Category: Features
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American Assassin
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Read more: American AssassinMmmmm. Ears. Long live the 80’s. When the climax of American Assassin completed, I immediately knew I would be writing a review in Ruthless Review’s 80’s Action Movie format. American Assassin checks off all the boxes and even reminds us of other standard components – the training montage, bomb timers, and crazy Michael Keaton, among…
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NFL Week 2: What Happened? Hillary Clinton Edition
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Read more: NFL Week 2: What Happened? Hillary Clinton EditionNFL Week 2: What Happened? Hillary Clinton Edition Damn you goons! I asked you last week to be decent to one another, at least in terms of how your behavior affects the game we all love. Yet, an hour or so after the column goes up, here comes video of that dumbass Dr. Pepper Guy…
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It
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Read more : ItLess is more. In one of the weirder quirks of movie scheduling, two Stephen King adaptations released within a month of each other. The first – The Dark Tower – was a bit of a disappointment financially and a major flop among critics. Personally, I thought it was acceptable. Now comes a new take on…
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NFL Season Week One: Mother Nature’s Name Is IRMA Edition
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Read more: NFL Season Week One: Mother Nature’s Name Is IRMA EditionNFL Season Week One: Mother Nature’s Name Is IRMA Edition They say if you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life. Well, truth be told I do love gambling on football and writing about it. I have to level with you though. Making a bunch of jokes after a…
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Stand By Me (1986)
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Read more: Stand By Me (1986)Stand By Me (1986) was one of those magical movies about growing up that might come along only once in a lifetime. Stand By Me takes place in the Summer of 1959 and was based on the short story The Body, written by Stephen King. The story and the movie are a rare non-horror ode…
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Logan Lucky
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Read more: Logan LuckyLogan Lucky is a heist film, and with any heist film, you follow the money. In this case the money was not in Las Vegas or New York City. The perpetrators were not slick professional face-men with high-tech mysterious plans to get the goods. In Logan Lucky we are introduced to Redneck Culture and NASCAR.…
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Butterfield 8
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Read more: Butterfield 8The Golden Age of Prostitution
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The Only Living Boy in New York
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Read more: The Only Living Boy in New YorkPretentious is as pretentious does. It is not a good sign for a movie when one of the first things the audience hears is how New York just isn’t New York any more. I’m not sure if New Yorkers know this, but the vast majority of people in this country don’t live in New York…
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The Hitman’s Bodyguard
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Read more: The Hitman’s BodyguardThe Hitman’s Bodyguard. Let’s get this out of the way and get onto the review. Most professional critics, including some of my favorites, hated this movie. Their points are all valid, but I think that the points that they are so critical of are points that are not relevant to what the movie actually accomplished.…
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
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Read more: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of ShadowsWe doubt Sir Arthur Conan Doyle imagined his Sherlock Holmes quite the way Guy Ritchie portrays him on screen. Would he have minded? Now that is the question to pose. We’ve already seen Ritchie’s Holmes in the first movie released in 2009, a daring approach towards a much loved character. All the traditional elements were…