Author: Ezra Stead
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Sasquatch Sunset (2024)
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Read more: Sasquatch Sunset (2024)The wordless opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick’s seminal sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the most memorable and influential of all time, but let’s be honest: it could have used more piss, shit, vomit, and fucking.
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Raiders Of the Lost Ark
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Read more: Raiders Of the Lost ArkIndiana Jones hates snakes, and Nazis. In that order.
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The Outlaw (1943)
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Read more: The Outlaw (1943)Over 80 years after its release, perhaps the best-known thing about Howard Hughes’s The Outlaw is still the controversy over how much (or how little, by today’s standards) of Jane Russell’s breasts are on display. Hughes was forced by the Hollywood Production Code Administration to remove about 30 seconds of offending footage, but even after…
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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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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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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…
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Beau Is Afraid
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Read more: Beau Is AfraidBeau is fucked, is what he is. Right from birth, when he is dropped by the doctor delivering him. The doctor denies it, but Beau’s overbearing, quintessentially Jewish mother, Mona (played by Zoe Lister-Jones in flashbacks from Beau’s childhood, and Patti LuPone when he is an adult), knows the truth. This is far from the…
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Nefarious
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Read more: NefariousAs a cinematic masochist, I will always be interested in any under-the-radar, high-concept thriller with an intriguing hook or gimmick. At best, you might discover an overlooked gem, but at worst you’ll probably still have fun at the expense of something terrible. I’m also a sucker for a movie with basically one location and only…
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Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
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Read more: Winnie the Pooh: Blood and HoneyIn its opening minutes, the children’s story-themed slasher Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey shows a hint of genuine promise. Obviously this public domain cash-grab was never going to be some masterpiece of the cinema, but in the (barely) animated opening exposition, I was reminded of the camp classic Jack Frost (not the one with Michael Keaton),…
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G(odzilla) Minus One
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Read more: G(odzilla) Minus OneWhen I was a wee lad, my father tells me, I fell asleep in protest of how long it was taking for the 1976 King Kong to get around to showing the monster. As I’ve grown older and matured in my cinematic tastes, I’ve come to appreciate the suspenseful restraint of classics like Jaws and…