True to Its Title, and Nothing More, Hobo With a Shotgun

True to Its Title, and Nothing More, Hobo With a Shotgun
Pick a reason to balk at this spot-on, garishly threadbare paean to ’80s no-budget sleaze: It apes a genre that was already creaky when its director/co-writer, Jason Eisener, was still in nappies; it’s nauseatingly violent; it began life (and arguably should’ve finished it) as a mo…
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“The Avengers”: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Assemble for a Rather Lame Series
Avengers assemble! The call has gone out for the first time in this new Marvel animated universe, and Captain America, Hulk, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Black Panther, Ant-Man, and The Wasp have rallied for the call. Are they the Earth’s mightiest… [read more]
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Dirty Mary Crazy Larry/Race with the Devil
Highly Recommended The Movies Peter Fonda made his mark in low-budget, independent films and, in a way, he never really left the cinematic underground. Although 1969’s Easy Rider , Fonda’s star-making role, is lauded as a watershed moment in filmmaking, it’s worth remembering that the film itself was made for next to nothing (an estimated $ 400,000 budget with a gross of $ 60 million), with actors …
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Flying high with the CofC Quidditch team
How is it, I thought on a recent mid-week afternoon, that I now find myself here, on a field at a college that I never attended, straddling a broom, eluding various balls as they’re being thrown in my direction?
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