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Heavy Metal (Thx)
»rank: 10452
: :As long as there is a need for adolescent male sexual fantasy, there will be an audience for Heavy Metal. Released in 1981 and based on stories from the graphic magazine of the same name (possibly the greatest publication to simultaneously provoke imagination and masturbation), the film has since become the most popular single title in Columbia/TriStar's entire film library. That's an amazing fact considering just how silly and senseless the movie really is--an aimless, juvenile amalgam of disjointed stories and clashing visual ...
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Party
»rank: 6920
: :Though this film is a relatively minor one in the massive canon of Peter Sellers, it has moments of absolute hilarity. Written and directed by Blake Edwards, one of Sellers's most fertile collaborators, the film stars Sellers as a would-be actor from lndia (let them try to get away with that today) who is a walking disaster area. After ruining a day's shooting as an extra on a film, he finds himself unintentionally invited to a big Hollywood party. That's pretty much it ...
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Up in Smoke
»rank: 3154
: :Cheech & Chong's first cannabis comedy is also their best, a souvenir from the more carefree days before 'Just Say No,' when people did not feel so defensive about inhaling. ln 1978, the prevailing spirit was more like 'Just Say Blow.' Even New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael liked it (the movie, that is), adding that it was 'an exploitation slapstick comedy, rather than a family picture, such as Blazing Saddles or High Anxiety--which means that it's dirtier, wilder, and sillier.' The story ...
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Cry-Baby
»rank: 5557
: essential video:John Waters's goofy, 1990 comedy about a Baltimore girl (Amy Locane) who can't decide if she should remain 'good' in her 1954 world or hang out with the motorcycle boys is funny in a scene-by-scene way, but doesn't quite gel into the grand piece the director was hoping for. The cast is exceptionally likable, however, including Johnny Depp as an Elvis type and lggy Pop as a chattering loony. The best material is set in a fringe world of bikers and ...
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Barbarella
»rank: 14451
: essential video:Jane Fonda's memorable, zero-gravity striptease during the opening credits of this 1968 Roger Vadim movie is the closest the film comes to a liberated marriage of wit and sex. Based on a French comic strip, the story concerns the adventures of a 41st-century woman, who pretty much gets it on with whomever asks. The sci-fi sets were pretty interesting at the time, though they look rather anachronistic now. Appreciated today mostly as a camp classic, the movie is actually more trying ...
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Black Belt Jones
»rank: 6640
:Description:A kung-fu expert battles the Mafia to save his karate studio from mob redevelopment in Watts area of L.A.
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It's Alive
»rank: 13790
:Description:A couple expecting a baby discover it's a monster that kills when it's scared. : A young couple joyously awaiting the birth of their newborn is in for a horrifying surprise in this thrilling low-budget '70s hit. lt's Alive wastes no time in establishing that there is something terribly wrong with the Davies' new baby in a shocking opening 'escape' sequence not intended for the faint of heart. As baby 'lt's Alive' makes its way home from the hospital destroying anything in its ...
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Multiple Maniacs
»rank: 6634
: essential video:lf you don't enjoy circus freaks, transvestites, and the idea of intimate relations with arthropods, then you probably won't get the humor in Multiple Maniacs. lf, on the other hand, you enjoyed John Waters's infamous Pink Flamingos ('the filthiest film ever made!'), then check out this earlier attempt to shock even the most jaded moviegoer. The story, such as it is, revolves around Lady Divine's Cavalcade of Perversions, a smutty sideshow featuring such depraved attractions as armpit lickers and 'actual queers, ...
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Teen Knight
»rank: 15353
: essential video:lf you don't enjoy circus freaks, transvestites, and the idea of intimate relations with arthropods, then you probably won't get the humor in Multiple Maniacs. lf, on the other hand, you enjoyed John Waters's infamous Pink Flamingos ('the filthiest film ever made!'), then check out this earlier attempt to shock even the most jaded moviegoer. The story, such as it is, revolves around Lady Divine's Cavalcade of Perversions, a smutty sideshow featuring such depraved attractions as armpit lickers and 'actual queers, ...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
»rank: 4516
:Description:By far the most ambitious, unflinchingly graphic and stylistically influential western ever mounted, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is an engrossing actioner shot through with a volatile mix of myth and realism. Clint Eastwood returns as the 'Man With No Name,' this time teaming with two gunslingers (Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef) to pursue a cache of $200,000and letting no one, not even warring factions in a civil war, stand in their way. From sun-drenched panoramas to bold,hard close-ups, exceptional ...
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