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Postman

Postman Sometimes a movie can come out where a major, massive misunderstanding will occur when it comes to that movie’s themes and subject matter, regardless of any of the positive qualities that said movie might actually possess. The cause of this misunderstanding can be any number of different factors, but mainly it all comes down […]

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Predator

Predator Remembered today as one of the best pure action movies ever made as well as the most succinct fusion of that genre with sci-fi, this 1987 classic from director John (Die Hard) McTiernan of course brings front and center the undisputed king of 80s action in Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dutch, the leader of a […]

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Predator 2

Predator 2 The original 1987 Predator remains in many ways an untouchable sci fi / action masterpiece, theoretically impossible to top by almost any standards imaginable with one Arnold Schwarzenegger (in his prime) being horrified watching his brothers in arms getting cut down one by one before donning his warpaint and squaring off with the […]

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Prestige

Prestige Christopher Nolan has proven that he is one of the last few Hollywood filmmakers capable of making almost totally original work, or at least original takes on familiar work (Dark Knight), so it’s little surprise when watching this 2006 release just how little it references from the past and comes across as something made […]

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Pretty Woman

Pretty Woman Prostitution in Hollywood cinema has always been portrayed in a problematic way, with beautiful (not usually true), scantily clad young women strutting on camera while being looked after by a zoot suited pimp or Harvey Keitel. When budding screenwriter extraordinaire J.F. Lawton put together his own script on the perils of prostitution, he […]

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Primal Fear

Primal Fear Basically the film that will always be remembered as the one that unleashed the tremendous acting talents of Edward Norton on the world, this also manages to be a solid, if flawed, courtroom drama. As Aaron Stampler, altar boy turned accused murderer, Norton manages to convince the viewer (and the other characters) of […]

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Prime Cut

Prime Cut Organized crime movie villains are generally involved in the usual vices: narcotics, gambling, weapons, bootlegging. But up until the recent release of The Sound Of Freedom, very few if any Hollywood films would feature full on antagonists who would engage in the horrific practice of child sex trafficking, a very real life criminal […]

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Prince Of Darkness

Prince Of Darkness John Carpenter definitely achieved a run that was second to none from the late 70s to the 1980s while directing an unbreakable string of sci fi / horror classics and the most impressive thing about that fact was in how he managed to do it while still keeping his films on a […]

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Princess Bride

Princess Bride Sometimes there are movies that stand the test of time more than any other, whether it be because they connect with the audience stronger than your average churned out piece of cinema or perhaps because the style or the approach if you will was one that was majorly different than anything that had […]

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Private Parts

Private Parts The meteoric rise to fame that Howard Stern went through to become one of THE most popular figures in the history of modern pop culture (or as he calls it, The King Of All Media) was one built on a wave of pure anti establishment, rebellious attitude, challenging the old ways and mores […]