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Forum: Movie Reviews 13 hours ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
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Gloria - My #3

You might see an annoying kid, but I see Gena Rowlands giving the greatest performance of her entire career, and another John Cassavetes...
Forum: Movie Reviews 13 hours ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
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4. Taxi Driver - A classic that I've seen over...

4. Taxi Driver - A classic that I've seen over and over again - one of those that always seems to be playing on television, or being watched by somebody when I happen to be around. I catch scenes...
Forum: Movie Reviews 13 hours ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
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#4 The Third Man (1946) - I forgot it! I forgot,...

#4 The Third Man (1946) - I forgot it! I forgot, I forgot - damn it. The Third Man would have been at the upper end of my ballot, but I forgot all about it, and as such is the only film that I have...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 13 hours ago
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
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Forum: Movie Reviews 15 hours ago
Replies: 281
My 2024 Watchlist Obsession!
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LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945)

Directed by : John M. Stahl

The first thing I did when considering Leave Her to Heaven was pick up Danny...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
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Let's Scare Jessica to Death - (1971)

Here's one I just...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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My 2024 Watchlist Obsession!
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SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (1965)

Directed by : Sergei Parajanov

Just as it's title would suggest, our trip back in...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By PHOENIX74
Yeah, do it early.

Yeah, do it early.
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
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Animal Kingdom - My #25

This Australian film was my 1-pointer, and as it didn't show I guess it got votes from at least one other person. It...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
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5. The Long Goodbye - On my Robert Altman review...

5. The Long Goodbye - On my Robert Altman review thread I wrote this about TLG - "The longer you look at The Long Goodbye the more remarkable it seems, and the better sense you get of what you should...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
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#5 Touch of Evil - I started my recent review of...

#5 Touch of Evil - I started my recent review of Touch of Evil by focusing on the character who Orson Welles completely disappears into, and who drives the movie forcefully into classic territory -...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
Replies: 281
My 2024 Watchlist Obsession!
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KOYAANISQATSI (1982)

Directed by : Godfrey Reggio

So, I was given a real snapshot of the entire world and humanity circa 1976 to 1981 last...
Forum: Movie Reviews 3 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
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7. Le Samouraï - If I'd have voted for Le...

7. Le Samouraï - If I'd have voted for Le Samouraï then there's a chance that Se7en would have actually come in 7th spot, so sorry for that. Anyway, I've seen this once but feel like I need to see it...
Forum: Movie Reviews 3 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
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I just realised a HUGE omission from my list that...

I just realised a HUGE omission from my list that is coming up, and I have my head buried in my hands.....
Forum: Movie Reviews 3 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
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#6 In a Lonely Place - Oh, how good this is. It...

#6 In a Lonely Place - Oh, how good this is. It came up on my watchlist recently, and this is the review I wrote :



Despite only having seen it recently, In a Lonely Place ended up snagging a...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
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Baby Reindeer - (2024)

I know, I know - not a movie, but I rarely sneak anything...
Forum: Movie Reviews 3 days ago
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My 2024 Watchlist Obsession!
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CITIZEN X (1995)

Directed by : Chris Gerolmo

There aren't many HBO-type 'movie of the week' television deals in my watchlist, but Citizen X made...
Forum: Ongoing Tournaments & Brackets 3 days ago
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33rd Hall of Fame
Posted By PHOENIX74
Has any host ever abused their privileges and...

Has any host ever abused their privileges and given themselves loads of extra time?

(I'm waiting until the countdowns finish, in case anyone is wondering.)
Forum: Movie Reviews 4 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
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#7 Out of the Past (1947) - For a moment there I...

#7 Out of the Past (1947) - For a moment there I thought I might have forgotten about Out of the Past, but sure enough it's on my ballot. At it's central core, it has that familiar element to film...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 4 days ago
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
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Vagabond - (1985)

Tales of drifters and vagabonds can get depressing at times, but...
Forum: Movie Reviews 4 days ago
Replies: 281
My 2024 Watchlist Obsession!
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He misses nothing

MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (1929)

Directed by : Dziga Vertov

So it seems in the late 1920s a Soviet artist finally...
Forum: Movie Reviews 5 days ago
Replies: 2,178
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
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8. Memento - This is fantastic. If Christopher...

8. Memento - This is fantastic. If Christopher Nolan had of told me "I'm making a film with all of the scenes in reverse order, because it's about a man with no short-term memory", I'd have told him...
Forum: Movie Reviews 5 days ago
Replies: 1,831
The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
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#8 The Big Sleep (1946) - The Big Sleep is a big...

#8 The Big Sleep (1946) - The Big Sleep is a big movie, and to tell you the truth I like Humphrey Bogart in just about everything I've ever seen him in - but here he has a coolness and style that...
Forum: Movie Reviews 5 days ago
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My 2024 Watchlist Obsession!
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DANTE'S INFERNO (1911)
(L’Inferno)

Directed by : Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan & Giuseppe De Liguoro

You can look at the 1911...
Forum: Movie Reviews 6 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
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9. Blood Simple - This is a really good film that...

9. Blood Simple - This is a really good film that didn't quite make my ballot. I've seen it a couple of times - it's a very heavy, adult, dark-toned movie. A million, trillion miles from The Coen's...