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MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION

Douglas Sirk’s Magnificent Obsession is sheer, bold ridiculousness in eye-popping Technicolor…

By Matt Cale: January 26, 2009
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BEING THERE

If there is a guiding theme to the picture, it is one that fits easily into a fortune cookie: “We are as others perceive us.” And yet…

By Matt Cale: May 6, 2008
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BAD SEED THE

Sayid.

By Matt Cale: July 19, 2007
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MYSTERIOUS SKIN

After a movie like Mysterious Skin, I always wonder how many of my fellow Americans have been sodomized by…

By Matt Cale: January 11, 2007
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MARDI GRAS: MADE IN CHINA

“Beads for boobs!”, a bearded truck driver hoots, and why not, if the young tarts can be had so cheaply?

By Matt Cale: December 29, 2006
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STAIRCASE, THE

I hadn’t experienced an emotional reversal of fortune this dramatic since discovering that the soft-featured prostitute devouring my member was…

By Matt Cale: October 27, 2006
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MAN ON THE MOON

Milos Forman’s Man on the Moon is about the only movie that could ever be made about a man like Andy.

By Matt Cale: October 13, 2006
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WRITTEN ON THE WIND

Sirk brings the immaculately overdone melodrama.

By Matt Cale: August 27, 2006
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IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

Matt Cale loves his DVD club.

By Matt Cale: July 19, 2006
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REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT

Matt Cale’s film defense is IMPREGNABLE.

By Matt Cale: June 30, 2006