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Frigid Winter Warming Spectacular: Best Nuclear Explosion! (Pt. 3)

With Part Two in the books and the Polar Vortex quickly retreating (not to mention my readers’ patience), let’s wrap this explosive competition. Reviewed in previous posts: Asteroid City, The Dark Knight Rises, The Day After, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Failsafe, Fat Man and Little Boy, Godzilla, Indiana Jones/Crystal Skull, Matinee, Oppenheimer and The Peacemaker. Which leaves five until we pick a winner. Buckle up.

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Frigid Winter Warming Spectacular: Best Nuclear Explosion! (Pt. 1)

Inspired by tense family holiday gatherings (and a recent rewatch of Oppenheimer), let’s turn our attention towards ranking Hollywood’s most memorable depictions of nuclear explosions, the kind of conflagrations I’d welcome with open, melting arms considering the temperature in my hometown hasn’t muscled its way past zero going on three days now. #wintersucks

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Greatest Chase Scenes, Vol.2 (Bipedal) — Part Two

In Part One, which I’m sure provided you with a drug-like high that’s yet to wear off, we covered foot chases in such varied films as The Last of the Mohicans, Raising Arizona, The Third Man, Point Break and The Bourne Ultimatum. Let’s dig right into six more, including the CFS’s choice as Greatest of All Time.

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Purple Rain Revisited

The untimely passing of His Royal Badness has offered up one bittersweet positive: various movie-theater chains are showing a limited engagement of Purple Rain (1984) on the big screen.

Back in the fall of 1984, at the tender age of 15, The Conflicted Film Snob was lucky enough to see the film with some friends during its original

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