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Fantastic Ralph Macchio Movies That Aren t The Karate Kid
Fantastic Ralph Macchio Movies That Aren t The Karate Kid
From The Outsiders to Crossroads to Up the Academy, we take a look at the seminal films of the great Ralph Macchio.
Ralph Macchio is an anomaly as an American actor. He s a leading man but nowadays rarely plays a leading man in the movies. If he is the leading the man, the film most likely isn t a major movie. Macchio clearly doesn t have the bonafides of Keanu Reeves, yet I defy anyone to dispute the idea that Macchio is every bit a natural treasure as Keanu. Yes, there are other actors with bigger and better credits on their resumes. However, is there another actor with the type of movies and roles on their resume, films in which they didn t star, but films that would be a good deal less than what they are if Macchio wasn t in them?
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Phantom Thread is widely available on digital platforms, 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD.
The ‘phantom thread’ in the title of Paul Thomas Anderson’s eighth feature refers to a term that seamstresses working in the East End of Victorian London used to describe the sensation they felt after emerging from long, repetitive hours in the workshop. After returning home exhausted, the women would find their hands moving involuntarily, their fingers clasped as though sewing invisible, ‘phantom’ threads.
It’s a title that offers hints of the gothic undercurrents that drive Anderson’s film, the first the California-native has made outside the US. Phantom Thread is a claustrophobic chamber drama about the balance between giving and taking, conceding and resisting in relationships, and one as singularly unconventional as any he has made since 2002’s Punch-Drunk Love signalled his move away from the dazzlingly orchestrated Scorsese/Altman-isms of Boogie Nights (1997) and Magn