Category: Features
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Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises)
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Read more: Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises)Miyazaki’s most mature and introspective film. It’s not a film for every child, but it’s the film to show if you want your kids to dream of being engineers instead of princesses. Kaze Tachinu is to Miyazaki’s career as Ran is to Kurosawa’s- an autumnal, meditative reprise of the director’s major philosophical themes, one that…
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Juan Does Oscar
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Read more: Juan Does OscarA Ruthless Guide to Some of the 2014 Academy Awards Failures
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Pompeii (2014 version)
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Read more: Pompeii (2014 version)You either want to enjoy tens of thousands people dying in a fiery holocaust, or you don’t.
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August: Osage County
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Read more: August: Osage CountyIf I wanted to see a bunch of drunken, drug-abusing, incestuous, adulterous, hypocrites shouting at each other while breaking crockery, I’d attend a family reunion.
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The Monuments Men
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Read more: The Monuments MenThe question is phrased as: is making great art a thing worth dying for? Clooney’s film goes further: is it worthwhile to risk the lives of young men for the sake of preserving great works of art?
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
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Read more: Henry: Portrait of a Serial KillerFirst things first, I don’t know how this film has slipped under the Ruthless Review Radar for so long, because this dark and terrifying movie contains one of the most Ruthless characters of all time. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was christened to be a very low budget $100,000 horror flick, but the final product…
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Her (Spike Jonze 2013)
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Read more: Her (Spike Jonze 2013)If you want a vision of the future, as Orwell said, imagine a weeping mustachioed man-child masturbating into the input socket of a sighing iPad- forever.
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The Siren Song of Brendan Fraser Movies
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Read more: The Siren Song of Brendan Fraser MoviesFraser’s special pronunciation of the word, “penis?” (He pronounces it like, “tennis,” if I remember correctly.) Outstanding.
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The ABC’s of Sales
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Read more: The ABC’s of SalesTo see the Top Ten Movies about Salesmen, click here. Always Be Closing-Always Be Closing, ALWAYS BE CLOSING! These are those famous words from Alec Baldwin in Mamet’s masterpiece Glengarry Glen Ross. If you have ever been in Sales, you have probably heard a speech like this one, but never has one been more cold-blooded,…
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The ABC’s of Marriage
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Read more: The ABC’s of MarriageFor Other Great ABC Rants click here! Attorneys– Eventually you will need one. Why are you starting off this thing in such a negative fashion? Why immediately poison the well? Well, in America the divorce rates are shrinking, but so are the marriage rates, so deal with the fact that there are twice as many…