Category: Reviews
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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.
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Cobra
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Read more: CobraFirst of all, Sly Stallone spends the entire movie wearing the sort of sunglasses worn by Rob Halford in at least a half dozen Judas Priest videos. Add to that a group of terrorists who gather in a swimming pool…
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Pizza Scissors, Cobra
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Pizza Scissors, CobraPainful as it is to admit, these old, tired eyes have watched Cobra at least two dozen times.
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Elvis on Film: Change of Habit (1969)
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Read more: Elvis on Film: Change of Habit (1969)King of Kings. In his long and otherwise undistinguished movie career, Elvis Presley just about did it all — surfing, kissing, dancing, singing, swimming, winking, and occasionally, racing cars.
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Bennett, Commando
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Bennett, CommandoBennett is more than iconic; he’s the most representative sample of the entire 80’s Action ethos in the history of the screen
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Chowchilla (2023)
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Read more: Chowchilla (2023)Let’s unbury the lead before diving into the review itself: During the summer of 1976, in the Central Californian agricultural town of Chowchilla, twenty-six children and their adult bus driver were kidnapped by three armed men.
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Un Coeur en Hiver (1992) (A Heart In Winter)
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Read more: Un Coeur en Hiver (1992) (A Heart In Winter)I was asked what was a great movie about love? Now I’m no expert on love, but I do recognize great films every once and awhile. Check out this magnificent French film
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The Substance (2024)
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Read more: The Substance (2024)Writer-director Coralie Fargeat made a big, bold, bloody splash with her 2017 debut feature Revenge, a smart, feminist take on the rape-revenge thriller that is stylish, riveting, and extremely violent
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Assholes of the Cinema: Mickey Rooney, Babes in Arms (1939)
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Read more: Assholes of the Cinema: Mickey Rooney, Babes in Arms (1939)So yes, Mr. Rooney was always and forever a man-child in the promised land, but what he never lacked was nerve. Appalling, grating nerve, to be frank.
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Postcards from the Edge (1990)
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Read more: Postcards from the Edge (1990)Carrie Fisher’s story is semi-autobiographical in the same sense Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is semi-autobiographical, perhaps even more so