Stuart Gordon’s adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum is very unfaithful and a lot of morbid fun.
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The Croods is boilerplate shiny, slick animated fare with a terrific lead voice performance by Nicolas Cage as the ultimate over-protective dad.
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One of you kind souls paid me to watch and write about the nasty Yuletide nugget Secret Santa, about a Christmas dinner gone dangerously, murderously awry.
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A cast chockablock with great character actors can’t save the dark 1996 crime comedy Just Your Luck.
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Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine only made one movie together, the 1996 Neo-Noir Blood and Wine. Too bad it’s a thorough disappointment with not enough Caine and WAY too much Stephen Dorff.
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One of you beautiful souls paid me to see Stanley Tucci’s 1998 slapstick throwback The Impostors, which is a goddamn delight. I LOVED it!
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All of the action heroes in the world return in a very silly, very entertaining maximalist sequel from Simon West, the director of Con Air and Stolen.
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One of you kind souls paid me to experience the stylish idiocy of the 2006 science fiction thriller Ultraviolet.
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My patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie explores the pop icon’s legendary cameo in Ben Stiller’s controversial, beloved 2001 fashion world satire Zoolander.
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As part of my patron-funded deep dive into the complete discography of Tawny Kitaen I explore Tom Hanks’ enduring gift to sex comedy, 1984’s audaciously entertaining, often just plain wrong Bachelor Party.
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