Category: Reviews
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Ghost
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Read more: GhostIt seems I don’t have much luck in trying to expand my horizons with the frown-inducing stuff. Convoluted Italian class struggles, suicidal Holocaust survivors,
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Julia (1977)
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Read more: Julia (1977)Let’s say you’re Lillian Hellman. Brilliant writer, captivating intellectual, companion of the equally legendary Dashiell Hammett. You spend your days in a seaside manor, pounding away at assorted keys while smoking enough cigarettes to keep Philip Morris in silk sheets for a millennium
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The Lost Boys (1987)
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Read more: The Lost Boys (1987)Sleep all day, party all night. It’s fun to be a vampire
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Army of Shadows
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Read more: Army of ShadowsIn my humble opinion, not enough movies have been made about the French Resistance. I can’t even begin to imagine how brave those lot were, covertly operating under the pronounced threat of torture and death
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Twisters (2024)
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Read more: Twisters (2024)There seems to be a misconception about the kind of movie that Twisters is. On the surface, it looks and sounds like a sequel to 1996’s Twister. The previews show tornados and people chasing said tornados, just like in Twister.
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Nuns on the Run
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Read more: Nuns on the RunIt’s no Tootsie or Some Like It Hot, but the cross-dressing Nuns delivers a goofy, well-paced ninety minutes laced with a gentle mockery of Catholicism.
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Fat City (1972)
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Read more: Fat City (1972)Stockton, California, 1972. A land of dreams, provided said dreams fit comfortably within a narrow paper sack. Those at work, those chosen few, barely surviving
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More with JFK
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Read more: More with JFKMy eyes tend to glaze when people start trotting out conspiracy theories about the moon landing, 9/11 or the Kennedy assassination.
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Coup de Chance: aka, Stroke of Luck
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Read more: Coup de Chance: aka, Stroke of LuckThe almighty was supposed to keep mortals in line by threat of divine punishment in a promised afterlife. At least those among us who subscribed to such notions; however, a clever few reason they could break the rules society pretends to live by and rewards would come their way.
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Roller Boogie
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Read more: Roller BoogieDespite only having enough plot for a twenty-minute short, Boogie stretches its ultra-lightweight hijinks out for five times as long. This is just as well.