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The Puppet Masters (1994)

6.1 (12 Ratings) Rate It

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An alien spacecraft sets down in rural Iowa, and top-secret government agents Andrew Nivens (Donald...

Encino Man (1992)

6.9 (7 Ratings) Rate It

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California teen Dave Morgan (Sean Astin) is digging a pit for a pool in his backyard when he happens...

Pete Buttigieg recommended My Name is Red in Books (curated)

My Name is Red

Orhan Pamuk, Erdag M. Goknar | 2010 | Fiction & Poetry

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"Ah, the days when Hollywood harbored existentialistic realists, and the entirety of America—from its back roads and highway saloons to its hinterland betting subcultures, working-class desolation, gone-wild farm fields, and small-town cafeterias—was a metaphor for itself, and for all of our postwar lostness. Monte Hellman’s career peak is easily the greatest film I never even heard of as a film-hungry 1970s kid, vanished and hardly ever TV-broadcast, even as I thought the sobering, grown-up likes of Deliverance and Chinatown and Scarecrow were emblematic of an American cinema that had finally reached adulthood. Then came Star Wars."

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Uwe Boll recommended Citizen Kane (1941) in Movies (curated)

Citizen Kane (1941)

1941 | Classics, Drama, Mystery

8.6

(19 Ratings)

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"Citizen Kane is, like you see now, P.T. Anderson‘s There Will Be Blood. It’s a good movie; it’s the same kind of thing. You follow a crazy character who gets really successful, and in a very bitter way. So I really love those two movies. It’s still one of the biggest crimes of Hollywood that they didn’t finance Orson Welles’ movies after a while. To have a genius like him, sitting there and trying to get his last 5,000 bucks together to make another movie after he did a movie like this… (Welles’ follow-up to Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, was notoriously completed and re-cut without his input.)"

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The Cotton Club (1984)

6.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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The lives of various characters intersect at Harlem's renowned Cotton Club. Handsome horn player Dix...

Judge Dredd (1995)

6.4 (17 Ratings) Rate It

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In the crime-plagued future, the only thing standing between order and chaos is Judge Joseph Dredd...

Ali Abbasi recommended Naked Lunch (1991) in Movies (curated)

Naked Lunch (1991)

1991 | Documentary, Drama, Horror

8.4

(5 Ratings)

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"I love William S. Burroughs, and if anybody could do an adaptation of his work, it’s Cronenberg, who made this movie very true to the book. But the movie makes sense, and the book really doesn’t for me—the moment you think it’s starting to make sense, you lose it again. The movie is very cheap and kitschy at certain points yet very sophisticated at others. Naked Lunch is one of the few movies to depict hallucinations that are actually very close to how they really are. It’s not like when you see something like Inception, where the dream sequences are just the Hollywood idea of what a dream could be."

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