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Entries from November 2005

Heaven’s Gate (1980)

November 30th, 2005 · No Comments

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, the 1870 graduating class of Harvard College - including James Averill (Kris Kristofferson) - are bid a speech by their class orator (John Hurt), in which he refutes the high minded ideals laid down by the reverend doctor of the university, and merely advises his classmates to rise no further than each […]

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Tags: Western

The Last Detail (1973)

November 28th, 2005 · No Comments

Jack Nicholson stars at his defiant best, playing a “bad ass” Navy warrant officer tasked with escorting a sailor (Randy Quaid) up the East Coast during winter’s bleak to serve an eight year sentence at Portsmouth Naval Prison for trying to steal $40 from the base commander wife’s polio donation can. Nicholson does his […]

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Year of the Dragon (1985)

November 17th, 2005 · No Comments

Politically charged and audacious police procedural pulls no punches in its chronicle of a New York police detective who unleashes a dizzying vendetta against the Chinese triad importing heroin and terrorizing New York’s Chinatown.
Directed by Michael […]

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Harold and Maude (1971)

November 16th, 2005 · No Comments

A teenager (Bud Cort) - who drives a hearse and is so disaffected by what he sees around him that he repeatedly fakes suicide to get the attention of his mother - has an affair with a spitfire seventy […]

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Tags: Black comedy