Category: Reviews
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Maniac Cop (1988)
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Read more: Maniac Cop (1988)“Make it bigger than AIDS!” If a line of dialogue ever locked in a movie at the dead center of Reagan’s America, it’s that one. Once it hits, like that late-night slip into a warm bath, you know you’re home. Safe and sound, naturally
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Death Ship (1980)
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Read more: Death Ship (1980)February 10, 2025. Not quite D-Day, Pearl Harbor, or that dreadful afternoon in Dallas, but close. Damn close. Here, before me, was an image I never thought I’d see, and yes, the scene I never knew I’d been missing: George Kennedy.
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Concorde: Airport 79
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Read more: Concorde: Airport 79In many ways, Concorde: Airport 79 has always been the bastard child of the decade’s disaster series, but it just might be its most watchable.
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Tombstone (1993)
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Read more: Tombstone (1993)Homoeroticism? More than you can possibly imagine. I don’t even know where to begin, but it doesn’t matter. While definitely not an 80’s Action movie, this movie was all about the guys, in spite of the presence of many hot women.
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Love Hurts (2025)
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Read more: Love Hurts (2025)Ke Huy Quan is having quite the renaissance. After finding fame as child actor in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies, he made scant appearance for a few years and disappeared from acting altogether from 2002 to 2021.
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Ezra’s Favorite Movies of 2024
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Read more: Ezra’s Favorite Movies of 2024I’ve heard it said that 2024 was a bad year for movies, but I personally have never believed such a thing exists. There are always good and even great movies to be found in any year, now more than ever
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Wine Bottle, Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Wine Bottle, Death Wish 4: The CrackdownBy 1987, Paul Kersey was a shell of his former self. Sure, he hadn’t lost a step in terms of his desire to kill, nor his near-legendary taste for much younger women, but he was getting lazy. Incredibly lazy. Would the Paul of yore have resorted to MacGyver methods when a gun barrel to the…
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The Unsung: Civilian, Apocalypse Now (1979)
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Read more: The Unsung: Civilian, Apocalypse Now (1979)He is everyone and no one. A man of mystery, never to be pigeonholed or defined, yet so real, so tangible, he all but stands in for every G-man who ever lived. Soldier, bureaucrat, and yes, “civilian” (as he’s so named in the credits)
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
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Read more: The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)In 1974, Samuel Bicke (Sean Penn) took a gun to the Baltimore-Washington Airport with the intent of hijacking a plane, crashing it into the White House, and killing President Nixon.
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Heart Eyes (2025)
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Read more: Heart Eyes (2025)Heart Eyes is one of the dumbest movies I’ve seen in a long time. But it’s intentionally dumb, and I can respect that. It’s the kind of movie I would watch again, but only after at least three drinks.