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The 1939 movie year: First in a series.
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Read more: The 1939 movie year: First in a series.A recent question on Jeopardy reminded me 1939 was a banner year for the release of the greatest number of quality films ever in a single year. Most were the product of the studio system. I will briefly discuss some of my favorites, starting with my favorite film genre, the Western. Jesse James ( “He…
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The Gentlemen
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Read more: The GentlemenTravel well indeed. Guy Ritchie needed a win. After the success of his two Sherlock Holmes films in 2009 and 2011, people largely ignored the very good The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) was an unmitigated disaster, and the Aladdin remake (2019) was a pile of shit that was…
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Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
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Read more: Portrait Of A Lady On FirePortrait of a Lady on Fire is a French film written and directed by Celine Scaimma. If ever a movie exhibits the concept of every frame being a painting, this is the one. After seeing Call Me By Your Name, I never thought that I would see a love story as touching and mesmerizing, but…
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Troop Zero
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Read more: Troop ZeroA tale of two movies. Sitting next to each other, in the same theater on the same night, my wife and I saw two entirely different movies. I saw a heartwarming movie with adorable, courageous kids, a solid story, and a tight running time that kept the film from meandering. My wife saw a jumbled,…
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Beginners Guide to Different Types of Online Casino Bonuses
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Read more: Beginners Guide to Different Types of Online Casino BonusesIt is thrilling to see the glamour and glitz online casinos now offer to their players. However, there’s another reason why players keep coming back for more- bonuses. When you register on an online casino website, most of the time, you’ll get some kind of bonus for joining and even more of those will become…
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NFL Conference Championship: Send In The Clowns Edition
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Read more: NFL Conference Championship: Send In The Clowns EditionWell *yawn* another sweep. I haven’t done any year-end totals yet but my unofficial scratchpad math has us somewhere in the neighborhood of 52-26, 4 out of 5 on futures and props, and $347 to Save the Hampton House. We mostly do self-deprecation around here but if another handicapper has a comparable record – free…
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Bad Boys for Life
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Read more: Bad Boys for LifeSo this is what death throes look like. When I was a sophomore in high school, I was a little too talkative one day during math class. My teacher told me stay after the bell rung, and, once everyone else had left the room, told me I could not leave until I acted like a…
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Some Myths About Drugs
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Read more: Some Myths About Drugs[NOTE: Also check out The ABC’s Of The Opioid Crisis] Hey everyone! my name is Devin, and here at Ruthless we have come to love nay-saying the fuck out of everything. So in that spirit, I want to dispel some myths about narcotic abuse. This is my cute way of saying that I used to…
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Dolittle
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Read more: DolittleDo you smell something? It seems almost unfair to write about Dolittle. Why on Earth would a movie with a $175 million budget and starring Robert Downey Jr. be opening in the armpit of the Hollywood calendar known as January? All the kids are back in school, almost everyone blew all of their spending money…
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Dark Waters
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Read more: Dark WatersThe French born Chemist E. I. du Pont arrived in the United States on January 1st 1800, a symbolic date for several reasons. (Aaron Burr came within a hair’s breadth of becoming president in the election of that year). In 1802 he established a factory in Wilmington Delaware to manufacture gun powder, using the improved formula of…