My patron-funded exploration of the films of disgraced Noxzema girl Rebecca Gayheart continues with a maudlin 2005 Christmas tear-jerker that’s a sequel to a TV movie based on the famously treacly Christmas song “The Christmas Shoes.”
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Danny Glover is MAX POWERS (seriously), a hotshot filmmaker who plays matchmaker to some corny-ass white writers in this shamelessly entertaining and just plain shameless Hallmark Hall of Fame Christmas movie.
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Kevin Spacey’s real-life fall from grace only makes Clint Eastwood’s cartoonishly Southern 1997 literary adaptation Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil even more of a fascinating, problematic mess.
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You know what show was great True Detective? Why didn’t anyone talk about how great it is?
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Zombies run amok in the clever cult show business comedy One Cut of the Dead.
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In the second and final ambulance-themed movie in Ambulance Week here at the Happy Place I take a fond look back at Larry Cohen’s 1990 adventure, which casts as a mulleted Eric Roberts as a Marvel employee who gets caught up in a mystery. This also features Stan Lee’s VERY FIRST CAMEO IN A MOVIE! #Historic
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Virginia Madsen, Michael Madsen, James Belushi, the late Burt Young and a fuck ton of other famous people are in the excruciatingly dull 1999 working class drama The Florentine. For the love of God, why?
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It doesn’t get much darker than Stuart Gordon and David Mamet’s evisceratingly bleak 2005 drama Edmond.
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I am please to report that 1985’s Lifeforce, the flop movie about the sexy naked vampire lady from space is not just good: it’s GREAT! You can trust my taste and judgment. After all, I am a Juggalo.
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In its fourth episode True Detective gets more conventional but remains riveting and intense.
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