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Beavis And Butthead Do America

Beavis And Butthead Do America Nothing epitomized 1990s pop culture back in that decade any moreso than Beavis And Butthead, the two heavy metal loving teenage idiots created by animator Mike Judge partly as a response to the rancid atmosphere of political correctness as imposed by the Bill Clinton Regime, taking on the system not […]

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Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice The known abject lack of quality in modern day family entertainment can be chalked up to a couple of definite things, one being the complete lack of sophistication in most of these works, and the other being the failure to include (even subversively) some winks and nods for adult viewers to enjoy what they’re […]

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Being John Malkovich

Being John Malkovich “Hypnotic” and “Spellbinding” are words that are rarely used to accurately describe a movie in the comedy genre, but that can be the risk one runs by coming up with a concept that is so original, so bizarre, that when that concept finally sees the light of production and release as this […]

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Believers

Believers Horror movies that specialize in the subjects of voodoo and occult worship are usually quite the mixed bag. For every success like Bela Lugosi’s White Zombie or Wes Craven’s Serpent And The Rainbow, there are scores of less successful or less noteworthy entries that more often than not invoke audiences into laughter rather than […]

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Better Off Dead

Better Off Dead With a style that combines the anything goes comic madness of the ZAZ boys with the absurdist surrealism of Luis Bunuel, then mixed together in its own unique 80s blender, this cult classic is certainly one of the strangest achievements of its era.  John Cusack (in a role he later disowned) stars […]

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Beverly Hills Cop

Beverly Hills Cop Racism in all its ugly glory is most likely something that will never be completely erased in this world, but a certain segment of comedians and comedy filmmakers (both black and white) at least at one time were making a concerted, successful effort in disarming the use of racial epitaphs and stereotypes […]

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Beverly Hills Cop 2

Beverly Hills Cop 2 The original Beverly Hills Cop in 1984 was both another notch in Eddie Murphy’s nearly unblemished streak of hit comedies in the 1980s as well as being a raw, edgy, daring, groundbreaking action comedy in its own right, redefining the standards for an unconventional action hero who also happens to be […]

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Big

Big Essentially the only true Masterpiece in the rather checkered career of director Penny Marshall, the film is boosted tremendously by a great heartfelt script and a dynamic performance by Tom Hanks as boy turned grown man Josh Baskin. Marshall appears to have no clue whatsoever how a 12-year old boy is supposed to act […]

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Big Lebowski

Big Lebowski What is it that makes a true cult movie?  Perhaps it’s a film that bombs at the box office but manages to find a following afterwards on home video?  Or maybe a low budget movie that comes out of nowhere and becomes a huge success??  Or maybe the purest definition is one where […]

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Big Trouble In Little China

Big Trouble In Little China It’s amazing how almost 40 years after their initial release, so many films of the 1980s have managed to hold up incredibly well despite what many feel were obvious drawbacks in special effects and other production values. Perhaps no director of the era was more adept at so called “timeless” […]