Tag Archives: 1980s

The Greatest Movie You’ve Maybe Never Heard Of…

When you think of a perfect film what comes to mind?

Citizen Kane, perhaps? Hitchcock’s Vertigo? The Godfather? The Rules of the Game? Chinatown? Some other auteur-helmed flick listed in Sight & Sound magazine’s once-a-decade “Greatest Films of All Time” list?

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B-Movie Cult Classics Unearthed Watching Late-Night HBO in College (Pt. 8)

That strange buzz in your ear, the one that’s been driving you nuts since July 24? It’s not a wax buildup. Nor is it a fly stuck in your auditory canal. Rather, it’s the CFS’s adoring public, all 13 of them, clamoring for a new post.

So, without further ado, let’s dig into four more films watched and appreciated on the small screen via pirated HBO whilst* (*Anglophilia) under the influence of 3.2% beer back in the late 1980s. Do they hold up in the cold, sober light of day?

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