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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 Verhoeven’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. Dick’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 he’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 […]

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The Tourist

Tourist Angelina Jolie continues her nearly unbroken streak as (outside of Madonna) possibly the most repugnant major actress to ever star in major Hollywood movies. Worse, she looks as if both Father Time and Mother Nature have finally caught up to her, as she walks through most of this 2010 release made up to look […]

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Tourist Trap

Tourist Trap Sometimes, when an older actor with a little bit of status through either movies or TV start getting on in years, they decide to set aside some of their prior reservations about certain standards which they had held regarding the types of roles that they would agree to, partially out of a desire […]

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Tower Heist

Tower Heist The trajectory of the career of one Eddie Murphy has been an intriguing yet sad one. Bursting onto the screen in 1982 with 48 Hrs, Murphy quickly and definitively made himself into a cinema comedy legend while only in his early 20s, creating a streak throughout the 1980s that was as indelible as […]

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Toxic Avenger

Toxic Avenger The realm of low budget, exploitation cinema might also be the most hit or miss of its kind in the entire artistic landscape. While some revel in the bad Ed Wood style of filmmaking, amateur hour acting, and sloppy as hell production values, most people have little use for these types of films […]

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The Toy

The Toy You really have to hand it to the 80s, they were always trying out new ideas for comedies, and unlike today’s ultra baby-soft mentality when it come to material, back then if the idea was good, then political correctness be damned, even when it comes to a family movie like this one. Even […]