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Quick And The Dead

Quick And The Dead Shortly after completing his fabled Evil Dead Trilogy, Sam Raimi decided to follow that up with a Western in 1995 and coming from a demented cinematic genius like Raimi, what a Western it was! It turned out to not only be the most self aware and self referencial Western perhaps ever […]

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Raging Bull

Raging Bull Before the ignoble advancement of corrupt promoters and the lack of having any more big star names (can anyone even name the HEAVYWEIGHT Champion Of The World right now? Anyone?), the sport of boxing was truly the sport of kings, the original one on one combat sport going back over 100 years in […]

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Raiders Of The Lost Ark

Raiders Of The Lost Ark In the early days of cinema, the adventure serial was just one part of what added up to a full afternoon at the movies for most families, with the full program that they were treated to including the main feature, newsreels, various cartoons and short subjects along with the serial […]

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Raising Arizona

Raising Arizona The frenetic genius of The Coen Brothers’ style of filmmaking has been well documented in many places, whether the film be good or bad, with only one time (Big Lebowski) did they achieve a true work of transcendent, timeless brilliance, but this 1987 release during their so called “formative” years is probably the […]

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Raising Cain

Raising Cain Brian De Palma has spent his entire career making classic movies from the realms of horror, action and of course, suspense filled homages to Alfred Hitchcock, a trait of his that grew so strong many compared him favorably as being the heir apparent of Hitchcock’s style of filmmaking. Several other great (non Hitchcock […]

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Rambo

Rambo Seeing Stallone return to playing one of his most iconic characters ever certainly arouses the old curiosity, and the first issue off the bat is his age, which has been much talked about: Thankfully, the older, craggier Rambo suits the character fine, since Rambo was always meant to be somewhat of a grotesque figure. […]

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Rambo 3

Rambo 3 You know, it almost makes me weep that this film set the record in 1988 for having the largest ever production budget at the time ($60 million), and yet the film that was actually produced turned out to be such an amateurish b-movie type piece of shit. A lot of this can probably […]

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Rambo: First Blood Part 2

Rambo: First Blood Part 2 A film so expressly in touch with 80s conservatism that seemingly Ronald Reagan himself could have written the screenplay, this second entry in the Rambo saga, while not quite as fun to watch as the superior Rocky 4 (which came out around the same time), is still a good hearty […]

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Ransom

Ransom It’s always interesting to take note of in this world those who are the type to always want to have full CONTROL of everything and of every situation in their lives, even if it means bending and / or breaking the rules once in a while. It’s even more interesting when you witness a […]

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Ray

Ray In the rash of recent biopics of well known and beloved pop culture celebrities over the past twenty years, this certainly has to be considered one of the best, a celebration of the life and times of one Ray Charles and his influence on music while still not being afraid at various times of […]