Category: Reviews
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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.
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In the Heat of the Night (1967)
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Read more: In the Heat of the Night (1967)There’s a brief scene in Norman Jewisons In the Heat of the Night that won’t send anyone scrambling for their film school textbook, but it’s quiet, gracious power never fails to move me. It’s not flashy, or inventive, or even startling, but its simplicity of tone and character reveals more in its few minutes than…
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The Unsung: Delores Purdy, In the Heat of the Night
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Read more: The Unsung: Delores Purdy, In the Heat of the NightDelores is pregnant. It’s uncertain whether or not this is her maiden voyage, but the odds are decidedly against it. It’s practically an article of faith that she’s on a first name basis with the local abortionist
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The Unsung: Howard Cosell, Bananas
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Read more: The Unsung: Howard Cosell, BananasWhen Howard Cosell died on April 23, 1995, at the age of 77, the famed cadence of the world’s most indelible broadcaster was forever silenced. More than that, though, America lost its purpose, its very raison d’etre.
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The Lost Boys
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Read more: The Lost BoysThe Lost Boys is probably my favorite vampire movie of all time, if I’m being honest with myself. It’s certainly the one I’ve seen the most over the years, ever since that wonderful first late-night TV viewing as a child still young enough to be a bit disturbed by the over-the-top bloodletting in its third…
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The Great Pumpkin and the Tragic Piety of Linus
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Read more: The Great Pumpkin and the Tragic Piety of LinusI was asked what I like to watch for Halloween, what scares me and what do I watch to be scared, and I had to think about it because I usually don’t watch anything for Halloween.
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Venom: The Last Dance
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Read more: Venom: The Last DanceWith the success of Venom ($856 million box office) in 2018, Sony Pictures executives were probably clinking champagne glasses, fully confident that their fledgling Sony Spider-Man Universe (SSU) was well-positioned for long-term success.
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Inherent Vice (2014)
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Read more: Inherent Vice (2014)Inherent Vice is what Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye would be like is the detectives were the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (Google it, Gen Xers).
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The Unsung: Conal Cochran, Halloween III
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Read more: The Unsung: Conal Cochran, Halloween IIIGive me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to kill children….
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Starring Debuts #3: Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween (1978)
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Read more: Starring Debuts #3: Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween (1978)The most surprising thing about Jamie Lee Curtis’ career-launching turn as Laurie Strode in this late seventies slasher is how dull she is for nearly all of it. And I don’t mean dull in an interesting way.