Category: Movies
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The Gene Hackman Chronicles, Volume III: Another Woman (1988)
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Read more: The Gene Hackman Chronicles, Volume III: Another Woman (1988)It stands to reason that if Gene Hackman were to appear in a Woody Allen movie, it would be as “the one who got away.” A man of deep feeling and intensity; neither shy nor reserved, standing as a masculine alternative to cold intellectualism and academic piety
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Looking Back at Mel Brooks’ 60-Year Film Legacy With Stream TV
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Read more: Looking Back at Mel Brooks’ 60-Year Film Legacy With Stream TVMel Brooks has long been known as one of America’s most popular exports when it comes to comedy, with his movies reaching a wide audience all over the world. And there’s a good reason for that
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Nomadland (2020)
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Read more: Nomadland (2020)What is it about the open road that speaks so deeply to so many of us? Is it loneliness? The longing to leave that shitty life you have right now behind you — just pack it all up and go? To be truly free?
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80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Small Business Owner, Death Wish 3
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Read more: 80’s Action Hall of Fame: The Small Business Owner, Death Wish 3The United States, if you believe the myth, was built by grit, tenacity, long hours, and great determination. Heedless of risk, these men and women of yesteryear passed along to their progeny the unquenchable desire to gamble it all for even the slightest slice of the American pie
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Bob Le Flambeur (1956)
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Read more: Bob Le Flambeur (1956)Bob knows everybody in the slums of Montmartre, and everybody knows Bob (Roger Duchesne). With his five o’clock shadow and his rumpled trenchcoat, Bob Montagne is a gambler and hustler, going from hosting one backroom game of craps to the next blind pig.
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Lilo & Stitch (2025)
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Read more: Lilo & Stitch (2025)I was in college when the original Lilo & Stitch was released (2002), so, no, I didn’t see it back when it came out. I saw parts of it on a cruise once, but that’s as close as I ever got to watching the whole thing.
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Notes On A Scandal (2006)
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Read more: Notes On A Scandal (2006)Few things bore more easily than unjustified earnestness; the sort of film, for example, that pretends its meanderings and foolish plot turns are anything other than tiresome distractions
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Stephen King’s Top 10 Winners
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Read more: Stephen King’s Top 10 WinnersSo, again, how does one add anything to an already very long list of awards and accolades for Stephen King? Well, one thing Mr. King doesn’t have, is a Top Ten-list on Ruthless
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Clifford, the Big Red Dog (2021)
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Read more: Clifford, the Big Red Dog (2021)Isn’t it infinitely sad, dear readers, that out of the infinite possibilities in the multiverse, you and I happen to inhabit the one where one of the greatest comedic talents of all time has stooped to the level of total idiocy?
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The Dark Knight: Devon’s Thoughts
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Read more: The Dark Knight: Devon’s ThoughtsHate it or love it, but this is an essential and definitive film of the superhero genre, and one that speaks more to the zeitgeist of the 00s which have enabled our present dystopia