Category: Reviews
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The Unsung: Frederick, Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
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Read more: The Unsung: Frederick, Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)Frederick is tired. As an artist, he is beholden to a fickle public, yet he has nothing but contempt for those who buy his wares. “I don’t sell my work by the yard,” he sneers
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
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Read more: The Man Who Invented ChristmasIt is no secret that I love to review Christmas Movies. I am especially fond of the Charles Dickens timeless classic A Christmas Carol, and have watched and reviewed most of the renditions.
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Hard Boiled Dicks: Goodnight, My Love (1972)
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Read more: Hard Boiled Dicks: Goodnight, My Love (1972)You’ve seen the types in movies over the years. Tough relentless men, searching out the truth no matter where it takes them. They walk down the mean streets of New York, Denver, Seattle, and yes, LA. They are untouched by the corruption of society, keeping true to their own private code.
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Christmas Evil (1980)
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Read more: Christmas Evil (1980)This movie was originally billed as a routine Christmas Horror/Slasher flick. Somewhere along the way, it altered course. Christmas Evil became darker, creepier and more sinister as time passed. The character development elevated it into a Holiday Classic of incremental insanity. This was one of the strangest films I have ever seen.
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Carol For Another Christmas (1964)
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Read more: Carol For Another Christmas (1964)This is yet another obscure version of A Christmas Carol, set in the Cold War Period of the 1960’s. A Rod Sterling for TV production.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
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Read more: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)The original How the Grinch Stole Christmas! was a charming little short animation that was written by Dr. Seuss and narrated by the late great Boris Karloff. The absolutely fabulous Grinch Song is not sung by Boris Karloff
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“Kraven the Hunter”
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Read more: “Kraven the Hunter”It was less than two months ago when, in my review of Venom: The Last Dance, I advised the folks at Sony to keep their celebratory Sony Spider-Man Universe (SSU) champagne on ice.
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Love Actually (2003)
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Read more: Love Actually (2003)My first review for this venerable site was over five years ago, when I covered the now largely forgotten low point of Danny Boyle’s career, Yesterday, including the following: “I only realized after suffering through two hours of this dreck that its writer also scripted and directed Love Actually.
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A Christmas Carol (2000)
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Read more: A Christmas Carol (2000)A Christmas Carol (2000) is an obscure version of the classic movie that I love so well. Here we do not have Ebeneezer, but Eddie Scrooge, played ruthlessly by Ross Kemp, as a 21st century version of a loan shark in England.
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The Unsung: Malena, Alice Adams
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Read more: The Unsung: Malena, Alice AdamsEnter Malena. A black woman in 1935, she is, unavoidably, a domestic. A hired gun to keep whitey from having to do the grunt work. A woman of few words and even fewer signs of underlying humanity.