Category: Reviews
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A Midwinter’s Tale (1995)
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Read more: A Midwinter’s Tale (1995)An underemployed actor stages a production of Hamlet in order to save a village church from the wrecking ball.
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The Unsung: Bud Corliss, A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
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Read more: The Unsung: Bud Corliss, A Kiss Before Dying (1956)A man engages in a brief affair with a young lady. That same young lady soon announces that she is pregnant. The man is openly supportive, even a bit sentimental. Hell yes we’ll build a future, and by god, we’ll tie the knot later this week.
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When Oscar Shit the Bed: Gigi (1958)
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Read more: When Oscar Shit the Bed: Gigi (1958)1958’s Gigi, winner of 9 Academy Awards, is a stunning, sumptuous, Fabergé egg of a movie, albeit one in service of a great, unmitigated evil. You knew this, given Maurice Chevalier’s name in the opening credits
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The Hidden (1987)
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Read more: The Hidden (1987)If you’re a seething fantasist, a deeply immature guy incubating warped daydreams about making ’em all pay, then The Hidden is right up your dark little alley
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Fucked-Up Films #7: 10 To Midnight (1983)
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Read more: Fucked-Up Films #7: 10 To Midnight (1983)What are these sick bastards doing? Celibacy makes you kill people. Sex gets you killed. Christ, what’s a person s’posed to do?
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The Unsung: Laura-Louise, Rosemary’s Baby
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Read more: The Unsung: Laura-Louise, Rosemary’s BabyThe beauty of Rosemary’s Baby is that, while it acknowledges Satanists are living among us trying to overthrow the established order, we really have nothing to fear.
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The Red Menace (1949)
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Read more: The Red Menace (1949)In light of my late-night viewing of 1949’s The Red Menace, it became impossible to believe that the same Soviet Union that withstood a Nazi invasion was the same nation who, when pushed to expand its operation to American shores
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The Unsung: Mr. Robinson, The Graduate
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Read more: The Unsung: Mr. Robinson, The GraduateYou heard me. I said, Mister Robinson. You can take your middle-aged desperado, the missus of the pair, and stick her back in storage. Benjamin, monstrous louse that he is, can go back to lounging poolside.
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The Unsung: Big Dick Blaque, Hardcore
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Read more: The Unsung: Big Dick Blaque, HardcoreHe enters like a hurricane, the most confident human being we’re ever likely to see. He’s a man’s man, back before the term had toxic implications. On screen for less than a minute, he takes over the movie so completely, it’s hard to imagine he didn’t get his own sequel
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Conclave (2024)
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Read more: Conclave (2024)When I was a kid, my understanding of how the Catholic Church chose a new pope was they lit a fire for each cardinal and the color of the smoke determined if that guy was the next pope.