Category: Features
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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.
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In The Company of Men
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Read more: In The Company of MenTo be blunt, everything men do is a distraction from the unshakable truth that they would rather be fucking each other.
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Barton Fink (1991)
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Read more: Barton Fink (1991)Barton Fink is one of my favorite Coen Brothers films. This assessment is not shared by many, Coen fans or not.
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Surprise Dinosaurs Can Make Any Movie Better
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Read more: Surprise Dinosaurs Can Make Any Movie BetterOne of the earliest, and still one of the absolute best, instances of the surprise dinosaur phenomenon has to be the original 1933 classic King Kong. This was basically the greatest special-effects spectacle of its time.
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The Top 10 Most Outrageous YouTube Eating Channels
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Read more: The Top 10 Most Outrageous YouTube Eating ChannelsOutrageous YouTube eating channels. Some are still here, some are gone. Check them out.
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The Lost Weekend (1945)
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Read more: The Lost Weekend (1945)The Wet House provides a judgment-free atmosphere for drunks, but there was no such thing in the world of this ground-breaking movie that was made in 1945.
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The ABC’s of Drunkenness
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Read more: The ABC’s of DrunkennessA relationship counselor once hinted that drinking eight beers during Sunday football could be a problem, that’s less than a beer per hour, plus it was a lie; it was more like 18.
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The ABC’s Of Gun Culture
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Read more: The ABC’s Of Gun CultureAmerica may not care about science, education, or the public good, but we lead the world where it counts: depression, impotence, unhappiness, and interpersonal violence.
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Doctor on Faith Healing Hoax and Religiously Impaired Parents
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Read more: Doctor on Faith Healing Hoax and Religiously Impaired ParentsMineral water, green veg, and prayer. Over 500 years since the printing press was invented, and we still do this shit?
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Starring debuts: Richard E. Grant in Withnail & I (1987)
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Read more: Starring debuts: Richard E. Grant in Withnail & I (1987)If you get the characterization and dialogue right, you don’t need any explosions or mayhem to make a great movie.