Category: Movies
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Great Expectations (1946)
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Read more: Great Expectations (1946)Directed by David Lean. Screenplay by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan &Ronald Neame Based on the 1861 novel by Charles Dickens. With: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles (who we’ll see ten years later as a kidnapper in The Man Who Knew Too Much). Here, he is kindly blacksmith, Joe), Francis L. Sullivan as Mr. Jaggers…
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Zardoz (1974): A Love Letter from Holland
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Read more: Zardoz (1974): A Love Letter from HollandDon’t you just hate it when movies are all logical and comprehensible? That you’re watching something, and you go like: ‘yeah, that person just did or said something, and now, that other person did or said something, and it all makes perfect sense!’ Ugh. Boring! Well, if you happen to be one of those rather…
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Fucked-Up Films #12: Fingers (1978)
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Read more: Fucked-Up Films #12: Fingers (1978)Synopsis: Keitel puts the bark in Bach Director: James Toback Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Michael V. Gazzo, Jim Brown, Tanya Roberts, Tony Sirico Do you ever watch a movie and end up unsure whether it’s a gem or a pile of bollocks? Perhaps you then start skimming the reviews, an exercise that results in…
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Dune: Part 2
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Read more: Dune: Part 2“Dune: Part Two” – Sand-witches. It dawned on me that Dune: Part 2 is the first of two movies this year that will feature sandworms. I’m certain that Dune: Part 2 will be the better one, though that isn’t much to say considering the second one is Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. No, that isn’t a typo, that’s…
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Lost In Translation
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Read more: Lost In TranslationTokyo has lots of bright, crazy lights and fucked up super-robot billboards!
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Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: The Top 10 Problems with this movie
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Read more: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: The Top 10 Problems with this movieWhatever my review might be, it just pales in comparison…
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The Phantom of the Opera: (2011) Royal Albert Hall
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Read more: The Phantom of the Opera: (2011) Royal Albert HallThere have been scores of Broadway Musicals, but there are just two of them that I cannot imagine a world without. One, of course, is Les Misérables, and the other is The Phantom of the Opera. The latter is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on a 1910 French novel written by Gaston LeRoux.…
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Quigley Down Under: Classic Western
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Read more: Quigley Down Under: Classic WesternA real American hero with an Old West version of a sniper rifle takes on the great grandfather of Hans Gruber and becomes the white savior of the Australian aboriginal, all while…
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High Plains Drifter
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Read more: High Plains DrifterYou want a woman, you rape her, and she likes it, only becoming angry when you “don’t go back for more.”
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20th Century Duvall: Part 7 -Other Stuff
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Read more: 20th Century Duvall: Part 7 -Other StuffOther stuff: The Greatest (1977), Phenomenon (1995) & The Apostle (1997) Given the arse-licking title and its gag-inducing theme song, you’d expect The Greatest to be nothing more than ninety-minutes of Muhammad Ali cuddling himself. And for the most part (especially during his anti-Vietnam stance) it does its best to depict him as The Most…