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Written on the Wind (1956)
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Read more: Written on the Wind (1956)Sirk brings the immaculately overdone melodrama.
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Cocktail (1988)
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Read more: Cocktail (1988)Cruise will perhaps never equal the homoerotic explosion of Top Gun, but his indulgent turn in 1988’s Cocktail is close behind…
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Scenes From a Marriage
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Read more: Scenes From a MarriageAs one essay I read stated, Bergman has moved from “Does God exist? to Does love exist?”
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The Misunderstood: Lesbian Prison Guard, Caged (1950)
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Read more: The Misunderstood: Lesbian Prison Guard, Caged (1950)In a sadistic women’s prison teeming with lesbians, no one can hear you scream.
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
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Read more: The Life and Times of Judge Roy BeanJohn Milius is a fascist. Zen fascist, if we’re a slave to accuracy, but self-described and self-appointed nonetheless, having spent an entire career of bearded bravado lecturing lesser mortals on their effete passivity in the face of jackboots, and cock-first supremacy.
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Nashville (1975)
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Read more: Nashville (1975)Having seen this film at least five times, I’m only now coming to terms with its brilliance…
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If I Did It: Confessions of The Killer
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Read more: If I Did It: Confessions of The KillerIt took thirteen years, repeat viewings of The Naked Gun, and a hastily ghostwritten confession passing as fantasy, but I’ve finally come around to O.J. Simpson’s position.
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Goat: A Memoir by Brad Land
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Read more: Goat: A Memoir by Brad LandWritten as if the author were attempting to channel the very worst components of Ernest Hemingway and Cormac McCarthy.
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Gunga Din
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Read more: Gunga DinWhite Man’s Burden…