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Molly’s Game
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Read more: Molly’s GameMolly Blum was not the wife of the fictional Leopold Blum in the unreadable book Ulysses, but a real-life Olympic skier. She was also a daddy-baiting, Freud-hating, and impossibly gorgeous savant with a strange, situational ethics moral compass. Instead of pursuing a career in law or another high-paying discipline, she decided to stick it to…
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NFL Wildcard Weekend: Lifebuoy For The Commander In Chief Edition
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Read more: NFL Wildcard Weekend: Lifebuoy For The Commander In Chief EditionWell ladies and gentlemen, here we are. Saturday and Sunday bring us the divisional rounds, the first playoff games where everyone starts watching. Typically, anyway. The general idea is that these games feature the teams most likely to play in February, so the casuals come out of the woodwork. Unfortunately, so too do the bandwagon…
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The Commuter
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Read more: The CommuterLike Murder on the Orient Express, but not. Happy 2018 everybody. As we welcome in 2018, I’m hoping to spend a lot of executive time in my shithole. If you were wishing for 2018 to be a fresh start, keep on wishing everybody. On behalf of all non-deplorable Americans, I apologize to Haiti, El Salvador,…
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From The Mailbag: Reviews of 2017 films not reviewed by Ruthless Reviews
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Read more: From The Mailbag: Reviews of 2017 films not reviewed by Ruthless Reviews[Editor’s Note: As I pointed out last year, we love to get mail from our readers. We especially love hate mail and whiny mewlings (I WILL BE MAKING A FORMAL COMPLAINT!) when one of our reviewers scathes a shitty movie. Occasionally we get good, coherent and useful feedback. Here is a belated response from one…
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The ABC’s of Animals Who Have Sexist Or Politically Incorrect Names
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Read more: The ABC’s of Animals Who Have Sexist Or Politically Incorrect NamesAholes, Boobies, & Cocks -or- The ABC’s of Animals Who Have Sexist Or Politically Incorrect Names Aholes are silvery fish who live in the Indo-Pacific part of the world (near Hawaii). They spend their days swimming together in schools, but at night they go off to eat by themselves. I guess everyone needs some…
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NFL Playoffs: Wild Card Weekend Edition
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Read more: NFL Playoffs: Wild Card Weekend EditionI haven’t read the Wolff book yet. I read the New York Magazine excerpt, of course, and the Axios thing that reads just a little too dismissive, like they’re pissed that they got scooped. As can be seen, they sneer at Wolff for burning sources – and sweet Jesus, did that dude burn some sources…
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Movies that Ruthless Reviews eagerly anticipates in 2018
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Read more: Movies that Ruthless Reviews eagerly anticipates in 2018Movies that Ruthless Reviews eagerly anticipates in 2018 2017 was a pretty good year for movies. Kevin covered the great, the guilty pleasures and the ugly movies in this thorough review. Team Ruthless also threw in their 2 cents, so we are now turning the page and are looking forward to more of the same…
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My Year in Movies – 2017 Edition
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Read more: My Year in Movies – 2017 EditionSomething smells rotten. Is it just me or does 2017 feel like it has lasted about a hundred years? Between hurricanes, forest fires, racists, sexual harassers, gun massacres, and the systematic destruction of reason, decency, and ethical governing by the elephant party and the worst president this country has ever seen, I’m surprised aliens haven’t…
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NFL Week 17: Holy Hell, is it Really Week 17? Edition
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Read more: NFL Week 17: Holy Hell, is it Really Week 17? EditionNFL Week 17: Holy Hell, is it Really Week 17? Edition Okay, I will Face the Music. Call It What You Want but remember, I am still the New Kid around here, but damn those Games. Let’s Try It Again. I promise that we Got It (The Right Stuff) and Step By Step we are…
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Downsizing
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Read more: DownsizingDownsizing 2 hrs 15 minutes, R for Naked Dudes on Slabs Fair Value of Downsizing? $5.00. Worth a rental, a Redbox. As fun and clever a modernization of Jonathan Swift as can be hoped for. Who is this film perfect for? Alexander Payne’s (Sideways, Election) latest comedy is abundant on whimsy but short on jokes.…