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Donnie Darko

By GroovyMovieGuy on May 29, 2009

It’s a pretty bizarre flick when the most stable character is a six-foot-tall freaky rabbit that puts criminal thoughts into the head of a teenager. The story follows a strange series of events in the life of Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), a psychologically distressed boy dealing with authority issues at home and at school, love, [...]

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Detour

By movieMoll on March 27, 2009

Never pick up hitchhikers. Al Roberts (Tom Neal) learns this lesson the hard way. Waving his thumb, Al hits the road from New York to California to reunite with his girlfriend. He thinks he’s in the home stretch when he gets picked up by a guy named Charles Haskell (Edmund MacDonald) who says he’s going [...]

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Detour

By GroovyMovieGuy on March 27, 2009

Dark, gritty, noir. That’s all the good things I can say about this movie.
For some reason “Detour” has developed a cult following. Beats me why.
Everyone makes mistakes — and sometimes they are big ones — but most of us stop at some point. Our leading man makes mistakes, big mistakes, and keeps piling more on. [...]

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

By movieMoll on March 26, 2009

Of course the best way to see this late-night movie palace mainstay from the 1970s is in a theater crowded with costumed fans throwing rice and shouting retorts to the on-screen dialogue. (Example: “We meet at last,” says Frank. “No, we meet at first,” says the audience). However, the cult classic still holds up well [...]

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

By GroovyMovieGuy on March 26, 2009

How’d you do I — see you met my — faithful — handyman.
You know right away this handyman isn’t like the handyman James Taylor sang about in the ’70s. You also should realize this horror movie isn’t going to be like all the others since Tim Curry (as the outrageous Dr. Frankenfurter) is singing these [...]

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