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Cinophile – Gone In 60 Seconds
Welcome to the first edition of Cinophile - a weekly feature showcasing films that are strange, brilliant, bizarre and explains why we love the movies. And today’s choice is Gone in 60 Seconds. No,...
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Cinophile – Scrooged
Everyone loves Bill Murray. He”s been a stoner, a ghost hunter and a oceanic explorer, to name a few. But could you imagine him as a ruthless and cold corporate stooge? Probably – and you know he”d...
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Cinophile – Riki Oh: The Story of Ricky
You have not seen The Story of Ricky. Okay, maybe you have. Then you are only reading this for a graphic description of someone’s head exploding. Or getting strangled with entrails. Boy, they really...
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Cinophile – The Prophecy
It might seem easy to typecast Christopher Walken, but it isn’t. Though he has done his share of crime bosses (like the notorious Frank White), Walken is best when he’s that right-hand man that...
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Cinophile – Bad Taste
Ian McKellen once said that if he had seen Bad Taste instead of Heavenly Creatures, he wouldn’t have starred in Lord Of The Rings. In fact, it is hard to imagine that the same director was responsible...
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Cinophile – Dark City
My, how times change. Today Kiefer Sutherland is a lovable, torture-prone spy, while Rufus Sewell is best remembered as a bad jouster who tackled the Joker, after which he was a bad vampire tackling...
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Cinophile – Deathstalker
Not all barbarian movies are made equal. Not all barbarian movies have budget for any real special effects. Not all barbarian movies can afford big, hulking slabs of Austrian meat. Not all barbarian...
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Cinophile – The Car
Nobody can flog a dead horse like the movie business, the exception being drunk conspiracy theorists. Yet amazingly some themes are practically anemic when it comes to use and abuse. Point in case: the...
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Cinophile – Pink Flamingos
The word ‘toilet humor’ is thrown around too easily these days. And too many films resort to disgusting punchlines because they don’t know how to be funny. But aficionados of the filthy gag know it is...
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Cinophile: Re-Animator
The mid-Eighties was a special time for horror, creating some unique genre movies. Night Of The Creeps, Evil Dead 2, House, Fright Night, Silver Bullet, The Gate, Hellraiser… good times. A few of these...
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Cinophile: Dobermann
When you are given your first gun before you were even age 1 – and you took a liking to it immediately – can say a lot about your future career prospects. It will likely involve crime, violence, drugs...
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Cinophile – True Romance
Very few Tarantino scripts have been made by other people. One was the notorious Natural Born Killers, so disliked by Quentin that he disowned the film and might have physically attacked producer Don...
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Cinophile – Commando
This may seem like an odd choice for a cult movie, given it was a big hit for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Surely something like The Last Action Hero might seem like a better choice. But two years shy of its...
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Cinophile: The Devil’s Rejects
Rob Zombie makes scary movies, not all of which fall in line with popular tastes. Sometimes he goes a bit too weird, like House Of 1000 Corpses. Other times he goes too far, such as the visceral...
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Cinophile – Mr. Nobody
Often a film is incorrectly labeled as ‘science fiction’. Often that happens because the film transcends genres, but has some high-tech stuff as well. Often it’s because nobody can tell what genre the...
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Cinophile – Eight Legged Freaks
Spiders do not get movie roles all that often. There was Arachnophobia, which gave people creepy crawly terrors 23 years ago. That played a little on the fear some people harbor for these creatures....
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Cinophile: Angel Heart
How do you explain a movie without giving away the catch, but still indulge in all kinds of witty wordplay? You don’t write about Angel Heart. Yet here we are, so this will be a dull as paint write-up....
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Cinophile: Versus
Versus was a make-or-break film. The title apparently refers to the director’s struggles in the movie industry, but it is equally apt at explaining what this film is about. You have the good guy, the...
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Cinophile: Warlock
In the convoluted world of magical practitioners, it is often assumed that men are wizards and women are witches. The Harry Potter series went a bit of the way to fix this glib generalisation, showing...
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Cinophile: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Instead of using lame educational sketches and buoyant students who scream “Get high on life!” to bored school hall assemblies, drug educators should look at movies to do the heavy lifting. And while...
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