Month: August 2019
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Another look at Quinten Tarantino, and The Hateful Eight
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Read more: Another look at Quinten Tarantino, and The Hateful EightI saw The Hateful Eight upon its release a few years ago, despite the fact it was a Quinten Tarantino film. I am not a fan of his, but it was advertised as a Western and I am a huge fan of Westerns. However, considering Ruthless’ own Goat seems to like it, I allowed it…
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Ruthless Preseason 3: Out of Luck Edition
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Read more: Ruthless Preseason 3: Out of Luck EditionThis will only be my third season of writing at Ruthless. I am hardly an institution around here, not some grizzled veteran beat-writer type. Respectable, yes. Consistent, absolutely. Lust-inducing, sure, I get that all the time. But I’m not part of the furniture, nor some mythical Bob Considine supplemented with a chiseled physique and a…
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Don’t Let Go
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Read more: Don’t Let GoOr, you DIE, DIe, Die, die… I went into Don’t Let Go knowing nothing more than the title, a very brief plot summary on IMDb – “After a man’s family dies in what appears to be a murder, he gets a phone call from one of the dead, his niece. He’s not sure if she’s…
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Ruthless NFL 2019 Preseason Preview Part II: (She Gives) Great Helmet
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Read more: Ruthless NFL 2019 Preseason Preview Part II: (She Gives) Great HelmetThis is complete bullshit. I am being forced to write this column under protest because the powers that be at Ruthlessco International Unlimited are forcing me to abandon my trusty Chromebook laptop after more than ten years of faithful service! Granted, it was responsible for the occasional inadvertent doublespace, thus mucking up the ASCII characters…
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Loss Prevention (2018)
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Read more: Loss Prevention (2018)Here we have another low, low budget movie starring John Wells and Al Snow. However, I cannot go any further without mentioning another “Wells”. Vernon Wells. What? No, I’m not kidding you. Vernon Wells is in this movie as the evil CEO of R & P. The I don’t need the girl Vernon Wells in…
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Ruthless NFL 2019 Preseason Preview Featuring Detailed Hall Of Fame Game Breakdown!
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Read more: Ruthless NFL 2019 Preseason Preview Featuring Detailed Hall Of Fame Game Breakdown!Just kidding. It’s the Hall of Fame Game for Christ’s sake. You can’t – or, to be adamantly clear, you should not under any circumstances – gamble on it. Come on, you knew that already. You know where you are. We don’t suffer fools around here, gladly or otherwise. This is a gambling column. Don’t…
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Beginner’s Guide to Online Bingo
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Read more: Beginner’s Guide to Online BingoOnline bingo is one of the world’s most famous past times, and for good reason. Not only is it an amazingly fun game to play, it’s remarkably easy to pick up too, with its simplicity being one of the key factors behind its continued success. While there are many experienced online bingo players out there,…
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The Angry Birds Movie 2
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Read more: The Angry Birds Movie 2You recognize this film by the way it hits your windshield. A hallmark of a good PG movie is an ability to appeal to both kids and adults. Smart writing and mature jokes for the adults; smart writing, bright colors, and silliness for the kids. Pixar has mastered the art of blending all of those…
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
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Read more: Scary Stories to Tell in the DarkA creepy throwback. I wonder what kind of childhood Guillermo del Toro had? The creatures that he comes up with for his movies and television shows suggest his childhood was…not good? Haunted? Disturbed? When I found out he was involved with the making of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, I immediately nixed the…
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The Kitchen
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Read more: The KitchenA woman’s place. The Kitchen might be one of my favorite cases for guessing what the movie is about when you only know the title. The Kitchen could be a spinoff of Downton Abbey. It could be a Bobby Flay documentary. It could be a horror film in which Gordon Ramsey murders the entire cast…