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Dystopian Sci-Fi Makes for Good Cult Classics

Posted in Examiner.com, Film, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Originally published at Examiner.com on January 3, 2010. Since it’s the beginning of a new year and decade, films about the future come to mind when thinking of cult classics. In particular, there seems to be a trend of dystopia (the opposite of perfect utopia) in these sci-fi, futuristic cult films. Perhaps they are only [...]

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Weirding Up the Romance: Cult Classics for V-Day

Posted in Examiner.com, Film, Open Salon, tagged , , , , , , , on February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Originally posted on Examiner.com and my Open Salon blog. Why watch the upcoming Valentine’s Day with an overload of trite story lines and actors when you can watch these strange cult films instead? Yes, cult classics can tell stories of romance and sex…Just don’t expect it to be mainstream love. Some of the best romantic [...]

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My Netflix Recommendations: ‘The Room’

Posted in Film, Rants, tagged , , , on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This is too good not to post: Because I enjoyed Punch-Drunk Love and The Wrestler? Seriously, Netflix? And yes, I did enjoy it very much, thank you…But not in the way that I enjoyed the other two “related” films. I would share this on my Cult Classics Examiner page if it weren’t for the utter [...]

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The ‘Twilight’ Movies: Cult Classic Status?

Posted in Examiner.com, Film, tagged , on December 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article was written on my Chicago Cult Classics Examiner page a few days before the release of Twilight: New Moon. This is not meant to belittle the Twilight series, but rather, it’s an observation based on the fact that the saga has often been referred to as a “cult classic” in [...]

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