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Time After Time

Time After Time The key central core to any quality science fiction movie or TV show is that of having a good, strong basic story, not a far out psychedelic collection of ā€œwildly original ideasā€ that only appeal to the hardcore, sci fi loving, saliva covered adult male virgin for whom a relationship with an […]

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Time Bandits

Time Bandits A quality childrenā€™s film is not always exactly quality family entertainment, such as the ones where the kids drag the parents to see the latest G rated sensation so that the little tykes can bob up and down happily while the poor parents are bobbing their heads up and down because the film […]

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Timecop

Timecop Of all the major action stars that graced the screen during the golden age of the genre in the 1980s and 1990s, Jean-Claude Van Damme remains almost indisputably the worst actor out of all of them. He certainly had the look and the requisite fighting ability. However, unlike Arnold he was never able to […]

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To Live And Die In LA

To Live And Die In LA After more or less inventing the action movie with 1971ā€™s French Connection (and winning an Oscar for it), director William Friedkin literally reinvents the genre in 1985 with this powerful, entertaining, spectacularly original entry about a secret service agent (CSIā€™s William Petersen) obsessed with bringing down the counterfeiter (Willem […]

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Tombstone

Tombstone If thereā€™s any such thing as a film that can be considered a ā€œrite of passageā€ for boys to watch in the process of helping them to become men, it may very well be this 1993 Western Classic by director George Pan Cosmatos (with reportedly a LOT of assistance from star Kurt Russell) detailing […]

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Tommy

Tommy With this spellbinding Grand Masterpiece that sees the Undisputed Greatest Rock Opera Of All Time adapted into arguably the greatest Rock Musical Ever Made, Ken Russell virtually invented the concept of the music video as we know it today. Combining a bright multi-color palatte with kitschy but cool production design and some truly eyepopping […]

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Tomorrow Never Dies

Tomorrow Never Dies For the second outing of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond 007, the producers decided to take a storyline ripped right from the headlines: Having Bond take on a insane, super-rich media mogul who seems to be a combination of Ted Turner, George Soros, and Bill Gates, and certainly the action and pacing […]

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Tootsie

Tootsie Transvestism, or the act of a man dressing up as a woman, being used for the purposes of comedy has almost never worked in a mainstream form, mainly because we are being told that merely the act in and of itself and who is engaging in it is supposed to be the sole thing […]

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Total Recall

Total Recall (Original) Released in 1990 and unfairly saddled with a shitty remake less than 25 years later, Paul Verhoevenā€™s high octane classic manages to be the best of both particular worlds: a bloody, carnage strewn, action masterpiece, and a twisty, mind bending, innovative sci-fi classic, adapted from Philip K. Dickā€™s short story, We Can […]

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Touch Of Evil

Touch Of Evil Orson Welles was truly one of the pioneer geniuses of cinema history, and while heā€™ll always be known for Citizen Kane (hailed by many as the Greatest Movie Ever), many also have a fondness for this later work from 1958, thought by many at the time as a b-movie but really a […]