Author: Dave Franklin
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Cream Turning Sour: Episode One-Schwarzenegger
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Read more: Cream Turning Sour: Episode One-SchwarzeneggerSchwarzenegger peaked in the 1980s, his legacy built on iconic performances in The Terminator, Commando and Predator. These were lean, mean flicks.
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Starring debuts #29 : Kevin Bacon in Footloose (1984)
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Read more: Starring debuts #29 : Kevin Bacon in Footloose (1984)Thanks to the sensation of 1977’s Saturday Night Fever, sleek dance movies were hot shit during the eighties. 1980’s atypical, bloody dull yet very successful Fame kicked things off before the trend peaked in popularity.
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Top 10 Movies Not To Watch Before…
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Read more: Top 10 Movies Not To Watch Before…Some movies are so bland they pretty much leave your head as the end credits roll. Others contain such unnerving scenes… like the opening of Jaws … that they are never forgotten.
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The Not Quite #10: Heat (1995)
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Read more: The Not Quite #10: Heat (1995)Michael Mann has been making films for more than four decades. He’s no Kubrick, but the similarity of his painstaking approach means it’s pretty straightforward to get up to speed with his concise back catalog.
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Starring Debuts #28: Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass (1961)
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Read more: Starring Debuts #28: Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass (1961)Bud Stamper (a 23-year-old Beatty) and Deanie (a bewitching Natalie Wood) excel at capturing such sexual repression, desperate to get it on.
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See You in Disneyland
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Read more: See You in DisneylandTed Bundy would have to be one of my favorite serial killers. How can you not love the endlessly fascinating little scamp, given his yen for necrophilia and keeping severed heads as trinkets?
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Starring Debuts # 27: Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
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Read more: Starring Debuts # 27: Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)Keaton had loads of juicy roles throughout the seventies, including two Godfathers and all that excellent Woody Allen stuff, but the financially successful, bafflingly titled Goodbar was the first to truly put the focus on her. In many ways it’s a bad, overlong movie and I’d argue she’s miscast coz it sure is weird seeing…
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C’mon, Billy
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Read more: C’mon, BillyC’mon Billy, Come to me, You know I’m waiting, I love you endlessly, C’mon Billy, You’re the only one… These mania-infused lyrics are from a glorious PJ Harvey paean and it’s only when she goes on to reveal ‘having his son’ that I twig she isn’t singing about the late, great Billy Wilder. But even…
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A Sly Appreciation: Part 3
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Read more: A Sly Appreciation: Part 3Judge Dredd slaps on a codpiece, platform boots and some plastic shoulder pads, looking like a glum Gary Glitter unsure if he’s off to give a concert or play American football.
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A Sly Appreciation: Part 2
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Read more: A Sly Appreciation: Part 2First Blood is a fave, Part II isn’t, although I’d still argue it’s a must see. The sleek, adrenalin-pumping original, in which Rambo only killed one man, even managed to flirt with plausibility on occasion, but the sequel turns him into a rightwing comic book superhero