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How to create a great cult movie from a ridiculous idea, The Car, 1977

Sometimes miracles happen in cinema. Incredibly stupid ideas give birth to formidably entertaining films. How this happens is a mystery, but it's probably due to a combo of a great cast, a good director and a smart script that keeps the pacing devilishly (!) fast and doesn't have the luxury of questioning the credibility of the horrible underlying idea of the whole story. How Universal Pictures greenlit a project like The Car is an enigma, but one imagines what the pitch meeting must have been l

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How to create a great cult movie from a ridiculous idea, The Car, 1977

Adventureland: An Overrated Comedy

I think this film was overrated at the time. I had read about Adventureland as an underrated film, and the truth is, now I understand why it's actually an exercise in nostalgia for many viewers at the time or currently. Because in addition to transporting you back to the 80s, a very beautiful time for me (or so it seems from the costumes and music), it perfectly captures complex themes that many of us have experienced during our adolescence and entering into adulthood. Here's a little explanatio

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It’s Complicated and the Beautiful Mess of Getting Back With an Ex

When I decided to write about It’s Complicated (2009), I knew exactly why. I needed to defend it. It’s not just a great movie — it’s one of the best comedy films ever made. And yet, somehow, it has only 58% on Rotten Tomatoes. That’s ridiculous. This movie is intelligent, hilarious, relatable, and even profound. I laughed my ass off watching it. I still can’t believe how good it is, and that’s exactly why I’m writing this article — because it deserves to be in the top five, maybe top three, of a

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It’s Complicated and the Beautiful Mess of Getting Back With an Ex

A film ahead of its time...

In Spain, during the late 1970s and the 1980s, surged a renaissance of filmmaking. Gone were the limitations that Nationalist Dictator, “General Francisco Franco”, who had recently passed away. Some of these movies were genius. 1980's “And In The Third Year, He Rose Again”, directed by Rafael Gil, poked fun at a hypothetical scenario, “what would happen if it turned out, Franco is still alive?” Others, such as “Supersonic Man”, were merely mockbusters of more famous movies. But today, I'm going

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How to create a great cult movie from a ridiculous idea, The Car, 1977

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