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Bang The Drum Slowly (…not THAT slowly)
April 6, 2014 – 8:42 PM | 14 Comments
<em>Bang The Drum Slowly</em> (…not THAT slowly)

Bruce Pearson (Robert De Niro), C-plus catcher for the New York Mammoths, finds out before the season begins that he has terminal Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The only other person he entrusts with the information is his …

The Crushed Film Festival presents: Backdraft
December 29, 2010 – 12:41 AM | 16 Comments
The Crushed Film Festival presents: <I>Backdraft</I>

The Movie: Backdraft
The Crush Object: Kurt Russell
The Story: The Netflix plot summary pretty much covers it: “[Firefighter] brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey (William Baldwin and Kurt Russell) are battling each other over past slights while …

The Departed
August 23, 2008 – 11:22 AM | 39 Comments
<I>The Departed</I>

It’s a very good movie; it’s not a great movie. Conventional wisdom is that Scorsese got the Oscar for The Departed that he’d actually earned for GoodFellas (or Raging Bull); I can accept that, and …