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The title of Jeff, Who Lives at Home
tells you a lot about what sort of movie this might be: downtrodden,
acerbic, commuting between office parks and Mom’s basement. And for the
first 45 minut
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“If you want the ultimate, you have to
pay the ultimate price.” It’s one of the many pearls of wisdom Patrick
Swayze’s Zen-surfing/bankrobbing/skydiving/beach-footballing villain
Bodhi s
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Willem Dafoe hunts a rare tiger in the jungles of Tasmania? Sign me the fuck up! Like The Grey,
whose trailer insinuated Liam Neeson would spend the movie killing
wolves with his bare hands, a one
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The best joke of Casa de Mi Padre is that it
exists at all. Nearly entirely in Spanish, with Will Ferrell playing a
Mexican ranching heir alongside Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, the
film is
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Let’s all take a moment to thank George Raft for The Maltese Falcon.
Sure, he’s not actually in it—that’s why we’re grateful. The blank
chorus boy with the tough-guy mug made a second ca
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Earlier this year, the George Lucas-produced Red Tails
tried (and failed) to tell the inspiring story of the Tuskegee Airmen
by resurrecting the corny, flag-waving 1940s war picture—the exact ki
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Essentially the Ramones’ A Hard Day’s Night, 1979’s Rock ’n’ Roll High School
takes place in a parallel dimension to our own, a Bizarro World where
preppy pretty boys pine after weirdo p
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As if still fueled by all that nose candy at the end of GoodFellas, Scorsese’s desert follow-up Casino
is the highest-grade Marty party, with all the tricks of his middle
period deployed as ofte
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Acolytes in the Church of Eastwood will tell you that Sudden Impact
is not just the Dirty Harry movie that coined “Go ahead, make my day”
for Reagan: No, it’s also the one Clint directed, an
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Rod Serling was all about the heavy-handed allocation of ironic fate, so maybe it was inevitable that the Spielbergian bloat of Twilight Zone: The Movie
would be punished by being remembered only fo
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