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Back in the days when I was a true creature of habit, I would regularly rise as late as I possibly could in order to avoid my irrepressibly cheery housemate. My radio alarm would wake me at precisely the same… Read more ›
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The Missionary Position
At the L.A. Times, John Mueller somehow got his hands on a screener of Rambo (which did not officially screen for the press) and totted up the body count of the latest film in the series, comparing it to its… Read more ›
Sacrificing Private Ryan
So… I’m not a fan of Saving Private Ryan. One of its core messages was about that same as Peter Jackson’s The Two Towers: “Show your enemies no mercy, for you will be shown none.” And Spielberg really drives that… Read more ›
All Schlock Docs Are Not Created Equal
Cruising through the cinematic zeitgeist meter that Rotten Tomatoes has become, here’s a sampling of opinions regarding Ben Stein’s Expelled, followed by its official “Tomato Meter” rating as of a certain long-ago morning: A cynical attempt to sucker Christian conservatives… Read more ›