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Birdemic: Shock and Terror
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Read more: Birdemic: Shock and TerrorBirdemic: Shock and Terror was clearly made without the benefit of anyone who knew absolutely anything about filmmaking within a hundred yards of the set. Witness production values and acting that make Tommy Wiseau’s notorious 2003 classic The Room look like a legitimate masterpiece. Witness sound editing and mixing apparently done by a pair of…
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Matters of Survival: A Note on In a Lonely Place & Bigger Than Life
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Read more: Matters of Survival: A Note on In a Lonely Place & Bigger Than LifeIn a Lonely Place (1950) and Bigger Than Life (1956), two of Nicholas Ray’s finest films, are about two men made to feel “ten feet tall” in order to survive. For Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart) in Place, it happens in a war; World War II, to be precise. For Ed Avery (James Mason) in Life,…
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Beethoven (1992)
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Read more: Beethoven (1992)Despite evidence to the contrary, much of it written by me, I am not a monster. Like virtually any human being, I have certainly been known to find dogs charming, but I am happy the building in which I live only allows cats because I would rather see my neighbors’ pets than hear them, and…
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Carnival Of Souls (1962)
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Read more: Carnival Of Souls (1962)Carnival of Souls is one of the 50 horror movies included in the Amazon movie bundle (still available!) that I purchased years ago. Most of those movies were more laughable than horror, and really cheesy affairs, like The Beast Of Yucca Flats. Others were well made and effective, even if they were on a low…
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Un Coeur en Hiver (1992) (A Heart In Winter)
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Read more: Un Coeur en Hiver (1992) (A Heart In Winter)I was asked what was a great movie about love? Now I’m no expert on love, but I do recognize great films every once and awhile. Check out this magnificent French film. Available at Prime Video. This is a wonderful French film, and not your usual love story. Boy, it’s never a good thing to…
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Ezra’s Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2020
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Read more: Ezra’s Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2020Allow me to be the absolute first to say, 2020 was a strange year, and not least of all for movies. Beyond the fact that I no longer work in the industry after 20 years of doing almost nothing else for a living, there came a time about a month ago when critics began dropping…
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3 of the Worst Player Busts in NFL History
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Read more: 3 of the Worst Player Busts in NFL HistoryNFL Draft Day is synonymous with ‘hope for my team day.’ But unfortunately, being one of the best players in college ball doesn’t always translate to the NFL pro-style of play. Today, let’s have a look at a few of the worst player investments NFL franchises have made over the years. I should put a…
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The Trial of the Chicago Seven – A Few Good Men
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Read more: The Trial of the Chicago Seven – A Few Good MenAs I write this, it is January 2021. A few days ago, rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, attempting a violent insurrection of the U.S government, fueled at its core by anger, hatred, and lies. That event is still very raw for us, and in some ways, it made watching this movie very uncomfortable. It sparked…
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The Legacy Of Silent Film
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Read more: The Legacy Of Silent FilmWhen Louis and Auguste Lumiere first showed their short film The Arrival of a Train in 1895, they certainly had no inkling that, almost a hundred years later, it would be the film-within-a-film in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Nor could Carl Theodor Dreyer have suspected that his 1928 feature The…
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Why and how is Donald Trump so popular with half the United States?
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Read more: Why and how is Donald Trump so popular with half the United States?The relationship between Donald Trump and his ardent supporters reminds me of that great classic TV show, Amos & Andy. Kingfish is Trump and he is always very convincing and compelling to Andy. Andy represents all of Trump’s die-hard sycophant and supporters, loyal to the end. No matter how outrageous the scheme is, or how…