Category: Features
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NFL Week 14: It’s Only a Game Edition
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Read more: NFL Week 14: It’s Only a Game EditionAnd back down to Earth we crash. Some days you’re the stick, some days the drum. As per the rules I won’t apologize for anything but I will admit that I sort of stopped caring about the outcome of the Monday night game when the Ryan Shazier hit took place. It seems trite to say…
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The Post
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Read more: The PostDeja vu. I’ve tried to keep politics out of my reviews, with the exception of an occasional swipe or two. I have very strong opinions, especially in our current situation, but I know that’s not why you come here. You just want to know how a movie was and, hopefully, laugh at my jokes and…
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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Read more: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. 2017 has been a year for movies that keeps on giving, but one of the biggest presents of all came near the end of the year. Martin McDonagh is a Director that gave us one of the best movies I’ve ever seen, In Bruges, but he has outdone himself with…
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Good Time
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Read more: Good TimeNot so much. (It’s award consideration season and I’m playing catch-up. As I tear through them, I thought I’d try mini-reviews. Enjoy!) I have hang-ups with titles that don’t make sense and Good Time is a textbook example. Good Time is about two brothers, one of whom is mentally disabled – Nick (Ben Safdie), who…
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Battle of the Sexes
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Read more: Battle of the SexesDouble fault. (It’s award consideration season and I’m playing catch-up. As I tear through them, I thought I’d try mini-reviews. Enjoy!) Don’t you hate it when a movie starts out strong, then withers and dies by the end? Battle of the Sexes advertised its main plot as the storied tennis match between Billie Jean King…
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A Meowy Christmas (2017)
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Read more: A Meowy Christmas (2017)I think I’ve finally reached the bottom of the pile, the very worst Christmas Movie imaginable. I present, A Meowy Christmas (2017). This movie is about two animals, Ms. Whiskers and Chuckie, and their owner, an incompetent Detective Wally Griswold. These animals are a cat and a mouse whose mouths do not move and there…
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NFL Week 13: Dow Jones 24,000 Edition
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Read more: NFL Week 13: Dow Jones 24,000 EditionNFL Week 13: Dow Jones 24,000 Edition BREAKING: ENTIRE NFL IN HUGE GIGANTIC MEGASCANDAL, LIKE REAL REAL BAD; PAID PROTESTS, CAUSING HURRICANES, PUPPY MURDER, SLIDING INTO DMS, MORE. NEW YORK (RR) Based upon information gathered from highly credible and in no way biased informant, Ruthless Reviews has learned that all of the NFL protests were…
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Lady Bird
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Read more: Lady BirdThe movie Lady Bird was not really on my radar screen as I have been impatiently waiting for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri to make its appearance in Northern Colorado. Maybe people are still watching Will Ferrell’s latest stinker and the Bad Mom’s Christmas debacle and there is no room for a quality film. I…
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Escape From Tomorrow (2013)
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Read more: Escape From Tomorrow (2013)Escape From Tomorrow (2013) You hear someone has somehow filmed an entire movie at Walt Disney World without Disney’s knowledge. You can imagine it will look like found footage garbage with key scenes shot on sets indoors. This movie was shot in shimmering black and white by a real cinematographer, and 99% of the movie…
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Office Christmas Party
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Read more: Office Christmas PartyJingle our bells. The best scene in a movie about an office Christmas party doesn’t actually occur at the party. It happens in an airport lounge and is further evidence that Jennifer Aniston was horribly miscast for most of her career. I’m not talking about starring in comedies, I’m talking about being cast as the…