Author: Ezra Stead
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Kinds of Kindness (2024)
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Read more: Kinds of Kindness (2024)None of the various characters in the three short films that comprise this wildly original anthology behave in ways seen by normal society as “kind,” but the odd and often disturbing “noble deeds” they do are all rooted in a desire for “kindness,”
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Big Shark (2023)
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Read more: Big Shark (2023)The Main Cinema in Minneapolis, which hosted the long-awaited Minnesota premiere of Tommy Wiseau’s Big Shark last weekend, serves strong whiskey cocktails in cans at the concession stand. Ordering one, I thought twice and said, “Better make it two; it’s a Tommy Wiseau movie.”
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Movie Geeks Manifesto
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Read more: Movie Geeks Manifesto“My love of cinema supersedes all moral considerations.” -Alfred Hitchcock
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
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Read more: Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaTo call Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga a prequel is reductive, as the term tends to imply a sort of retroactive reverse engineering of what made an original work successful, or an unnecessary cash-grab
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Aku wa sonzai shinai: Evil Does Not Exist
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Read more: Aku wa sonzai shinai: Evil Does Not ExistEvil Does Not Exist, the latest feature from celebrated auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi, has a title reminiscent of a horror movie, much like Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite.
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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.