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Josie and the Pussycats 2001
A vastly underrated early-aughts gem that should have been a massive, massive hit but has gladly found a comfortable cult niche.
Start with the villains: Parker Posey and Alan Cummings, fer chrissakes. If that *alone* doesn't sell you, then I can't help you.
Second: the music is, quite literally, one of the best pop records of the aughts, and easily the best original movie musical. The songs are written, produced and performed by power-pop royalty. The smart grrl-power lyrics and…
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Tron 1982
"FIVE stars? What is he THINKING?"
When TRON came out in 1982, I was twelve and saw it three times opening day, in between bouts of dropping quarters into the TRON game at the nearby arcade.
Even though I'd been inducted into my love of sci-fi film by the likes of Lucas and Roddenberry and Kubrick, it was actually Lisberger and Bridges and Boxleitner who conjured up for me a new world that, for the first time, really felt like…
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