Category: Movies
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Death Race 2000
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Read more: Death Race 2000The greatest film of all time. To involve David Carradine.
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King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
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Read more: King of Kong: A Fistful of QuartersNEEEEEEERDS!
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Theater Of Blood (1973)
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Read more: Theater Of Blood (1973)Do you have a mantra that helps you get through life’s darker moments? You know, something that enables you to cope with the searing knowledge that dreams don’t come true and you’ll instead have to settle for second, third or fourth best as you crawl unfulfilled toward your grave. I cling to the insight of…
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Burn After Reading
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Read more: Burn After ReadingA film so delightfully absurd and pointless that it damn near achieves grandeur in spite of itself.
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Cool Hand Luke
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Read more: Cool Hand Luke“A natural born world-shaker“ Paul Newman has always been in the top tier of the greatest actors of all time. He is certainly in the company of actors like Peter O’Toole, Daniel-Day Lewis, Jack Nicholson, Richard Burton and Sidney Portier. His accomplishments as a beer drinker, race car driver, blue-eyed sex symbol and actor are…
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Cuties (Mignonnes)
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Read more: Cuties (Mignonnes)Francois Truffaut famously stated: “There is no such thing as an anti-war film.” In essence, what he was getting at is that any subject, when filmed and put on screen for viewers, inherently becomes glamorized and entertaining, and the filmmaker is therefore unavoidably subverted into creating entertainment out of the very thing which they set…
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Cruising (1980)
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Read more: Cruising (1980)I once backpacked in Hanoi and happened to walk past a public toilet to see one of the little locals loitering near the entrance. Certain he’d caught my eye, he proceeded to unzip and begin wanking. Slightly taken aback (while trying to hang onto the old adage Travel broadens the mind) I looked around to…
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Shang-Chi And The Legend of The Ten Rings
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Read more: Shang-Chi And The Legend of The Ten Rings“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” – I’ll try not to geek out too much on you. With the release of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, we can officially say the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has really begun. Yes, I know Loki and WandaVision and Falcon…
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The Late Show (1977)
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Read more: The Late Show (1977)For those who do not know, the 11:30 spot on KNXT (CBS here in the LA market back in the 60s) was filled with old movies five nights of the week. I saw many of the greats from the 40s and 50s on this, The Late Show. I watched the Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep,…
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Targets (1968)
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Read more: Targets (1968)Back in Dear Old Blighty in 87 when I was a cherubic-faced schoolboy half-mesmerized by Tracey Sharpe’s swaying pigtails, a jobless loner in a nearby market town killed his mum, burned their house down and strolled around with an arsenal of high-powered weaponry slaughtering whoever he could find. Ho hum. Guess we all have days…