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Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump It’s amazing how sometimes a movie can mean different things at different times in a person’s life, that from being a cynical representation of success in this world and in this country, to being an uplifting, life affirming paeon of how being true to yourself and what you believe in can change your […]

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The Fortune

Fortune In the mid 1970s, no two actors were more popular or better known than Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty. Nicholson was one of the most entertaining performers to ever step in front of a camera and was prolific on top of that with three Oscar wins and a cornucopia of undisputed classics on his […]

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48 Hrs

48 Hrs The Buddy Movie is one that follows the rules of a certain formula and sticks to it, usually featuring two major stars teamed together to solve the case, get the money, etc, all while exchanging snappy repartee and one liners with each other as any sense of a major female lead is nearly […]

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40 Year Old Virgin

40 Year Old Virgin Sometimes a successful movie can come out that while being good in and of itself, can set off a wave of really bad movies that try to replicate its success (usually with the same actors to varying degrees) only to show that many of those elements that made the initial film […]

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The Fountain

Fountain There are all kinds of movies out there of course, from big mindless popcorn flicks to cheesy little teen horror romps, but perhaps the toughest kind of work to pull off is that of the abstract, esoteric piece from which several different interpretations can be gleaned from different viewers. David Lynch is undoubtedly the […]

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Fracture

Fracture Relish. That’s something that every great actor who’s ever played a great villain has displayed in spades, particularly in those evil roles that have become iconic. Anthony Hopkins had the market cornered on it way back when he played the notorious Hannibal Lecter and picked himself up an Oscar doing so. And now here […]

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Frailty

Frailty Horror movies in the 21st century have become a monstrosity in and of themselves in terms of quality. Found footage atrocities that pathetically ape Blair Witch, CGI shitfests, and moronic remakes, ripoffs, and badly done homages to the horror masterpieces of the past, even as these new age filmmakers readily forget that what made […]

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Frankenhooker

Frankenhooker There is probably no other filmmaking career as strange and weird just as it was brief like Frank Henenlotter’s. Over a career that only lasted a few years and a handful of films (before he dived into making documentaries about exploitation cinema), nobody has ever likely made more of an impression with such a […]

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Freddy vs Jason

Freddy vs Jason And so finally New Line Cinema succeeded in coming out with this historic cinematic showdown in 2003. It was about time, really. New Line had purchased the rights to the Jason character (for the specific purpose of making THIS movie) 10 years earlier before spending all of that time constantly developing a […]

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Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare For nearly seven years, Freddy Krueger had cut a bloody swath across the cinematic landscape as he unleashed unspeakable carnage upon the spoiled American 80s teen archetype, and audiences around the world had wound up loving him for it all the more, made even more ironic by the fact that […]