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The 2020 Oscars: Some Picks And Thoughts From Team Ruthless
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Read more: The 2020 Oscars: Some Picks And Thoughts From Team RuthlessYes, I know, it is hard to imagine that it is Academy Award season again. Due to plummeting ratings, I don’t know what the Academy has in store for us this year. 2019 started out slow, but ended with some pretty awesome movies. Things are changing, with Netflix becoming a major movie player + a…
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Ace In the Hole
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Read more: Ace In the HoleIf it took losing his family to the ovens of Auschwitz (including his mother) in order for Billy Wilder to see humanity so clearly…
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A Monster’s Ode to John Welsh
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Read more: A Monster’s Ode to John WelshIn the 1970s and 1980s I worked on several movies by the Arkansas based filmmaker, Charles B. Pierce. He achieved minor fame and a cult following for his films, The Legend of Boggy Creek and The Town that Dreaded Sundown. [EDITOR’S NOTE: Both included with Amazon Prime] The Legend of Boggy Creek was a pseudo…
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Top 10 Worst Movies of 2019
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Read more: Top 10 Worst Movies of 2019How? How could one person see this many terrible movies in one year? Was I perhaps stricken with some mysterious curse? The answer is much simpler: cinematic masochism. Yes, I spent last year seeking out the worst movies I could find every bit as voraciously as I sought out the best, as I do every…
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Ezra’s Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2019
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Read more: Ezra’s Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2019As always, it is important to stress that this list is a compilation of my ten personal favorite movies of the year, and not necessarily the “best,” though I do consider the top three to be timeless, unassailable classics. The bottom three are, on the other hand, a few that I feel have not gotten…
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Heightened Your Bets with These Steps
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Read more: Heightened Your Bets with These StepsBetting is no longer an activity that relies on pure luck. Betting has evolved and expanded greatly since the advent of modern technology and the internet. Betting is no longer purely a game of chance and impossible odds like roulette and craps. Now, with the recent introduction of sports betting, there is a higher chance…
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NFL Football: Super Bowl Sunday Edition
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Read more: NFL Football: Super Bowl Sunday EditionHere we are, again. Perhaps for the last time. The next second, let alone the next year, is undefined, but there are 1000 things happening around here, every second, every day, and especially every morning when I awake to hear them pounding outward from my temples. Let’s understand each other from Jump Street; this was…
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The 1939 movie year: First in a series.
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Read more: The 1939 movie year: First in a series.A recent question on Jeopardy reminded me 1939 was a banner year for the release of the greatest number of quality films ever in a single year. Most were the product of the studio system. I will briefly discuss some of my favorites, starting with my favorite film genre, the Western. Jesse James ( “He…
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The Gentlemen
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Read more: The GentlemenTravel well indeed. Guy Ritchie needed a win. After the success of his two Sherlock Holmes films in 2009 and 2011, people largely ignored the very good The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) was an unmitigated disaster, and the Aladdin remake (2019) was a pile of shit that was…
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Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
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Read more: Portrait Of A Lady On FirePortrait of a Lady on Fire is a French film written and directed by Celine Scaimma. If ever a movie exhibits the concept of every frame being a painting, this is the one. After seeing Call Me By Your Name, I never thought that I would see a love story as touching and mesmerizing, but…