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Don’t Trust Anybody, a Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier
A good comic book is one that balances its pay-offs with enticements. It has to be satisfying on its own, but keep you salivating for more. However, the balance of most Marvel films up to this point...
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Romancing the Stone
There was one movie that I had seen in various Target and Wal-Mart $5 bins for the last twenty years, but I never picked it up, despite its fantastic cover. Last night, thanks to Netflix, I finally sat...
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The Folly of Man – The Ghost and the Darkness
Since humans emerged from east Africa, they have been in constant combat with their environment. The earth, sea, heavens, and beasts have seemed to conspire against us, as if to say “none shall pass”....
View ArticleThe Amazing Spider-man 2 SUCKED
Title says it all. Me and Tom saw this a few days ago…we were almost in physical pain. Somehow WORSE than previous entry. So much HORRIBLE writing/acting. At one point Jamie Foxx became pure energy and...
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The Folly of Man – On The Edge of Yawning
This is the second of the “Folly of Man” series. See the first review here. He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the...
View ArticleSailing ‘Round the World With Noah
“Noah” was like a blade forged by Tubal-Cain, the movie’s chief villain: tempered and balanced and promising massive casualties. The basic premise of “Noah” is that of the famous biblical story. God,...
View ArticleDra-KEWL-a
“Oh, man: if a Dracula is chasing you…just turn around and trip the bitch! Slappy Pappy, weh wehhh!” Drakewla Untold (starring Luke Evans) looked pretty promising in the trailers…unfortunately it...
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The Gambler is Indebted to Me
I was hustled this Christmas. “The Gambler”, the alleged thriller starring Mark Wahlberg as a literature professor with a gambling addiction, delivered almost nothing of value to an eager audience. It...
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Days of Thunder
Cruise about to gnaw on some Duvall. The farmer mechanic is your enemy. Now he’s your friend. Your racetrack opponent is your enemy. Now he’s your friend. You almost died in a crash. Now you’re fine....
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A Mnotable Mnineties Gem
Um, ok, HOW had I not seen JOHNNY MNEMONIC until recently?! (My sole interaction with it was its pinball machine.) The AESTHETIC of that film is RIGHT up my alley…cyberpunk mayhem, a pop-philosophy...
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Léon: The Professional and the Art of Visual Restraint
I finally sat down to watch the acclaimed action thriller “Léon: The Professional” recently for the first time in my life and within minutes regretted that it took me so long to fix this blind spot in...
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A Very xXx Christmas
Before every Christmas, a friend raids the $5 bin at Wal-Mart and distributes the discovered dollar movies on Christmas Eve. This year I received “xXx”, the 2002 xXxtreme sports Vin Diesel vehicle....
View ArticleBeautiful Loser
As we look back at the films of 2015, let’s not forget, let’s not forget, Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser. Dollar Theater die-hards may have missed this one since it was released directly to Crackle in...
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Ghostbusters
We know the backdrop to the recent release of “Ghostbusters”: ridiculous internet-fueled fear of *gasp* women being cast in the remake of a beloved film. The only sin here is the existence of a remake,...
View ArticleSwiss Army Man
Swiss Army Man begins with Hank (Paul Dano), seemingly stranded on a desert island and about to kill himself. He changes his mind when Manny (Daniel Radcliffe), a special corpse with a spastic colon,...
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Star Trek Beyond: it’s the villain, stupid
Wut. Confusion and adrenaline reigned during a recent screening of “Star Trek Beyond”, the latest installment of the iconic franchise. And after two earlier films in this new cast, the Enterprise has...
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Quick Holiday Movie Musings
Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day is a wonderful time for movies, both because so many big-budget and prestige films arrive in theaters, but also because there’s a helluvalotta time spent sitting...
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Dr. Strange Let Me Down
(The following is a drunken email sent by Tony to Dan–edited for clarity–after Tony saw Dr. Strange) the movie SHOULD have been as crazy as THIS I mean, magic (particularly the crazy, drugged-out shit...
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Dollar Rewind: The Sons of Katie Elder
Dollar cinema wasn’t born with the hyper-masculine Schwarzenegger and Stallone flicks of the 1980s, even if that’s where many of us cut our teeth on the genre. Dollar movies have existed since pictures...
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The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
We’re dialing it wayyyy back for a special pre-Code film* adaptation of the 1924 short story “The Most Dangerous Game”. Time for Halloween film #25…. The Most Dangerous Game. A luxury liner wrecks off...
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