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When a movie is about Corvettes and summer, what could possibly go wrong? The 1978 Metro Goldwyn Mayer flick Corvette Summer sure shows the possibilities of how such a seemly perfect mash-up could turn into an unmitigated cluster you-know-what. This was Mark Hamill’s follow up film to the blockbuster Star Wars and proves that (A) there’s…

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You ever notice how in a lot of car movies the actual cars and racing are relegated to being background plot points? Bobby Deerfield, which we recently discussed, is a fine example. That’s not always the case, as there have been movies like LeMans, Grand Prix, and Rush that put the racing and the cars…

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There is perhaps no more iconic ’80s movie than the raucous and preposterous Patrick Swayze flick Road House. It’s filled with tropes that define the era: the clothes, the hair, the swagger, and of interest to us, the cars. The plot isn’t all that important as it’s mostly just an excuse to show off the…

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Imagine if you took a four-time Best Actor Oscar nominee, an Oscar nominated director, and a writer who would later go on to win two Oscars, and give them a story about an acerbic but conflicted Formula One driver based on a novel by the writer of All Quiet on the Western Front; you’d have a winner, right?…

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The Avant Garde movement in French Cinema during the ’50s and ’60s sought to elevate film making to the same high level of artistic endeavor as painting or the novel. Auteurs such as Truffaut, Rohmer, and Godard all worked within this concept where the director is the ‘author’ of the piece and imbues the work with…

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Imagine if you were to take The Road Warrior, transfer it to the U.S., crank up the spandex and bromance to eleven, and then add about gajillion more explosions. What you’d most likely come up with is something like 1982’s Megaforce. No, that’s not in fact an imaginary vengeance plan of Peter Griffin’s daughter, but…

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Last week I noted that Herbie the Love Bug – star of the Love Bug movies was in fact like a G-rated version of Stephen King’s car-from-hell classic, Christine. It seemed natural then to follow up this week with the film adaptation of King’s 1983 novel, the John Carpenter-directed Christine which was released the very…

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What’s the most famous VW Type 1 in the world? Yep, that’s right it’s old number 53, Herbie the Love Bug. Disney’s 1968 film adaptation of the short story Car, Boy, Girl by Gordon Buford introduced the world to the little car that could. The story concerns a possessed Beetle that is magically able to run…

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Today’s movie trailer is not a car movie, nor for that matter a movie in which cars feature at all, other than some cool Jeeps and sedans decked out in military garb. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t watch it, however. Twelve O’Clock High is one of best movies about the effects of war – both…

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Do you like campy horror*slash*comedies? Do you like low budgets, stilted acting, and ridiculous premises? If all of those things spin your tach then you will most likely find 2007’s Blood Car to still be one weird-ass movie. Set in the near future when gasoline is over thirty dollars a gallon and everyone seems to be…

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