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Kali Tuttle

Kali Tuttle

Kali (pronounced Kaylee) lives in Utah and loves it there. She started writing for MovieBabble in college after going through a minor identity crisis. She enjoys making fun of movies and analyzing them to death.

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    Tom Hardy Plays Tom Hardy in ‘Lawless’

    by Kali Tuttle September 15, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle September 15, 2022

    Tom Hardy’s movies appeal to a specific subset of theater audiences. Whether it’s Lawless, Warrior, or Venom, he plays the same type of guy. He’s the strong, silent type that everyone either wants to be or wants to be with. …

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    Lessons Learned From ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’

    by Kali Tuttle August 30, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle August 30, 2022

    I’m going to get real personal, real quick: I’ve been having a rough time lately. I wasn’t super amped to watch An Officer and a Gentleman, but I’m glad I did. It was one of the most …

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    Let’s Switch Glenn Close and Harrison Ford’s Roles in ‘Air Force One’

    by Kali Tuttle August 16, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle August 16, 2022

    Harrison Ford is the beloved American President, James Marshall, in Air Force One. Glenn Close plays Vice President Kathryn Bennett who uses all her resources to save the president and his family on the titular plane. …

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    ‘Road to Perdition’s’ Score Got Me in My Feels

    by Kali Tuttle July 23, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle July 23, 2022

    Thomas Newman is my all-time favorite film composer. I love his scores for Cinderella Man, Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and Road to Perdition. I don’t know a lot about music theory, but I do know that Newman’s scores …

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    The Perfect Spider-Man Movie?

    by Kali Tuttle July 21, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle July 21, 2022

    After a recent rewatch of The Amazing Spider-Man, I have decided that, while I think Tom Holland is still the best Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield may be on the same level. The Amazing Spider-Man, which hit the big screen ten …

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    ‘That Touch of Mink’ Flirts with the Hays Code

    by Kali Tuttle July 17, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle July 17, 2022

    That Touch of Mink is essentially a big euphemism. In the waning days of the Hays Code — the morality guidelines ruling over Hollywood from 1934 to 1968 — That Touch of Mink tiptoed around the rules like …

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    Chill Out, Batman (and Robin)

    by Kali Tuttle July 12, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle July 12, 2022

    Living in Gotham City isn’t the best gig in the world. Living in Gotham City with Batman and Robin running around destroying half the city in the name of “justice”? That’s nearly unbearable. It’s like …

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    ‘Patriot Games’ Proves Harrison Ford Is the Best Jack Ryan

    by Kali Tuttle July 8, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle July 8, 2022

    I’m on a Jack Ryan kick lately and nothing satisfies my craving more than Harrison Ford in that role. Patriot Games is the first of two Jack Ryan adventures that Ford embarks on. The second, Clear …

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    ‘The Sum of All Fears’: A Jack Ryan Film Without a Jack Ryan

    by Kali Tuttle July 7, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle July 7, 2022

    Harrison Ford only starred in two Jack Ryan films — Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger — but he defined the character with those performances. Ryan wasn’t a spring chicken in military intelligence, but he certainly was …

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    ‘Insomnia’ Is a Sleeper Hit

    by Kali Tuttle July 2, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle July 2, 2022

    Christopher Nolan’s earlier films were not as big as they should have been. Films like Memento and Insomnia should have had the cultural impact that Inception or The Dark Knight had, but Nolan just hadn’t hit his stride in the public consciousness yet. …

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    ‘About a Boy’ Is About All Kinds of Relationships

    by Kali Tuttle June 23, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle June 23, 2022

    Strangely, About a Boy strays from the romance category and embraces a whole catalog of love. The Weitz brothers — Paul and Chris Weitz — don’t limit the film to the romantic side of love, a …

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    ‘Volcano’ Is RIDICULOUS

    by Kali Tuttle May 11, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle May 11, 2022

    Volcanoes are probably my worst fear. I watched Dante’s Peak and was scared, so I don’t know why I was so eager to jump into Volcano. I had no need to worry though, as Volcano was about the most ridiculous …

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    ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance’ Is a Tale of Contrast

    by Kali Tuttle May 7, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle May 7, 2022

    John Wayne and James Stewart were two of the defining actors of Westerns in the mid-20th century. Movies like The Searchers, Winchester ’73, and, of course, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance are still well-received films that are …

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    ‘Newsies’ Characters as Theater Kid Stereotypes

    by Kali Tuttle May 2, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle May 2, 2022

    I refuse to watch the Broadway musical Newsies because I have a strong loyalty to the 1992 Disney film version of the production starring Christian Bale. Why do I love it so much? The numbers are catchy, …

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    Let’s Replace Brad Pitt in ‘The Devil’s Own’

    by Kali Tuttle April 14, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle April 14, 2022

    Brad Pitt’s performance in The Devil’s Own is good. I think his Irish accent is melodious and I enjoy listening to it. Not being Irish myself, I can’t speak to the authenticity of it, but I …

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    A Fond/Disturbing Remembrance of ‘The Lawnmower Man’

    by Kali Tuttle April 12, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle April 12, 2022

    The Lawnmower Man isn’t the most popular sci-fi film ever made in the 90s. It’s certainly a weird one. Yet, it’s strangely relevant to 2022 and the wonders of modern technology. The Lawnmower Man is about Jobe …

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    ‘Hart’s War’ Is One Big Surprise After Another

    by Kali Tuttle March 18, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle March 18, 2022

    Before watching Hart’s War, I had read no summary of the movie. I knew it took place in World War II and had Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell. Other than that, I was completely in the dark. …

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    ‘Dante’s Peak’ Scared the Crap Out of Me

    by Kali Tuttle March 15, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle March 15, 2022

    One of my biggest fears is volcanoes and Dante’s Peak accentuates that fact. This is generally pretty irrational, considering I live in the Intermountain West (don’t bring up Yellowstone), yet the fear has persisted my …

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    ‘A Walk to Remember’ Will Make You Cry (If You Want To or Not)

    by Kali Tuttle March 11, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle March 11, 2022

    I am the youngest of three older sisters, so you can imagine the emotions that ran rampant in our household. I vividly remember watching A Walk to Remember with my sisters several times throughout my 2000s …

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    ‘Black Hawk Down’ Is Good, but Not Like You’d Expect

    by Kali Tuttle March 8, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle March 8, 2022

    I only recently saw Black Hawk Down for the first time, but I was well aware of the history behind the film and knew what I was getting into. Despite the minor corniness you get …

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    The ‘Juice”d Up Hip-Hop of the 90s

    by Kali Tuttle March 4, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle March 4, 2022

    It’s hard to imagine a movie that has more 90s hip-hop nostalgia than Juice. It was the golden age for movies like it, with Boyz n the Hood in 1991 and Menace II Society in …

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    David and Goliath and ‘JFK’

    by Kali Tuttle February 1, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle February 1, 2022

    JFK has its share of flaws. Director Oliver Stone, a Vietnam veteran, displays his strong disdain for the government throughout the film. Blinded by this, some of the information included in the film is incorrect and some …

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    Lisbeth Deserved Better in David Fincher’s ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’

    by Kali Tuttle December 23, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle December 23, 2021

    Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) got the ending that Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) deserved in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. After years of the government bouncing her around and facing discrimination and violence, she deserved to be …

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    ‘The English Patient’ Is a Villain Origin Story

    by Kali Tuttle December 3, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle December 3, 2021

    Ralph Fiennes excels at playing villains, even when he isn’t necessarily trying to. The English Patient is a good example of this. Even though Laszlo de Almásy (Fiennes) is our main character that we should sympathize with, …

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    Martin Scorcese’s Hitchcockian ‘Cape Fear’

    by Kali Tuttle November 29, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle November 29, 2021

    Cape Fear is a Hitchcock film without Hitchcock. Who better to make it than Martin Scorcese, the master of all things bloody and dark? It’s the kind of film that theaters were made for. Cape Fear is …

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    ‘How Green Was My Valley’: Always Relevant

    by Kali Tuttle November 4, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle November 4, 2021

    I was introduced to How Green Was My Valley through Frasier (and no one was surprised). There’s an episode where Frasier goes to several different video rental stores just to find this one movie — How Green Was My Valley. …

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    ‘My Own Private Idaho’ Is a Journey of Feelings

    by Kali Tuttle October 29, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle October 29, 2021

    My Own Private Idaho is weird to watch for the first time. I don’t know what I was expecting, but a group of young male prostitutes with Shakespearean vernacular was not it. All I knew about …

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    ‘Training Day’: The Making of a ‘Good’ Villain

    by Kali Tuttle October 21, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle October 21, 2021

    I’d never seen Training Day before this past week and so I had the idea in my head that Denzel Washington’s character, Alonzo, was the hero of our story. He was rough around the edges and a …

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    The ‘Drive’ Cult

    by Kali Tuttle October 1, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle October 1, 2021

    You never really know what you’re in for when you watch Drive. You think it’s a movie about crime, then it becomes a slow-burning journey of self-discovery, then it’s a romance, then it’s back to a crime …

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    ‘Warrior’: Good Versus…Good?

    by Kali Tuttle September 23, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle September 23, 2021

    Warrior is a dramatic look at the world of MMA, as seen through the eyes of two brothers with a complicated relationship. While this is a sports movie primarily about fighting, much of Warrior is dedicated to …

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