Category: Reviews
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Monster From Green Hell (1957)
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Read more: Monster From Green Hell (1957)As a right thinking American, you know the greatest threats to our way of life in the 1950s was the godless commies, and I state this with all the fear and loathing it engenders, Radiation.
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The Unsung: Joyce Lakeland, The Killer Inside Me (1976)
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Read more: The Unsung: Joyce Lakeland, The Killer Inside Me (1976)I’ve only seen her twice, but I’ve never been more in love. I fell hard after seeing her in 1972’s Fat City, a film so unrelentingly perfect, I wanted to bottle the emotion and save it for an inevitable downturn in mood.
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Under the Burning Sun (2025)
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Read more: Under the Burning Sun (2025)Under the Burning Sun is George Miller’s Furiosa meets Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge, with echoes of I Spit On Your Grave and Boys Don’t Cry, the (literal) water carried by a lead performance reminiscent of Jodie Foster’s Nell.
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Ezra’s Ruthless Oscar Predictions for 2025
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Read more: Ezra’s Ruthless Oscar Predictions for 2025Time once again for my extremely reliable, one hundred percent accurate Oscar predictions! If you want the short version, scroll right down to the end, where I recap all my predictions in a tidy column
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Gene Hackman: Legend
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Read more: Gene Hackman: LegendMean as a snake, even when he’s winking in your general direction. Pissed and getting pissier, with so much to prove, he’d just as soon knock out your teeth as be figured out.
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Midnight Cowboy
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Read more: Midnight CowboyMovies have been often characterized as innovative, ground-breaking, trend-setting or wildly original, and these terms can be overused, but I cannot emphasize enough what a bold and courageous experiment in cinema was Midnight Cowboy
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Sudden Impact (1983)
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Read more: Sudden Impact (1983)Revenge is best served with a comically farting dog.
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The Unsung: Reuben, Reuben, Reuben (1983)
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Read more: The Unsung: Reuben, Reuben, Reuben (1983)There are dogs and there are dogs, but there’s only one Reuben. An Old English Sheepdog of the most supreme vintage, Reuben (of 1983’s Reuben, Reuben.
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Assholes of the Cinema: Laurence Fishburne, Boyz N the Hood (1991)
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Read more: Assholes of the Cinema: Laurence Fishburne, Boyz N the Hood (1991)Furious T. Stiles. Okay, so maybe I made up the “T.” part, but when you’re that achingly close to Groucho’s Rufus T. Firefly in the Ridiculous Moniker Hall of Fame sweepstakes, you have to ad lib a little
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Ferris Bueller’s Almost Forty (1986)
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Read more: Ferris Bueller’s Almost Forty (1986)What I’ll be describing is a fresh impression of the film, from a viewing I attended last night with my mom. Cinemas here in California do a thing on Tuesday evenings, where films deemed “classic” by some combination of awards tally, cult fandom, and re-watchability are presented in high-res digital projections, either restored, upscaled, or…