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Happy Gilmore

Happy Gilmore A good number of movie comedy stars, despite the fact that their movies make money at the box office, nonetheless have an absolutely abysmal track record when it comes to the actual QUALITY of their movies, starring in one unfunny yuckfest after another where the comedy actor’s allegedly endearing and goofy personality are […]

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Hard Candy

Hard Candy Vigilante dramas have long been a staple of the cinema experience, with the underlying factor to all of them being that you sided with the protagonist as they carried out their acts of vengeance. This film, however, is the exception to that rule: Our “heroine” is a 14-year old girl named Hayley who […]

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Hard Times

Hard Times There may be no more enigmatic figure in the history of cinema than that of Charles Bronson. A guy who (even moreso than John Wayne) played all of his roles with a personality that matched his own real life one and was likewise known as being a straight shooting, no bullshit type that […]

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Hard To Kill

Hard To Kill The Legend Of Steven Seagal is one that bears reminding even after his endless slew of recent direct to video action movies. Raised in the Far East and trained from childhood in the martial arts, he came to Hollywood with a shadowy past and a specialized mastery of both the Aikido and […]

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Hard Way

Hard Way It’s easy to forget that before Michael J. Fox went down with the Parkinson’s, he actually starred in quite a lot of good movies besides just the Back To The Future Trilogy, and this is certainly one of them, an action comedy from 1991, that sees him cast as Nick Lang, a spoiled, […]

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Hardcore

Hardcore If anyone thinks that the world of hardcore pornography is bad in this day and age as it proudly records billions of dollars worth of profit on an annual basis, then they should see what the “adult industry” was like in the 1970s, a decadent wasteland where everyone involved were sketchy types at best […]

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Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man

Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man It’s amazing how something can come out in a certain era that not only is way ahead of its own time, but for what has been billed as a “cheesy” b grade action movie, actually has a statement to make not only about our changing times but also that […]

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Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone

Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone In many ways, it’s hard not to appreciate the many production aspects of what went into a film like this (the first in the series from 2001): The special effects, costume design, cinematography, art direction, editing, and most anything else you can name are all top-notch, right down to […]

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Hart’s War

Hart’s War It’s probably never a good idea when you cast Colin Farrell, that most non-masculine of actors whose apparent “stardom” continues to cause this viewer a great deal of bewilderment, in what’s supposed to be a tough, gritty war film about the lives of American soldiers in a WWII POW camp. That, plus a […]

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Heat

Heat In the history of Oscar Screwjobs, obviously that while it is well known that such things happen every year, it’s maybe once a decade that one occurs of such monumental proportions, that it casts shame and doubt upon the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences that can never, ever be erased. Such was […]