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Entries from April 2008

The Iron Giant (1999)

April 30th, 2008 · 5 Comments

 
Synopsis
As Sputnik orbits Earth in the year 1957, something from outer space plummets through the eye of a storm and lands in the waters off the coast of “Rockwell,” Maine. The [...]

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Tags: Animation · Based on novel · Military · Mother/son relationship · No opening credits · Paranoia · Small town

Coming Home (1978)

April 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Synopsis
Luke Martin (Jon Voight) is at the pool table of a VA hospital with the other disabled veterans, who start to talk about whether they’d go back to fight if they could. One of the vets states that this logic makes sense to [...]

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Tags: Ambiguous ending · Brother/sister relationship · Military · Prostitute · Unconventional romance

Klute (1971)

April 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments

 
Synopsis
A soft spoken but unwavering police officer from rural Pennsylvania named John Klute (Donald Sutherland) is compelled to investigate the disappearance of his best friend Tom Gruneman. The FBI claims that Gruneman led “a Jekyll and Hyde existence” and wrote several obscene letters [...]

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Tags: Paranoia · Prostitute · Psychoanalysis · Unconventional romance · Woman in jeopardy

The Mack (1973)

April 15th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Synopsis
John “Goldie” Mickens (Max Julien) and his partner Slim (Richard Pryor) are ambushed by rival gunmen in a junkyard. Two white detectives (Dan Gordon and William Watson) arrive on the scene and debate whether to kill Goldie or arrest him. Six years later, Goldie [...]

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Tags: Blaxploitation · Brother/brother relationship · Crooked officer · Cult favorite · Famous line · Gangsters and hoodlums · Master and pupil · Prostitute · Shootout