Category: Reviews
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Finding Bigfoot(2011)
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Read more: Finding Bigfoot(2011)America is a country of masochists wanting nothing more than to be tied down, beat with fly swatters and be forced to choke down the hot, dripping load of whatever con artist we’re buying into at the moment.
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Soul Plane
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Read more: Soul PlaneMore damaging than repealing the 13th Amendment, and more harmful to the cause of civil rights than forcing the South return to lynching as official policy, this racist, sexist, homophobic hate-fest is even more infuriating because it coasts on its untouchable status. Attach a white director to a project of this kind and Jesse Jackson…
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Starring Debuts # 22: Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian (1982)
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Read more: Starring Debuts # 22: Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian (1982)Arnie actually made his starring debut in 1970’s Hercules in New York (in which he must have been about sixteen) but I’m going to ignore it because it’s a cheapie load of embarrassing rubbish.
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Ezra’s Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2023
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Read more: Ezra’s Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2023EDITOR’S NOTE: At Ruthless, we consider the Oscars as a lost cause, so Ezra and Kevin give our readers their own favorites, no gold statue required.
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Nyad
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Read more: Nyad“Do you know how exhausting you can be as a friend?” These words drop, with bruised affection, from the mouth of athletic legend Diana Nyad’s best friend and confidante-cum-coach Bonnie Stoll, in the third act break of Netflix Studios’ 2023 biopic, Nyad. Even if you have never felt like saying this to someone, or if…
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12 Monkeys
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Read more: 12 MonkeysThe year is the future. Humans now lives underground because a deadly virus is present topside. This is the virus that wiped out nearly everybody and forced the survivors underground. James Cole “volunteers” to go backwards in time to try and find out who created the virus
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Fucked-Up Films #11: Kids (1995)
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Read more: Fucked-Up Films #11: Kids (1995)Synopsis: Contraception disguised as moviemaking. Who the hell would want to reproduce after sitting through this one?
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Barton Fink (1991)
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Read more: Barton Fink (1991)Barton Fink is one of my favorite Coen Brothers films. This assessment is not shared by many, Coen Brothers fans or not. This is easy to understand, as Barton Fink is one of the Coen’s most enigmatic works of art. To this day the Coen Brothers have chosen not to explain the film, and years…
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Subtext Cinema: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
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Read more: Subtext Cinema: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)My sociology degree tells me that director intent doesn’t matter.
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The Zone of Interest
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Read more: The Zone of Interest“The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities…