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Airplane!
If you’ve never given Airplane! a fair shot, 1980 is as good a year as any to fix that — Jim Abrahams’s film has aged into something like a cult favorite. “What’s slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound?” That’s the line the studio chose to sell…
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The Blues Brothers
Every so often a comedy film comes along that refuses to be filed away neatly, and The Blues Brothers is exactly that kind of stubborn, memorable outlier. You can tell a lot about a movie from its tagline, and “They’ll never get caught. They’re on a mission from God.” gives away the game in the…
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Some Like It Hot
There is a reason “Some Like It Hot” keeps coming up in conversations about comedy and crime and romance filmmaking since its 1959 release. That reputation, as it turns out, is well earned. “The movie too HOT for words!.” That is the tagline, and it does a surprisingly honest job of setting the tone before…