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Death Proof
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Death Proof Review

William McPherson

Kurt Russell plays a dark brooding, but still stylish creepy stalker type in “Death Proof." His character, Stunt Man Mike, is a guy who trolls around looking for young ladies to turn into his next victim. Equipped with an Elvis comb-over and a custom made stunt car that can survive even the worst wrecks unscathed. I first saw this movie as part of the package deal that was known as Grindhouse, which also featured the great Planet Terror. The pacing of this movie is probably the weakest part of…

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3,000 Miles to Graceland
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3,000 Miles to Graceland Review

William McPherson

This movie, while both a critical and box office failure, is to me a good hidden gem example of a fun “garbage movie”. Take the preposterous plot that involves a large group of Elvis impersonators robbing a Vegas casino and then wind up turning on each other (have mercy!) leaving the two alpha males to fight over the remaining prize. (They just could not go on together, with suspicious minds… Okay, I’ll stop) Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner are both huge Elvis fans so it’s easy to see the fun…

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Man on the Moon
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Man on the Moon Review

William McPherson

Man on the Moon is not a wrestling movie really, but a good portion of it is devoted to Andy Kauffman, who was an ahead of his time comedian and avant-guard provocateur and his dabblings in pro wrestling. It all started out with him wrestling women as a comedy skit, and evolved to him actually taking the act to actual wrestling arenas in the Tennessee area in the early 80s. He did a series of hilarious interviews explaining to the “backwater hillbillies” of the area, which made up the local…

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No Holds Barred
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No Holds Barred Review

William McPherson

Some movies that you see and love as a child should be left in your childhood and never revisited as an adult, lest you tarnish those memories. No Holds Barred is just such a movie. I knew going in that this movie was not going to be a classic by any stretch of the imagination, but I wasn’t fully prepared for just how bad it was going to be. That said, if this movie does not contain cherished childhood memories it is so laughably bad that it is perversely entertaining. Hulk Hogan, who plays Rip…

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Beyond the Mat
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Beyond the Mat Review

William McPherson

It’s strange to think when this movie started, it was going to be much more of a WCW influenced documentary than a WWF one, and Mick Foley was going to be in the Jake Roberts role of, wrestler down on his luck in the last days of his career. All of this according to Foley himself on a recent podcast, who said, in 1995 when he first met director Barry Blaustein, that he was currently working in various independent organizations, including the beloved hardcore Bingo Hall promotion known as Extreme…

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Ready to Rumble
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Ready to Rumble Review

William McPherson

If the people who ran World Wrestling Entertainment were as inept at what they do as the producers of this movie were at making a comedy, that form of entertainment would have went out of business decades ago. Ready to Rumble is a wrestling movie produced in conjunction with a wrestling company, that did in fact go out of business from being that inept, and this movie while not a major moment, was definitely a bump in the road to their eventual demise, especially considering the star of this…

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Requiem for a Heavyweight
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Requiem for a Heavyweight Review

William McPherson

This is a very interesting and historically significant film for a number of reasons. In the opening scene we see Muhammad Ali (Still Cassius Clay at the time) in a boxing match with Mountain Rivera (Anthony Quinn) in a bout so one sided it forces Rivera to retire. Facing retirement now, Rivera finds that he has few marketable skills and that his only option may be to begin a career in the, to him, detestable “rigged” world of professional wrestling. Wrestling fans be forewarned here, the world…

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The Big Kahuna
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The Big Kahuna Review

William McPherson

Three salesman converge upon a Wichita hotel suite where they are holding one of those dreadfully boring business get togethers in order to snag a big time client referred to as The Big Kahuna. In the meantime, as they wait for the party they all take turns waxing poetic on life and what it means to be a human being. What a hidden gem for those who haven’t seen this movie, which I’m guessing would be most people. This is one of my favorite movies of all time featuring two of my favorite…

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Stranger Than Fiction
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Stranger Than Fiction

William McPherson2 Comments

Harold Crick breaks for the fourth wall of his own life when he discovers that he is in fact a character in a book being written in a parallel universe. He begins hearing strange voices that turn out to be the narrator of the movie and eventually discovers the half written manuscript and being mystified, shows it to a critic friend of his who informs him that, given the trajectory of the story he is probably going to die at the end of it, and not only that, he must allow his death to happen in…

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The Boy Next Door
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The Boy Next Door Review

William McPherson

  If you are a man, one of the trade-offs for being in a relationship with members of the opposite sex is that occasionally you have to watch garbage like this. Most of the time it’s not that big of a deal. If all chick flicks were as horrendous as “The Boy Next Door” it would make it a much different matter. Jennifer Lopez plays a boring estranged housewife with a cheating husband, who stupidly decides to screw the attractive psycho teenager next door. Said psycho teenager spends the rest…

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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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The Man Who Knew Too Much Review

William McPherson4 Comments

Dr. Ben McKenna, (James Stewart) goes on holiday with his wife (Doris Day) and son in Morocco where they bump into a couple of strangers who will forever alter the course of their lives. The stranger winds up dead, and when they attempt to report his death they wind up mixed up in an assassination plot far bigger than they could have imagined. In order to shut them up, their young son is kidnapped, which takes them on a globe hopping hunt to find him. Talk about a tourist trap. This is one of…

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Jeremiah Johnson
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Jeremiah Johnson Review

William McPherson

Jeremiah Johnson is an overlooked northern western that tells the story of a man who leaves behind one society for a simpler life, but soon finds that simple definitely does not equate to easy. Johnson is played by Robert Redford in a role that he absolutely owns from beginning to end. This is one of the films I use a bench mark whenever I reference any other film of the same genre being “beautifully photographed” or having superb cinematography. Jeremiah Johnson creates a world and a landscape…

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Montage of Heck
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Montage Of Heck Review

William McPherson

HBO for the past few years has had a very cool way of doing musician biographies, using old footage and interviews, and other direct sources from the people in the spotlight to tell their own stories. I have seen both the Rolling Stones, and Sinatra’s documentaries, but of all of those, Kurt Cobain’s “Montage of Heck” is by far the best, and has the most interesting material to work with (in terms of the life story, not a musical judgment mind you). Brett Morgen has produced a near masterpiece…

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Rolling Thunder Review

William McPherson

Movies can tell us a lot about the political and social climate of the times in which they were made. The 70s for instance, as evidenced by movies like this, Death Wish, and Dirty Harry was a time when there was a lot of right wing backlash against the previous decade bubbling up. We had a return of the old masculine heroes of yesteryear, only they were combined with the counter culture anti-heroes of the 60s who didn’t give a damn what the audience thought of them, only now instead of fighting…

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Christine
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Christine Review

William McPherson

Sometime in high school I read the Stephen King novel ‘Christine’ that this movie was based upon, and I really dug it. This movie for the most part faithfully follows the novel, cutting out a few things, and combining a character or two for the sake of brevity. Christine is a 1958 red and white Plymouth Fury built during a time of American innocence and prosperity, but that somehow became indwelt with evil incarnate. Accidents and deaths follow this car from the moment it rolls off the assembly…

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Swamp Thing
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Swamp Thing Review

William McPherson

Way down in the swamps of Louisiana, Dr. Alec Holland (and his sister) has created a top-secret a secret formula that gives both plants/animals (and humans) that touch it the ability to survive in extreme conditions. It basically takes whatever the core essence of the thing it touches and makes that their super power. Alice, a government agent sent to investigate this process, shows up right when Holland is perfecting his formula, and of course, starts falling in love with him. All this is just…

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Killer Klowns From Outer Space
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space Review

William McPherson

This is my wife’s favorite movie, so perhaps I should let her review it. Alright, never mind, she says that’s my job, but I will try to write this in her spirit, like one of those authors “writing in the style of…” whoever. The basic story here is all in the title, a group of circus clowns from outer space land in a sleepy little community and begin harvesting the local residents for their own energy consumption. They do this by bundling them up tight in big rolls of cocoon like cotton candy…

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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Review

William McPherson

Some movies are defined by the age you were when you first saw them. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is just such a movie for me. As a young squire I was blissfully unaware of how absurd it was that Christian Slater and Kevin Costner were portraying classic British legends. I just thought they were cool movie heroes, and I find, I am able to reconnect with those feelings when I re-watch this. On a side note, has Morgan Freeman had one of the longest careers in the niche spot of the “aged character…

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American Sniper Review
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American Sniper Review

William McPherson4 Comments

Clint Eastwood's American Sniper follows Chris Kyle across four tours of duty and the toll it takes on the man behind the legend. Bradley Cooper is outstanding. Full review.

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Once Upon a Time in the West
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Once Upon a Time in the West Review

William McPherson2 Comments

When I think back on the elements that most of my favorite westerns share, a few things come back time and time again in nearly each of them. First, great cinematography and epic settings. Check. Then you must have a memorable score such as the whistling in the “Dollars” trilogy or the old standard title songs from “My Darling Clementine” and others. This movie has one of the most dramatic and enduring scores of any movie ever. What makes it even more effective that it goes against the grain of…

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