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  Coraline 2009

  ★★★ Added

  Michigan water witch Coraline travels to alternate dimensions bought with buttons in this claymation classic. Our heroine frets being stuck in this dreary world shared with oddball neighbors and twelve leaky windows. But there’s only so often someone can complain about being bored before it rubs off on us too- boredom is as contagious as a yawn.

  The director of Nightmare Before Christmas presents a new stop-motion vision that is a gorgeous technical achievement. The story beyond the dazzling visuals,…

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  Ruthless People 1986

  ★★★★ Added

  If you kidnapped the obnoxious wife of the scummiest creep in LA, would you be able to get the money and get away? Would be tough even if the guy actually wanted her back, let alone if he’s hoping you kill her. From the comedy team behind Airplane and the Naked Gun series, Ruthless People is a game of Snakes and Ladders gone berserk. This film takes endless twists as characters double-cross each other, knowingly or otherwise. As motivations and…

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  Canadian Bacon 1995

  ★★½ Added

  Despite feeling freshly relevant given current US-Canada tensions, Canadian Bacon is truly a time capsule. It’s a peek into a world after the end of the Cold War before the Global War on Terror truly consumed us. A strange point in time we refer to as “the 90s”. The USSR traded their strategic bombers for Pepsi and McDonalds. The US won the Cold War and now had a Peace Dividend problem- what happens to the war machine when you run…

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  Salesman 1969

  ★★★★★ Added 1

  “Any man that’s not good at selling should be good at making excuses” and Paul Brennan is a masterclass in excuses. The leads are no good, cant get pitches in, buyers aren’t home, couldn’t find the houses, customers have no money. Brennan has used them all. In fact, he’s even making excuses for his ‘sick and tired’ sales manager Kennie, prompting his manager to stop Paul and assert “Paul, permit me to offer my own alibi”.

  We are quickly thrust…

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