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Cry Baby – John Waters & Secret Suburbia Subversion

Cry Baby – John Waters & Secret Suburbia Subversion

John Waters, that loveable scamp and master of camp, brings his own twist and shout to the 50s greaser meets preppy girl who wants to be bad meets musical doo-wop gore. Can true love succeed? Is it weird to drink

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Strange Days – The Virtue of Dwelling on Violence

Strange Days – The Virtue of Dwelling on Violence

A psycho-action tech noir thriller about a device that can record one’s experiences and feelings, a dream hustler and the killer in need of an audience, and an end of the millennium party primed to blow out into a full

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Spirited Away – Disarming Consumerism through Detail and Patience

Spirited Away – Disarming Consumerism through Detail and Patience

‘The Problem’ with Popcorn Roulette is that when I ask guests to come on the show, they tend to recommend one of their favorite movies. And if my guest loves a movie, I probably think that movie is great too. Which

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Birdman – The Need to Feel Beloved On This Earth

Birdman – The Need to Feel Beloved On This Earth

Michael Keaton is a type-cast actor who’s desperate to be taken seriously. Edward Norton is a method actor who’s notorious for demanding too much from those around him. I mean, that’s who they are in real life. They also play

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Drive – Can You Outrun Your Nature

Drive – Can You Outrun Your Nature

Refn’s Drive is a master course in how to layer a movie. It’s a frame perfect examination of a modern day Shane who’s been wrong so long, he can’t stop from doing more wrong, for all the right reasons. But

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Mad Max: Fury Road – What Do You Cling To When There’s Nothing Out There?

Mad Max: Fury Road – What Do You Cling To When There’s Nothing Out There?

When I first watched Mad Max: Fury Road, I was afraid there would only be one action scene… because the action would never stop. I needn’t have worried. Mastermind George Miller knows how to flood a flick with a glut

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Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World: Humor So Wet, You Could Build an Aquarium

Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World: Humor So Wet, You Could Build an Aquarium

Here’s how far off the rails the Mad, Mad train is driven: Larry, Moe, and Curly of the Three Stooges are marched in, dressed as firefighters, and theirs is the most sedate scene in the movie. If you were alive

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The Hunger: We All Own an Attic/Crypt of Past Lovers, Right?

The Hunger: We All Own an Attic/Crypt of Past Lovers, Right?

Tony Scott’s directorial debut must have coincided with a buy-one-get-two-free curtain sale. This melodrama is sensuous, moody, and broiling while steeped in an early 80s post-punk, pre-pop goth aesthetic. But Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon resurrect such excellent

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Ready to Rumble – The WCW Harbinger of Doom

Ready to Rumble – The WCW Harbinger of Doom

During the Attitude Era, two major wrestling federations declared war on each other in a desperate bid for relevancy and ratings. Amid this chaotic struggle of one-upsmanship, a terd of a movie was born. Ready to Rumble was bad. So

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Network – Things Have to Change. But First, You Gotta Get Mad!

Network – Things Have to Change. But First, You Gotta Get Mad!

Received in 1976 as a parody of network news, Chayevsky’s pessimistic morality play, about reality television and how the news could be big entertainment, proved prophetic. It’s a story about Howard Beale, a man who raged about his individuality, and

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