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Coming to America

“The royal penis is clean your highness.” This movie’s legacy has been filled with so much controversy that somewhere along the way the film’s magnificent heart and hilarious charm have been almost forgotten and

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Higher Learning

  “I thought you were one of the smart ones but you ain’t so you have to go.” Remember back in the day when it felt like every black made movie had to have

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CB4

The first time I heard Sweat From My Balls . . .”           If there was any universal lesson about pop culture and the twentieth century, I suppose it should have been to never

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Help!

“Hey Be-at-tle!” Help! is one of those movies that can go either way on you. If after about twenty or so minutes you aren’t impressed with its almost divine silliness, you should go ahead

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The Producers

“Let’s assume for a moment that you are a dishonest man.” Maybe the most warped movie of all time. Madness incarnate. The Producers brings up to me a wonderfully philosophical question. Should we remember

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Airplane!

How do you evaluate a satire of a trend that has disappeared from consciousness. There were a ton of really bad Airport movies in the ‘70s. I chalk it up to something in the

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The Princess Bride

Inigo: Who are you? Man in black: No one of consequence. Inigo: I must know. Man in black: Get used to disappointment. Spinal Tap play dungeons and dragons. When Christopher Guest and Rob Reiner

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Strange Brew

“There’s probably beer here somewhere.” Released to mass hysteria, 1983’s Strange Brew symbolically let go thousands of moths in movie theaters all across the world, jarring loose the stagnating concussion of the modern cinematic

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Beavis and Butthead Do America

I remember how controversial the whole Bart Simpson ‘Proud to be an underachiever’ thing was, and then all of sudden there was Beavis and Butthead and no one ever mentioned it again. Bart Simpson

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Clerks

“I’m not even supposed to be here today!” Kevin Smith actually pulled it off. Clerks for me was kind of like the Beatles on Ed Sullivan were for so many nascent Rock stars. You’re

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