Category: Reviews
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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.
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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…