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The Salton Sea (2002)

The Salton Sea is a thriller type drug movie starring Val Kilmer.  It follows a meth junkie snitch that tries to set up a huge drug deal. I stumbled onto this movie late one night on HBO.  It left me feeling liked I had watched a pretty solid movie, but it was so late that [...]

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Blood Simple (1984)

Blood Simple is the first released film of the Coen brothers.  It is a bout a Texas murder that becomes anything but simple. Interesting sort of plot, but I didn’t think this was anything special.  The opening remarks caught me as intriguing, but the rest of the movie was pretty flat.  The soundtrack is awesomely [...]

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36 Hours (1965)

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36 Hours (1965) was directed by George Seaton.  Seaton wrote and directed the classic Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Major Jefferson Pike (James Garner)knows the plans for D-Day, he  is sent to Lisbon to check with a German double agent he has recruited. In Lisbon Pike is drugged and captured by the Germans.  They fly [...]

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11:14 (2003)

Greg Marcks movie about simultaneous events shown from different perspectives. This was a silly movie and all it had going for it was its gimmick.  And that is the ability to follow a schedule of events, so it isn’t very cool anyway.  I have to admit to my dumbness by not seeing the end coming.  [...]

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