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Midnight Cowboy
Movies have been often characterized as innovative, ground-breaking, trend-setting or wildly original, and these terms can be overused.
40 Years of Death Wish 3: A Celebration
It is almost hard to fathom, but it has been 40 years since the most violent 80’s Action movie ever.
The Terminator (1984)
Drop your socks and grab your cocks. In the very first scene in the movie we have a totally naked Arnold…
Gone Girl (2014)
“Love: a temporary insanity curable by marriage.” – Ambrose Bierce
RANTS
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Time Has Come Today: Not the Chamber’s Brothers Edition
Read more: Time Has Come Today: Not the Chamber’s Brothers EditionAs we age, time accelerates rapidly. When we are 4 years old, 2 years is half of our life. When we are 75, 2 years are only 2% of our life, a huge difference.
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Confession Of A Cat Murderer
Read more: Confession Of A Cat MurdererCall the cops or Sarah McLachlan or whomever is in charge of keeping the heads on stray cats; this is happening
THE ABC’s
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The ABC’s of the New Testament: Who’s Your Daddy Edition
Read more: The ABC’s of the New Testament: Who’s Your Daddy EditionAlpha & Omega Quoting Jesus in the bizarre book of Revelation: “I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. (Revelation 22:13) Christians gleefully point to a verse in the Old Testament (Isaiah 44:6) and make claims of fulfilled prophecy and proof that Jesus is indeed God. Using claims, directly copped from earlier…
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The ABC’s Of The New Testament-Part 2: Analyzing Jesus Edition
Read more: The ABC’s Of The New Testament-Part 2: Analyzing Jesus EditionMost Christians and many non-Christians have a perception of Jesus as a pacifist, a bringer of hope, and a teacher of humility. He was a healer and preached to help the poor and to love your neighbor. However, what do the verses in the New Testament actually reveal about this Jesus character?
MOVIES
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Target Earth (1954)
Read more: Target Earth (1954)Here we have yet another ‘50s Sc-Fi Robot movie. Just when I thought that the robot situation couldn’t get any worse, it did. I present, yet again, Target Earth.
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Men of Consequence, Volume IX: Jackie Gleason, The Hustler (1961)
Read more: Men of Consequence, Volume IX: Jackie Gleason, The Hustler (1961)I could spend hours extolling the genius of The Hustler, a film so flawlessly conceived, written, acted, and directed, that for its 134 minutes, I’m willing to embrace the world as worth saving, given that it produced this.
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Obsession (2025)
Read more: Obsession (2025)For his stunning theatrical feature debut, writer/director/editor Curry Barker drew inspiration not directly from the obvious source material of W.W. Jacobs’s classic short story The Monkey’s Paw, but from the now-classic Halloween episode of The Simpsons inspired by it.
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Early Days: Part One
Read more: Early Days: Part OneI’ve met a handful of folk who insist old movies are boring. They don’t like stuff from cinema’s greatest decade, the 1970s, because it’s slow or the special effects aren’t as good or the hairdos are silly
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Cocktail (1988): From the Ruthless Archives
Read more: Cocktail (1988): From the Ruthless ArchivesCruise and his elderly mentor Bryan Brown are such cash-chasing, monumental twats in this massive box-office hit that it’s nigh on impossible to look away.
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The 10 Greatest Hats in Action Movie History (And Why They Ruled)
Read more: The 10 Greatest Hats in Action Movie History (And Why They Ruled)A great hat in an action movie is never just a hat. It’s shorthand for everything we need to know about a character before they say a word, their attitude, their era, their swagger, their danger.
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Bull Durham (1988): From the Ruthless Archives
Read more: Bull Durham (1988): From the Ruthless ArchivesBull Durham may very well be the best of the best, just because of the sizzling performances of Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner.
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King Dinosaur (1955)
Read more: King Dinosaur (1955)Somehow, someway, and with some sort of mysterious methodology, a new planet has appeared in the Goldilocks Belt of our own Solar System. Yes, and between Earth and Mars!
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The Hitcher (1986): From the Ruthless Archives
Read more: The Hitcher (1986): From the Ruthless ArchivesA continuous string of all the nightmares of the long drive. Rutger Hauer is a revelation, less man than terrible angel of hatred in this tense 80s Western Gothic.
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