Category: Reviews
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Speak No Evil (2024)
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Read more: Speak No Evil (2024)The major reason I ignore previews is because I want to be completely surprised by what I am about to see in a film. Unfortunately, doing so is also a pitfall for me.
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The Americanization of Emily (1964)
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Read more: The Americanization of Emily (1964)One of the finest films ever made about war.
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The Hospital (1971)
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Read more: The Hospital (1971)Words that snap, sizzle, and exist far beyond the need to push the story forward.
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The Unsung: Frances Amthor [Kate Murtagh] in Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
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Read more: The Unsung: Frances Amthor [Kate Murtagh] in Farewell, My Lovely (1975)When we first encounter Frances Amthor, she’s surrounded by a bevy of young beauties at a makeshift table. Whores, to be exact, but don’t let her hear you say that. Four or five working girls, by my count, and from all appearances, twice as many sandwiches.
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
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Read more: Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceThe best way to describe Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is – convince Michael Keaton to put on a thirty-six-year-old costume, throw him against a wall in Tim Burton’s house, and see what squirts out.
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The Horse’s Mouth (1958)
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Read more: The Horse’s Mouth (1958)Like every true artist Gulley Jimson is on a quest for the perfect canvas for his vision of, in this case, The Raising of Lazarus, be-it on a wall, a ship’s hull or a condemned church.
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Monsters
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Read more: MonstersLike most boys, I quickly developed a love for monsters and supernatural creatures, a morbid fascination only deepened by devouring the novels of Guy N. Smith.
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
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Read more: Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)Before he got a gig with Stanley Kubrick, Larry Lapinsky moved to Greenwich Village from Brooklyn to escape the confines of neighborhood expectations and his hysterical shrew of a mother.
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Beetlejuice (1988)
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Read more: Beetlejuice (1988)Beetlejuice is a wildly outrageous film made by the great Tim Burton. This is a film that demands multiple viewings to be fully appreciated. Beetlejuice was initially supposed to be a horror movie
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The Unsung: Henry Northrup, Creepshow
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Read more: The Unsung: Henry Northrup, CreepshowAll men, at some point or another, have fantasized about killing the woman with whom they have shared a bed. Doubly so if those same sheets have been contaminated by the hazardous waste of marriage.