All articles from: January, 2010

Feed (2005)

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This film is weak.  So weak.  The plot is outrageously unbelievable.  Since when do Australian cops patrol the internet looking for what may or may not be illegal activity in Toledo, Ohio?  The whole thing was absolutely retarded.  After the man fed the other man his own penis in the opening 5 minutes, I really [...]

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The Alamo (1960)

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The Alamo was one of two films directed by John Wayne the other was “The Green Berets (1968) “.  “In the Alamo, Wayne really goes all out to portray all-American heroes, fighting for freedom. While the Alamo seems like a historical film about the famous battle, it has nothing to do with history.  The historians [...]

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The Glory Guys (1965)

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The Glory Guys (1965)  screenplay was written by Sam Peckinpah and directed by Arnold Laven.  Laven spent more than 30 years as a director of episodic television, the main stay of his career.  He got his start during World War II in the U.S. Army’s First Motion Picture Unit. The movie is fictionalized Western based [...]

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The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)

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The Black Shield of Falworth was directed by Rudolph Maté.  Mate was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for five consecutive years —Foreign Correspondent (1940), That Hamilton Woman (1941), To Be or Not to Be (1942), Sahara (1943), Cover Girl (1944), and Gilda (1946). Myles (Tony Curtis) and his sister Meg (Barbara Rush) [...]

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