasure. Given the number of video games released every year, it’s surprising to see how few of them are adapted into movies. Ever since Super Mario Bros. debuted as the first video game adaptation / cow pie in 1993, it makes sense that studios would be hesitant to make more movies from…
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Fucked-Up Films #2: Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975)
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Read more: Fucked-Up Films #2: Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975)Film Title Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS Synopsis Mein Gott! Director Don Edmonds Cast Dyanne Thorne Gregory Knoph Tony Mumolo Richard Kennedy George Buck Flower What are these sick bastards doing? Obviously inspired by Dr Josef Mengele’s ‘pioneering’ work in Auschwitz, this is a flick that concentrates on the more extreme Nazi obsessions. Ilsa…
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This Means War
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Read more: This Means WarExuberant gay sex.
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Blacklight
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Read more: Blacklight“Blacklight” – It is time to stop now, Liam. There’s a new Liam Neeson movie coming out, so it must be February. Put another way, it’s February, so what is the name of the latest Liam Neeson action flick? Put a third way, there’s a new movie about a grizzled old lone wolf with a…
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The Fountainhead (1949)
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Read more: The Fountainhead (1949)Lines and shadows, shadows and lines. The Fountainhead is all sharp angles defined by shadows defined by shadows so sharp they could cut through the self-servicing philosophy of the artless Rand on the airless moon. Only one director could have made sense of this!!! King Vidor of Galveston Texas. He cut through the angles when…
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Death On The Nile (2022)
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Read more: Death On The Nile (2022)It is just a river in Egypt. Probably. We often hear people complain about the lack of creativity or originality in Hollywood. Almost exclusively, that complaint is directed at big budget blockbusters and franchises. We know that complaint is completely insincere when we hear nary a peep from those same people about a movie like…
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Ezra’s Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2021
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Read more: Ezra’s Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2021THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH – To be honest, the trailer alone became my favorite movie of the year as soon as I saw it, and the actual feature certainly doesn’t disappoint. In fact, my appreciation for it only grew on the second viewing. Joel Coen’s first “solo” movie (without his brother Ethan) is a stunning…
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Saved!
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Read more: Saved!Hollywood should read some Nietzsche.
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Gangs of New York
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Read more: Gangs of New York“Did Scorsese really direct that?”