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The Drop
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Read more: The DropThe Drop is a tight and intriguing movie starring the late, great James Gandolfini and Tom Hardy. It is not surprising that it is one of the best movies of 2014. The movie is based on a short story about an animal rescue, but its essence was really about the sparsely-revealed forces that drive Bob,…
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Sita Sings the Blues- 2008
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Read more: Sita Sings the Blues- 200882 minutes Fair Value of Sita Sings the Blues: $10.00. Sita Sings the Blues is a distinctive animation debut, showcasing a variety of styles and aesthetics. I’d say it’s an excellent stoner animation for college bars looking for a weird visual on the background TVs. It’s a good pop culture primer for the most basic…
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Piranha Sharks
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Read more: Piranha SharksPiranha Sharks. It has come to this. Normally I would not even be exposed to this movie, but I got a nice e-mail from Benjamin Kanes deploring the latest pile of shark shit from Asylum, in the form of one Sharknado 2. He threw it down and said that they had done better with their…
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Boyhood
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Read more: BoyhoodI know that a lot has been written about the making of Boyhood but I think that few really comprehend the almost miraculous scope of this movie’s achievements. For one thing, not only did Linklater produce a masterpiece with one brilliant child star performance, he did it with TWO, and over the amazing period of…
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Guardians of the Galaxy
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Read more: Guardians of the GalaxyDue to my advancing age, increasing senility and just bitter disdain for any kind of comic book based film, my expectations for Guardians of the Galaxy were low. Yes, I scanned the glowing reviews and watched the trailers, things looked very promising, a canÂt miss hit of a summer blockbuster was at hand. Even though…
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A Most Wanted Man
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Read more: A Most Wanted ManNone of us really get to know whether anything we do is worth a damn to the world as a whole, or even to those we care about
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Sharknado 2
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Read more: Sharknado 2*Sharknado 1 review is here* I vividly remember a sweltering Saturday night in July of 1975 when my wife and I stood in line with a couple of thousand other people at the Park Theater in Memphis, Tn. We finally procured our tickets, found a couple of empty seats and I purchased two large Cokes…
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Rage (aka Tokarev)
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Read more: Rage (aka Tokarev)Nicolas Cage.
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
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Read more: Dawn of the Planet of the ApesThe central theme of this film is that while assholes may not always triumph, they will always be present, and they will always do enough to ensure that there will be no lasting peace or understanding between the races.
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22 Jump Street
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Read more: 22 Jump Street22 Jump Street is not as clever as Hot Fuzz, but it’s not as slapstick and pun driven as the The Naked Gun franchise.