Terry Gilliam is one of my favorite directors. He has an odd sense of the world and his movies tend to be outré. His works include Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and The Zero Theorem, all of…
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With the success of Bohemian Rhapsody, audiences have once again discovered the magic of the rock biopic. But you may not have realized that there is a motion picture that chronicles the early days of the greatest musical act of…
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Yeah, for this poll I’m gonna need you to go ahead and pick your favorite character from Mike Judge‘s 1999 workplace cult comedy Office Space. Although, if you feel like you have a case of the Mondays, you can wait…
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“It isn’t easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache.” – Dr. Frank N. Furter (a scientist). Originally released in 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has had about as strange of a trajectory as any film…
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First a low-budget film, then an off-broadway musical, followed by a 1986 big-screen adaptation of that musical, Little Shop of Horrors has had a trajectory unlike another project in showbiz history. And the story of a well-meaning nerd who tries…
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Originally released in 1982, writer/director Frank Henenlotter‘s Basket Case is one of the cheesiest, sleaziest, and, above all, most entertaining movies of the Reagan era. Filmed on an incredibly low budget (Trivia: the wad of cash that the lead character…
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You can’t manufacture a cult film, it has to happen organically. Some movies are so weird, bad or generally psychotronic that they struggle to find an audience upon their initial release…and only do so years after the fact. The greatest…
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When it was released in June of 1981, Clash of the Titans was a box office success that was the year’s 11th highest grossing film thanks to its take of $41,000,000. The movie presents the story of the Greek myth…
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“I found out long ago, it’s a long day the holiday road…” Although it feels like the Griswold family has always been with us, it was 35 years ago today we were introduced to the comedic clan when National Lampoon’s…
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With San Diego Comic Con and our very own Summer of Sci-Fi posts rolling on this weekend, we thought we’d present another edition of The Movie Tagline Game. This time around we have selected a number of science fiction/genre films…
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