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Django Unchained (2012)

8.1 (57 Ratings) Rate It

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Two years before the Civil War, Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave, finds himself accompanying an...

Tarantino Western

Keegan McHargue recommended Eating Raoul (1982) in Movies (curated)

Eating Raoul (1982)

1982 | Comedy, Crime

(0 Ratings)

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"This is just one of those movies that leaves you feeling queasy all over. Eating Raoul plays on all the stereotypical shock/schlock clichés typical of so-called B culture, which at the time (the early 1980s) was also being probed by Paul Bartel’s fellow Angelenos Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw (and perhaps further up the coast by the Kuchar brothers), who were also fascinated with and inspired by the prudish 1950s. Is there a moral here? Does there need to be? Why, exactly, is this film in the Criterion Collection? All questions better to put out of your mind when you pop it in."

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated A Cajun Werewolf Christmas (Stormy Weather, #6) in Books

Jan 11, 2021

3.5 stars.

This was a nice kind of extended epilogue to book 5, after all the gang appears at the cabin and they decide to spend Christmas there.

It was nice to see more of the interaction between the brothers and cousins and there mates, especially after reading their individual books and growing to like them all. I liked that they're all so close they can tease and taunt each other.

Amanda going into labour (finally) and how everyone reacted made me smile and how they were all trying to outdo each other for a present for the baby.

It was a nice round-up to the series.

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Four Brothers (2005) in Movies

Jan 13, 2021

Four Brothers (2005)

2005 | Action, Drama

7.3

(7 Ratings)

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Revenge and Vengeance

Four Brothers- is a good movie. It has action, suspense, thrills and chills.

The plot: When an inner-city Detroit foster mother (Fionnula Flanagan) is murdered in a botched holdup, four of her now-grown adopted children suspect it was no random killing. Rising musician Jack (Garrett Hedlund), former-Marine Angel (Tyrese Gibson), hotheaded hockey player Bobby (Mark Wahlberg) and settled-down husband and father Jeremiah (André Benjamin) go on the hunt for neighborhood criminal kingpin Victor Sweet (Chiwetel Ejiofor) while being trailed themselves by the local beat cops.

The cast is good, the action is good, the suspense is good and its a good thriller.

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated We Own the Night (2007) in Movies

Jan 13, 2021

We Own the Night (2007)

2007 | Action, Drama

6.5

(4 Ratings)

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Two Brothers

We Own The Night- is a good crime drama film. It does have action, suspense and thrills as well.

The plot: In 1988, New York's police wage an all-out war on drugs, and guilty and innocent alike become casualties. Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix), manager of a nightclub that is often frequented by gangsters, tries to remain neutral but hides a potentially fatal secret: His brother (Mark Wahlberg) and father (Robert Duvall) are both cops. After his brother is wounded in an assassination attempt, Bobby can no longer remain neutral. He joins forces with his brother for an all-out assault on the mob.

Its a decent crime drama.

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Dean (6925 KP) rated The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) in Movies

Jul 31, 2020

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

2018 | Comedy, Drama, Western

7.1

(13 Ratings)

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A couple of good stories (0 more)

Mix bag of stories, most with little meaning (0 more)

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Well I like Westerns, Anthology films and some of Coen brothers films are great. So surely this was going to be a sure hit. Much like one of the stories you're hoping for gold but left with barely a glimmer.
6 stories of which a couple were good, a few just average and a dud. The biggest disappointment was that there appeared to be little point to stories, individually or collectively. Halfway through and it was becoming boring and just hoping the next story would be a big improvement. Only to fail. A real shame.