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X-Men: First Class

X-Men: First Class It’s almost ironic that the best film in the X-Men Franchise would also be the fifth in the series, moreso because it serves as a prequel that would have been most appropriate as the first entry instead, if not for the producers deciding to go for a modern day story and bringing […]

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X Ray

X Ray For all of the slick, well done, technical prowess shown in horror movies from recent years, one thing that they seem to have lost is the ability to be CREEPY, the tendency to make the viewer uncomfortable just by what they’re watching even as it still delivers the horror movie goods, replaced instead […]

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Yellowbeard

Yellowbeard Sometimes an attempt is made with a comedy to just go all out and do the majority of the hard work in the casting office, using any and all resources to acquire as many big names as possible into one movie and then just let the chips fall where they may as far as […]

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You Only Live Twice

You Only Live Twice For the fifth outing for Sean Connery as James Bond 007, the producers decided to stop dicking the fans around with pseudo-villains and bring out the big gun: Ernst Stavro Blofeld finally takes center stage as the primary bad guy, and with the legendary Donald Pleasence in the role, it’s not […]

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Young Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein A film that pays as much tribute as it does spoofs the genre it is taking on, Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy classic is certainly faithful to the Universal horror classics of the 1930s and in particular, James Whale’s Frankenstein films that starred Boris Karloff. Brooks even goes so far as to utilize the […]

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Young Guns

Young Guns Historians have long debated the true nature of the legendary Western figure that was Billy The Kid, about whether he was a Robin Hood-type outlaw that fought for what he thought was right, or whether he was a psychotic killer that used the injustices of his time to satisfy and fulfill his own […]

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Zapped!

Zapped! With this film having been given a special place among film buffs as being perhaps the dumbest comedy of the 80s, one must look closer to see if it has those qualities that make it a given for the Turkey Hall Of Fame. First, there is the story: A teenage science nerd who has […]

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Zoolander

Zoolander If there is such a thing as an island of tranquility in the ocean of diarrhea that passes for Hollywood comedy these days, it may very well be Ben Stiller, whom as a writer, director, and actor consistently comes up with funny, engaging material that many of his peers can only hope to aspire […]