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Fatman (2020)
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Read more: Fatman (2020)The subversive Christmas movie is nothing new in cinema. Every year, profound wits declare that they and they alone have discovered the shocking truth that Die Hard is, in fact, a Christmas movie. Taking it a bit further, nearly every action movie written by the great Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The Long Kiss Goodnight, etc)…
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We’re No Angels (1955)
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Read more: We’re No Angels (1955)Here at Ruthless we love our readers, especially when they give us suggestions about great movies to review. We’re No Angels is a light-hearted and unusual Christmas type movie staring the iconic Humphrey Bogart. O.K., it wasn’t a great movie as such, but considering that the film is 65 years old, it holds up quite…
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Verotika
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Read more: VerotikaDamn this inconvenient global pandemic! A movie like Glenn Danzig’s absurdly amateurish, lurid, and pointless Verotika simply demands to be seen in a theater full of like-minded trash-lovers cackling and shouting at the ineptitude displayed onscreen. It is just not meant to be seen as your faithful servant, this reviewer, was forced to see it,…
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The Christmas Chronicles 2
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Read more: The Christmas Chronicles 2I got the notification yesterday that The Christmas Chronicles 2 was available for immediate streaming at Netflix. I didn’t know whether or not to rejoice or cringe. I don’t want to poison the well, but let’s face it. Christmas sequels have not historically been successful. Most, like Bad Santa 2 and the unwatchable A Christmas…
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Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood: One Possible Interpretation
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Read more: Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood: One Possible InterpretationIn all that has already been written and said about Quentin Tarantino’s latest (and supposedly penultimate) movie, one thing that comes up again and again is the surprisingly disrespectful way in which the character of Bruce Lee (Mike Moh) is portrayed. His one really crucial scene sees him being arrogant toward stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad…
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The Muppets
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Read more: The MuppetsGrowing up with The Muppet Show in my formative years meant exposure to a vaudeville tradition dating back to the 1880s at a time when stage performance was becoming a lost art. Kermit fronted a remarkable host of talent that kind of made you forget they were puppets, with a backstage part of the show…
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7 Best Apps for Movies, Music, and TV Shows
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Read more: 7 Best Apps for Movies, Music, and TV ShowsWith the development of applications, you can be able to watch on-demand movies, music, and TV shows at the comfort of your smartphone. While there are many factors to consider before settling on an application that suits your watching needs, a better application is one that allows you to save offline content in the most…
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The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
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Read more: The Dead Don’t Die (2019)“Humor is subjective” is a phrase I forced myself to remember several times throughout legendary independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch’s latest, The Dead Don’t Die, as several other people in the audience with me reacted audibly and approvingly to jokes I found relentlessly unfunny and lame. Here are some of the bits that elicited laughter… Farmer…
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Dear Zachary: A Letter To a Son About His Father
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Read more: Dear Zachary: A Letter To a Son About His Father2008 Denver International Film Festival There’s a myth afoot, origins unknown, that life is worth living. It’s a powerful elixir, needless to say, and continues to hold great power despite almost hourly confirmation of having long ago been debunked. Evidence is plentiful, though one could just as easily submit the documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter…
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Un Chien Andalou
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Read more: Un Chien AndalouThis 1929 collaboration between Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali is one of the strangest and most enigmatic films ever produced, containing all the layers of dream logic and elusive profundity of a David Lynch movie in under twenty minutes. The two notorious surrealists apparently couldn’t have been happier that their work confounded so many viewers…