Category: Reviews
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American Werewolf in London (1981)
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Read more: American Werewolf in London (1981)1969. John Landis is a kid on his first movie set, just out of school and bushy-tailed for adventure. The studio sends him to be Ninth Asst. Director Once Removed on a war film in Serbia, or Albania, or Montenegro—one of those gray, superstitious countries
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Top 10 Halloween Candies That Are More Trick Than Treat
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Read more: Top 10 Halloween Candies That Are More Trick Than TreatCandy Corn-Why?–That not a cruel thing to ask, I mean, step back. Candy. Corn. Fucking why? They don’t taste like corn. And they don’t look like corn kernels, except the thin yellow layer at the top
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M30 OXY (2024)
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Read more: M30 OXY (2024)M30 Oxy is yet another Indie movie, directed by Wesley Mullins,and starring the great Leanne Johnson. The film is set in Kentucky, rural Appalachia, which is a sad area that is saddled with multiple epidemics.
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The Unsung: Bessie Winters, Pigskin Parade (1936)
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Read more: The Unsung: Bessie Winters, Pigskin Parade (1936)Few things in life excite me quite like a person out of time. Even better, a woman out of time. A dame of sass and unusual import; a broad who gives far better than she’s ever going to get
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The Unsung: Gar, Mask (1985)
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Read more: The Unsung: Gar, Mask (1985)If reincarnation is our lot after breathing our last, I can only hope I come back as Gar. Never did catch a last name, but I’m doubting one was necessary. Say it out loud – always in hushed tones – and even the uninitiated have some idea. Hell, the name itself seems to conjure the…
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The Unsung: Easy Andy, Taxi Driver
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Read more: The Unsung: Easy Andy, Taxi DriverHe is unquestionably the most cold-hearted character in the history of the cinema. Impeccably dressed, as if he’d think little of attending the opera after delivering a weapon of war to a client, he is suave, charming, and without a trace of sentiment.
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Joker: Folie a Deux (2024)
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Read more: Joker: Folie a Deux (2024)It is not uncommon for creators of all sorts to become disgusted with their own most successful works. Joker: Folie à Deux, the utterly joyless follow-up to Todd Phillips’s 2019 smash hit Joker, is the most egregious example I’ve ever seen of this phenomenon
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Hellraiser (1987)
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Read more: Hellraiser (1987)Internet porn and plastic in our water supply is creating more and more men like Frank Cotton. A besotted hedonist, a flesh-worshiper of the most bent and twisted caste possible.
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The Ninth Gate (1999)
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Read more: The Ninth Gate (1999)In the grand universe of horror/mystery tropes, the most hoary and venerable must be: Start it with an old dude hanging himself. The viewer is instantly gripped: why-oh-why did this dignified gentleman find it necessary to end himself?
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Wolfs (2024)
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Read more: Wolfs (2024)Here’s the deal: if there is a god, or supreme being or higher power as our friends in AA say, he enjoys a personal hatred for me. Why? I do not know, nor can I imagine.