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In The Company of Men
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Read more: In The Company of MenTo be blunt, everything men do is a distraction from the unshakable truth that they would rather be fucking each other.
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Broads Who Mattered: The Great Women of Cinema, Volume IV
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Read more: Broads Who Mattered: The Great Women of Cinema, Volume IVGilda Carlson (Dorothy Mackaill) is exactly the sort of pre-Code Hollywood broad they used to churn out like assembly line piston rods in the fun-filled days before the Catholics and pearl-clutchers took over the joint.
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Cobra (Seven Things I Love About….)
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Read more: Cobra (Seven Things I Love About….)If 80’s Action taught us anything, it’s that our men like it gay – very gay – and the women, well, if they’re not blissfully naked or dead, they’re firm, unalterable lesbians.
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Death Wish 3 (Seven Things I Love About….)
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Read more: Death Wish 3 (Seven Things I Love About….)When it comes to 80’s Action, nothing grates quite like a neutered police force. You know the type: cowardly, effete, more beta cuck than alpha warrior.
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The Poseidon Adventure (Seven Things I Love About…)
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Read more: The Poseidon Adventure (Seven Things I Love About…)7. Gene Hackman Yeah, buddy, I’ll see your Popeye Doyle and raise you a Rupert Anderson. And here’s a Little Bill Daggett to up the stakes. And then maybe you’ll come within a nautical mile of Rev. Frank Scott, to date the most fully realized character in Gene Hackman’s long and storied career, as well…
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Notes On A Scandal (2006)
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Read more: Notes On A Scandal (2006)Few things bore more easily than unjustified earnestness; the sort of film, for example, that pretends its meanderings and foolish plot turns are anything other than tiresome distractions
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The Unsung: Big Dick Blaque, Hardcore
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Read more: The Unsung: Big Dick Blaque, HardcoreHe enters like a hurricane, the most confident human being we’re ever likely to see. He’s a man’s man, back before the term had toxic implications.
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C.C. & Company (1970)
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Read more: C.C. & Company (1970)So instead of full-tilt Joe, unmasked and unhinged, we get the kindler, gentler variety; a man who lusts more for car parts than a woman’s anatomy, even one so inviting as the decade’s most beloved redhead.
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When Oscar Shit the Bed: Gandhi (1982)
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Read more: When Oscar Shit the Bed: Gandhi (1982)When I was much, much younger and full of the sort of idealism that fostered unending binaries – good vs evil, right vs wrong, stupid goddamn whores vs chicks who might fuck me – I was in love with Gandhi.
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: Rosario, Death Wish II
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: Rosario, Death Wish IIMake no mistake: director Michael Winner, against the desires of the actress herself (Silvana Gallardo), demanded that when she portrayed stone dead, she must be naked.