Category: Movies
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Witness For the Prosecution
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Read more: Witness For the ProsecutionWitness for the Prosecution is a Billy Wilder classic based on the novel by Agatha Christie. There are many great courtroom drama movies, like 12 Angry Men, with plot surprises, turns and twists, but there is no other movie like this one for a shocking and unexpected conclusion. This film is one of the very best.…
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Naughty Postcards from a Hungarian Trashmeister
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Read more: Naughty Postcards from a Hungarian TrashmeisterSordid glory. Would you call that the defining trait of writer Joe Eszterhas’ distinctive body of work? After all, this is the man who cooked up Basic Instinct, Sliver and Showgirls in his steamy, body-filled kitchen. Most screenwriters dawdle in obscurity, even if their creative juice results in a colossal hit, but Eszterhas gained notoriety…
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Starring Debuts #25: Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future (1985)
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Read more: Starring Debuts #25: Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future (1985)Fox was a lightweight actor, his limitations exposed whenever he took on stuff with any gravity, such as a rape-objecting grunt in Casualties of War or a cokehead loser in Bright Lights, Big City. Man, does he not sit right in those two flicks, but as a bewildered Californian schoolboy frantically trying to save his…
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Poor Things
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Read more: Poor ThingsAt the very first heartbeat of this outrageously original and beautiful movie, I was hypnotized and hooked. From viewing the awful offal of the cutting room, training fledgling surgeons, to the delicious, but captivating Frankensteinean reality of Bella baby, mother and child, this project of Yorgos Lanthimos was something extra-special. A pregnant suicide was rescued…
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Starring Debuts # 24: Sissy Spacek in Badlands (1973)
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Read more: Starring Debuts # 24: Sissy Spacek in Badlands (1973)Some people need a good, hard slap to wake them the fuck up and there would be no more deserving recipient than Holly Sargis (Spacek). She’s vapid, easily led and amoral, a freckled, baton-twirling fifteen-year-old girl who barely mutters a word of protest during the murder of her father. “Are you gonna be OK?” she…
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Oscarheimer 2024
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Read more: Oscarheimer 2024Time once again for my extremely reliable, one hundred percent accurate Oscar predictions! If you want the short version, scroll right down to the end, where I recap all my predictions in a tidy column. If you want to read about the whys and wherefores and let me hedge my bets a bit, as well…
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The Phantom Menace: The 100 Things Wrong With it Edition
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Read more: The Phantom Menace: The 100 Things Wrong With it EditionMommy, Why are Jedis so gay?
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Fantastic Planet (1973)
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Read more: Fantastic Planet (1973)“In the third millennium before Kraup, the Great Zarek created the first pyramic civilization. Legend says that from his tomb he still animates the ball of life, that his body, though constantly pierced by projectiles, does not change, and that his mind has regularly traversed the skies of Ygam ever since the Draags, under his…
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Fucked-Up Films #13: Spetters (1980)
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Read more: Fucked-Up Films #13: Spetters (1980)Synopsis: A rough and raw portrayal of young Dutch lives Director: Paul Verhoeven Cast: Hans van Tongeren, Renée Soutendijk, Toon Agterberg, Maarten Spanjer, Marianne Boyer, Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé, Peter Tuinman Verhoeven can’t do too much wrong in my eyes, probably because he’s one of the most politically incorrect filmmakers of all time. Now in…
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Great Expectations (1946)
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Read more: Great Expectations (1946)Directed by David Lean. Screenplay by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan &Ronald Neame Based on the 1861 novel by Charles Dickens. With: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles (who we’ll see ten years later as a kidnapper in The Man Who Knew Too Much). Here, he is kindly blacksmith, Joe), Francis L. Sullivan as Mr. Jaggers…