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Free Fire
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Read more: Free FireNever has a film made in 2017 begged more to be reviewed in the 80s Action format, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. There were more bullets flying in this movie than there were sexual innuendos. Nothing else mattered, the quotes and one-liners in Free Fire put it into the rarefied air…
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A Charlie Brown Christmas Special (1965)
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Read more: A Charlie Brown Christmas Special (1965)A Charlie Brown Christmas Special (1965) Virtually everyone is familiar with the comic strip Peanuts created by the late Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000), as well as the ancient animated Christmas TV special. The main character is Charlie Brown, who lives in a bizarro world, where the landscape is bleak and snow-packed during the winter season.…
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A Christmas Story
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Read more: A Christmas StoryAs much as I love the Scrooge classics, I must grudgingly admit that A Christmas Story is the greatest Christmas movie ever made.
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 45
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 45Movie: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) “Mendacity is the society that we live in” –Brick Cat on a Hot Tin Roof starred one of the most gorgeous couples in cinema history, but it also contained some top-notch acting, notably from Newman and Burl Ives. There were many, many memorable scenes in this masterpiece,…
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A Christmas Carol (1951)
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Read more: A Christmas Carol (1951)A Christmas Carol (1951) There are over a dozen renditions of the Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, or Scrooge, and I have reviewed several of them here at Ruthless. There is one omission, A Christmas Carol (1951)and this particular edition may very well be the best of the best, when all things are considered. At…
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It’s a Wonderful Life (1947)
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Read more: It’s a Wonderful Life (1947)It’s a Wonderful Life (1947) I rarely review movies that I genuinely detest, but I’m making an exception in this case. Think of this review as more of a warning than an assessment, if by some chance you have not watched this classic. I really dreaded re-watching the public domain issue of this pedestrian yawner…
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Elves (1989)
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Read more: Elves (1989)After watching Santa Claus (1959) and reviewing it, I was confident that things could not get any worse. With Santa’s Slay in the wings, I felt compelled to endure some other genuinely horrible movies, and it wasn’t long until I found and watched Elves. This miscarriage is available free on YouTube and it would be…
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Another Poop Story: The Desert Hamburger
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Read more: Another Poop Story: The Desert HamburgerAfter visiting the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam, we swung south to catch some of the historic Route 66 and the Mother Road museum in Kingman Arizona. Before we left, we visited Mr. D’s, a famous retro Route 66 burger and soda joint. I ordered and ate their huge cheeseburger and fries, the cheeseburger was…
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A Christmas Carol
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Read more: A Christmas CarolCelebrate or Die!
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Big Trouble In Little China (1986)
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Read more: Big Trouble In Little China (1986)Homoeroticism? None. Oh, boy, we need to talk. O.K., there was a weak attempt at redemption at the end when Jack didn’t even kiss his green-eyed girl goodbye, but by then all hope was lost. It’s complicated and confusing as we had an 80s action duo that usually meant love at first sight, but it…