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Toddlers and Tiaras: Honey Boo Boo Child
What ever happened to America’s collective self control?
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Sleepwalkers (1992)
Stephen King movies are such an institution at this point that it occurred to me to attempt this review in the style of the 80s Action reviews here at Ruthless, with many of the same questions applying to both. Corpse Count and Novelty Deaths obviously, and in the cheesiest ones (of which Sleepwalkers is certainly…
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Red Dragon
I read a book once called, Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay. Essentially the author takes four blockbuster movies and analyzes the scripts, explaining along the way why they were such moneymakers and cultural phenomenon. Alongside Terminator 2, Dances With Wolves and Thelma and Louise is a section dealing with The Silence of the…
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The Last Hurrah #2: James Caan in Misery (1990)
Caan did much better than a lot of actors, but his lengthy career still manages to give off a whiff of disappointment. There was never any doubt about his ability, typified by an early performance as a brain-damaged ex-ball player in 1969’s The Rain People. Here he’s very good at doing what he can with…
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Spread Your Legs For Daddy: Part One
Back in my mid-twenties I was in bed with one of those lovely females making sweet love and thinking that life really wasn’t too bad when she clamped her teeth on my ear and half-snarled: “Stick it up me arse!” Now I know some men appear obsessed with snugly traversing a lady’s poo pipe, but…
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Inside Deep Throat (2005)
Watching the documentary Inside Deep Throat, while vastly entertaining, is also an unnerving and depressing experience.
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Zodiac (2007)
Despite feigned disgust and howls of self-righteous fury to the contrary, the curiosity surrounding serial killers is no mystery.
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate is one of the most endlessly fascinating paranoid thrillers ever created. Beginning its life as a 1959 novel by Richard Condon, it was adapted into a classic 1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer, which was subsequently taken out of circulation for 24 years after the assassination of JFK. Despite this quarter of…
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Spinning Plates: Part 2
Jagger in Performance (1970) & Ned Kelly (1970) Art and commerce have a weird relationship. On the face of it, it makes perfect sense to slap a pop star into a feature film, sit back and watch his or her fans gobble up the tickets. Who needs marketing when you’ve got a built-in audience? Such…
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Good God, What Were You Thinking, Girl?
There’s an extraordinary scene at the end of the pretty good 1981 slasher Eyes of a Stranger in which Jennifer Jason Leigh’s blind deaf-mute character has just regained her sight after being sexually assaulted and beaten in her home by a serial killer. The teenager has managed to turn the tables and shoot the vicious…