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Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
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Read more: Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) You would think that the mash-up of Superman and the Santa Claus mythos would, at the very least, be interesting. You would be wrong. The Christopher Reeves starring Superman was such a hit that the producers decided to ape the origin story arc and apply it to Santa Claus. Interesting…
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Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special (1988)
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Read more: Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special (1988)Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special (1988) O.K., I know what you are thinking and I don’t blame you. This Christmas Review stuff has gone too far. On another, more rational day, I might agree with you. Today is not one of those days as I present Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special (1988). As I sieved through what…
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A Guide To Sports Betting On The New NBA Season
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Read more: A Guide To Sports Betting On The New NBA SeasonA Guide To Sports Betting On The New NBA Season The new NBA season has just begun, and you can feel the excitement everywhere you go. The audience for the new season completely varies, from those casually interested in the basketball sport, to those who are die-hard fans watching every single game like a hawk.…
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Murder on the Orient Express: Another Look
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Read more: Murder on the Orient Express: Another LookMurder on the Orient Express: Another Look The seventies were the Golden Ages for Agatha Christie novels being translated into movies for the big screen. Sure, one can argue that there were many versions of her novels or stories already, like 10 Little Indians, which had already been done many times, and with different titles.…
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Tree Man (2016)
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Read more: Tree Man (2016)Tree Man (2016) Christmas is without a doubt the most celebrated, written about and confusing holiday that we celebrate in The United States. This has all been covered before in earlier rants, so I won’t write an essay about how it is a hijacked holiday. It is needless to say that the same people who…
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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)
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Read more: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) Oh those wacky Finns! Here at Ruthless we have had a long and strange relationship with Finland. This started it all and the shit-storm still rages 15 years later. Back in the day, viewers from Finland had to report to a special section of the now-defunct Roofless Forum for…
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NFL Week 10: New York or Chicago Style Edition
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Read more: NFL Week 10: New York or Chicago Style EditionPizza? War? Pizza war? Indeed, the absurdities abound as there is apparently a pizza war in effect now, raging for the soul of the National Football League. The short version goes like this: Self-made Evangelical Christian millionaire and insufferable prick Papa John Schnatter, whose underpaid and uninsured employees make the official pizza of the NFL,…
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Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
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Read more: Murder on the Orient Express (2017)Who wants a moustache ride? It’s time for another edition of “Should You Have Remade That Movie?” For those new to our game, it’s simple. We ask a few easy questions and determine how wrong it was to remake a movie. Tonight’s contestant is Murder on the Orient Express. Now, let’s play “Should You Have…
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Krampus (2015)
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Read more: Krampus (2015)Krampus (2015) is the second Christmas Horror movie involving this horned Christmas Devil that I have reviewed this season. I must admit that the old boy is starting to grow on me. Krampus is the mythological half-goat, half-human, who is the Yuletide equivalent of the floggings will continue until morale improves. This Christmas anti-Santa is…
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Bad Santa 2 (2016)
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Read more: Bad Santa 2 (2016)Bad Santa 2 (2016) The original Bad Santa was a hilarious gut-punch to everything traditionally Christmas, from the nauseating movie It’s a Wonderful Life to Santa’s plastic reindeer. Bad Santa 2 was just a 13 year later gut-punch to the viewer, one that no one needed. Sequels, especially much delayed sequels are always suspect, but…