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Enforcer

Enforcer Whereas 1971’s Dirty Harry raised serious questions about the extent of the lengths that those in law enforcement would have to take in order to protect society from certain select criminals that were highly dangerous and 1973’s sequel (Magnum Force) commendably addressed at least some of those issues head on, when it came time […]

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Enter The Dragon

Enter The Dragon The martial arts movie genre is generally one that is actually NOT misunderstood, as it exists almost solely to showcase various fighting styles and (with the overrated exception of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) suffers from no illusions of grandeur that their films would ever be considered either good nor prestigious enough to […]

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Eragon

Eragon Perhaps the biggest disadvantage that this movie has, is that in an era where we’ve seen definitive cinematic presentations of Lord Of The Rings, The Narnia Chronicles, Harry Potter, and even Star Wars, this fantasy adaptation feels a bit too much like been there, done that. Regardless, taking into account that there is NO […]

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Eraserhead

Eraserhead Sometimes, just sometimes, a cinematic work is just so surreal and abstract that any review and / or analysis of it must be done from the direct interpretation that the reviewer himself has comprehended from it and hence can be fairly judged on those merits. Thus is the case with this legendary 1977 cult […]

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Escape From New York

Escape From New York From the confident, original, opening chords of its legendary theme music, to the nihilistic yet strangely uplifting ending, John Carpenter came up with his Ultimate Grand Masterpiece in 1981 that still stands today as a high water mark in cult / action filmmaking. With the premise straight out of a pulp […]

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Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind In a nutshell, what we have here is a movie that is actually pretty good with its concept in an almost understated way but still overrated none the less when one considers the almost orgasmic reception that it received upon its initial release in 2004, a science fiction type […]

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Eureka

Eureka One of the riskiest propositions for any filmmaker when constructing their story is to literally hand off the baton at either the halfway point or shortly after from one main character to another and in doing so completely removing your original lead actor (usually by killing them off) and thus placing the complete fortunes […]

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Evil Dead

Evil Dead (Original) In 1979, a small group of filmmakers and actors working on a low budget of $350,000 descended into the woods of Morristown, TN, not knowing a thing about how to actually make a movie save for a few practice attempts, and through hard work, determination, and the sheer creative genius of director […]

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Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn

Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn Rarely does a bonafide sequel turn out to be so brilliant in its own right that it surpasses the classic status of the original by extending the realms of the horror genre itself and creating new boundaries, but Sam Raimi managed to do just that with this 1987 followup […]

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Evil Dead 4

Evil Dead 4 The upsurge of bad remakes of once great horror movies (and franchises) in our so called modern era of filmmaking has been as rancid as it is laughable with only the revived Texas Chainsaw series having any real kind of traction in the long run while other efforts like Nightmare On Elm […]