Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been totaled in a crash that killed the driver, and then proceeded to dissect out each of its hundreds of distorted parts, make fiberglass copies of them, paint them a uniform light gray and reassemble them as a ghost wreck: maximum violence contradicted by a sort of plodding cool...
HARRY KNOWLES, Ain't It Cool News: "Any film with Jean-Claude Van Damme...
...asking everybody to please don't come to Jasper Saturday," said County Sheriff Billy Rowles. "Let us handle it." He has good reason to be worried. Wednesday's autopsy report on Byrd's killing will have done little to cool passions in the town: It confirmed that Byrd's head had been ripped from his body after he was dragged behind a vehicle, which had also broken his back, legs, arms and collarbone and ground his elbows, kneecaps, lower back and both heels to the bone...
...wound up second banana to Stallone in the Rambo canon. (And, disappointingly, Candice Bergen as the love interest, to whose acting the cheap-shot term "wooden" truly does apply.) A bit of a plodder, but plenty of powerful stuff. The short happy life of Po-hang, a year before Cool Hand Luke, will tear your heart...
...Joseph Cotten on the road. Sooo good, you retch a little. 6. Foreign Correspondent (1940). Vintage controlled Hitchcock: clean lines, great plot and arresting images like the oft-copied black umbrella scene. 7. Laura (1944). Queen of the noirs. Don't get me started on Gene Tierney. 8. Cool Hand Luke (1967). It is impossible to see this movie too many times. And if you are the right kind of person, it will make you want to go to jail. 9. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1981). Bogey and Walter Huston get out in the sun for a real psychological...