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American Pop

Music has had such a huge impact on the history of animation that you’d think that there would have been a movie that captured the excitement of live Rock and Roll, but for some

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Lost in America

I fought the rat race and the rat race won. No one portrays and skewers really intelligent morons the way Albert Brooks does. Here he plays a successful advertising executive who thinks that he

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American Graffiti

Be normal, and the crowd will accept you. Be deranged, and they will make you their leader. – Chris Titus Here’s what the Internet Movie Database says about the young George Lucas    “During his

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High Plains Drifter

Clint Eastwood is the ultimate thinking man’s cinematic killing machine. High Plain’s Drifter is his spooky, dark, and vicious version of the Sergio Leone Man With No Name Spaghetti Westerns he once starred in,

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Helter Skelter

When I was eight or so, I used to check out my parent’s books and look through the pictures and read the captions. The most freaked out I’ve ever been was looking through the

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Dragon

Bruce Lee was pretty cool. After all he hung with Steve McQueen even before he was famous. He wore great clothes most of the time and showed off his rock hard bare chest when

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Postcards from the Edge

  I just watched Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine bicker back and forth mother and daughter style in Postcards from the edge, and then I turned on Jerry Springer and saw the white trash

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H.O.T.S.

“Now, no more shenanigans!” Could this movie really exist? There certainly could never have actually been a day that you could see it and its legendary strip football finale at a legitimate movie theater.

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Adam’s Rib

“You great big he men make me sick.” Sex Wars mid-century style. Adam’s Rib can’t help but look a bit dated, but it sure is a perfect encapsulation of a certain type of couple

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The Philadelphia Story

 “The time to make up your mind about people is never.” This was the movie that saved Katherine Hepburn’s career. Essentially I’m pretty sure she got blackballed a bit by the industry for being too

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His Girl Friday

“He looks like that fella in the movies, Ralph Bellamy:” It’s a drag to be Ralph Bellamy. Sure you get to be in movies, you’re sort of a movie star, but you’re only there

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Eddie and the Cruisers

 Eddie Wilson: I want something great, I want something that nobody’s ever done before. Sal Amato: Why? We ain’t great, we’re just some guys from Jersey. Eddie Wilson: If we can’t be great, then

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