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Alice In Wonderland 1933

Alice In Wonderland 1933 Lewis Carroll (the pen name of the Rev. Charles Dodgson) was a known pedophile whom even as a member of the clergy, was said to have spent an inordinate amount of time around young children and even went so far as to have taken nude photographs of them even as no […]

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Alien

Alien: Director’s Cut Without a doubt the last word when it comes to science fiction / horror movies, Ridley Scott’s influential masterpiece does nonetheless still suffer from some pacing and writing issues in the first half. It would seem that screenwriter Dan O’Bannon wants to establish the mundane quality of space travel (which he also […]

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Alien 3

Alien 3: Director’s Cut The first major work of the now legendary David Fincher is a relentlessly depressing exercise in a bleak and nilhilistic journey. Many fans (including myself) were pissed at the casual way the awesome characters of Hicks and Newt were killed off here, and Bishop basically reduced to the scrap heap, but […]

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Alien 4: Resurrection

Alien: Resurrection: Director’s Cut If there’s one thing I find kinda annoying, it’s when fanboys of a certain movie franchise go up in arms about sequels taking things in a different direction and trying something new: Thus the case here with the most underrated film of the Alien series. Director Jeunet decided to infuse his […]

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Aliens

Aliens: Director’s Cut Basically the film that rewrote the rules of sci-fi action and established a bar in pacing and violence that has rarely been topped, James Cameron’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s seminal classic is the rare example of the follow-up that actually manages to top the original all the way around. Sigourney Weaver returns […]

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Alone In The Dark

Alone In The Dark Way too often it is all too easy for a horror / slasher movie to only view its psychopathic villains from the outside looking in, using a superficial style of writing and wild eyed, cliché acting from the actor who happens to be playing this particular type of character. What’s even […]

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Along Came Polly

Along Came Polly The only real thing that any romantic comedy needs really, despite mundane writing and jokes that don’t quite work, is CHEMISTRY between the two leads, and fortunately this 2004 effort provides that with Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston (the main indisputable reason in this world that Brad Pitt is a fucking idiot).  […]

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Altered States

Altered States A recurring theme of certain horror movies (and possibly in real life) is that in the isolated environments of college campuses all across the country, the strangest, most mindblowing experiments imaginable are being conducted in order to find the next breakthrough in medical or metaphysical science with the horror element coming from something […]

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Amadeus

Amadeus There are certainly those who might contend that one of the most risky ventures in cinematic history was to go ahead in 1984 (at arguably the height of the MTV rock music video era) and produce a lavish 3 hour biopic about the life of one of the greatest CLASSICAL composers to ever live […]

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Amazon Women On The Moon

Amazon Women On The Moon Sketch comedy films are something that is not only extremely rare, but also many times the exclusive domain of the low budget realm of filmmaking, a realm where such a scattershot style is pretty hit or miss (usually miss) which proves that sketch comedy in and of itself (defined as […]