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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off To some film enthusiasts, there is no activity that they enjoy more than to basically deconstruct a major (fictional) lead character in a popular or revered movie and try to cast other aspirations on exactly who or what that character really is or is meant to represent. In that regard, there […]

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Fever Pitch

Fever Pitch You could probably count on one hand the number of times a movie has actually and unintentionally been filmed against the backdrop of a real life historical event and the filmmakers were basically forced by necessity to rewrite the film in order to incorporate said event into officially being part of the story. […]

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Few Good Men

Few Good Men Many of the earliest Tom Cruise movies seemed to follow a very particular formula, one that was so well defined they practically became their own type of genre: Idealistic young man in a given field faces a grave challenge, but using his own intelligence, determination and grit, rises above that challenge to […]

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Field Of Dreams

Field Of Dreams Before Pete Rose destroyed his standing in the world of baseball for all time with his sports gambling debacle, there was the saga of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the rest of his Chicago Black Sox throwing the 1919 World Series reportedy after a payout from some illegal gambling organizations (with the identities […]

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Fifth Element

Fifth Element You know it can be said that the science fiction movie genre is in a rut when it gets to the point that literally everything looks the same with its dark spaceships, the blackness of space and (more often than not) the dystopian view of the future that is presented which makes looking […]

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Fight Club

Fight Club Not so much a movie that started a literal revolution in its own right but nonetheless successfully pointed out the still to this day widening cracks in the American male psyche, this 1999 release by director David Fincher scores a bullseye in targeting the “softening” of American men, something started no doubt by […]

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Fighter

Fighter Before the sport of boxing self-destructed under the weight of its own corruption and was replaced by the (rapidly dying in its own right) phenomenon of MMA, the fact remains that the sport had a rich history spanning over a century, and this 2010 film relays one of its last great stories, about the […]

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Final Terror

Final Terror Sometimes the real pleasure in watching old school slasher horror flicks is not because they are any good (they’re not) but rather because they feature young up and coming actors in one of their early roles before they became A list stars. A VERY good example of this would be a film such […]

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Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland If there was ever a movie that came out in theatres at the worst possible time, it was this 2004 film, released at the height of the Michael Jackson scandal which in turn compelled audiences to stay away in droves for fear they would witness the sight of Johnny Depp molesting little boys. […]

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The Firm

The Firm It’s easy to look at a given person or a group of people who are the most incredibly successful at their chosen profession and think that there has to be something that’s just not right in what they’re doing that somehow led to their great success. Much of this can be amplified even […]