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HELP!

By | December 2000

FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO SILLY MOVIES! The Beatles as a group are still pretty charming and biting, but it’s not too hard to figure out that they made this movie right after Bob Dylan introduced them to marijuana…

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HELP!

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Tim referring to what turns out to be a rabbit: "Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valor, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature...

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I remember how controversial the whole Bart Simpson "Proud to be an underachiever" thing was, and then all of sudden there was "Beavis and Butt-head" and...

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I'm a little obsessed with this movie. It may, in fact, be everything you need to know about the '80s. Essentially, this is "The Breakfast Club Grow Up"...

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Cameron Crowe ("Say Anything") and Amy Heckerling ("Clueless") would both go on to make better movies about the teen experience, but this old war horse is...

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"Better Off Dead" is the kind of movie that people won't really fess up to liking, but I've rarely met anyone who didn't secretly love it passionately....

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It's probably a little hard to take Emilio Estevez seriously as a disaffected punk turned car re-possessor after three "Mighty Ducks" movies and that crazy...

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STORY OF RIKI (LAI WONG)

[ What's it about? ] ^ What isn't it about? According to the opening graphics, in the year 2000, the prison system will be privatized and run by evil...

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