From the director of 48 Hours and the cult classic film The Warriors, comes a movie you’ve probably never seen, but inspired stuff you probably have! It’s Streets of Fire! Michael Pare stars as Tom Cody, the toughest, cheapest Sylvester Stallone impersonator badass in town who, along with new allies, must rescue his ex-girlfriend Ellen Aim from the clutches of gang leader Raven Shaddock.

It’s Final Fight before Final Fight. It’s got Cyberpunk’s Rockerboys before Rockerboys, and it released a week before Ghostbusters and Gremlins.

Of course it was gonna flop!

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Grab your barf bag and prepare to look away for this egg-citing new episode where we’ll be tackling the iconic John Waters hit “Pink Flamingos!” Drag queen Divine stars as a criminal under the name Babs Johnson, who, along with her freak family, must contend with the schemes of Connie and Raymond Marble, two perverts who seek to claim Divine’s title of “Filthiest Person Alive” for themselves.

Registered to the National Archives in 2021, then-U.S. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden deemed this film significant enough to add to our National Film Registry.

If she could find merit in a whistling prolapsed anus, surely we must be able to!

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*THIS WAS RECORDED AS OUR 10th EPISODE. OUR RECORDING OF TOKYO GODFATHERS WAS LOST AND WILL BE THE NEW EPISODE 10*

If you thought the aliens from “Signs” were scary, wait till you see M. Night Shyamalan’s next big cinematic threat: Pennsylvanian settlers! It’s “The Village!” When death and illness begin to plague a 19th-century community, young Lucius begins to question and rebel against the village’s strict rules to never leave their walls. However, when the vicious creatures that live in the surrounding forest begin to threaten the villagers, Lucius and his love interest, Ivy, fall down a rabbit hole of the community’s mysteries.

It’s like Attack on Titan with less giant killing and more pigmen!

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Gag me with a spoon and let's get totally tubular, lads, we’re travelling back to 1980s Ireland in “Sing Street!” In this coming-of-age tale a boy named Conor is transferred to Synge Street CBS, a school that seems to double as a penitentiary, where he is relentlessly bullied by everyone. Finding his muse in the local girl Raphina, Conor lies that he has a band in order to impress her. Now Conor must assemble a group of nerds and outcasts and enlist the help of his music-inclined, slacker older brother to make some jams, get the girl, and find himself. Something he does… actually quite easily. At least the music part.

For real, this kid couldn’t carry a tune to save his life in one scene, and the next he’s singing like Adam Levine.

Wait… Adam Levine’s on this soundtrack??

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Get out your camcorder and put on your Peachfuzz mask, cause we’re talking about 2014’s “Creep!” Directed by and starring Patrick Brice, this found footage thriller follows Aaron, a very stupid man, who accepts a thousand dollars from Josef, a very *creepy* man, to film a day in Josef's life for his unborn child before he dies. Ignoring the red flags through his camcorder’s screen, Aaron must find a way to maneuver Josef's weirdness in between the jump scares they needed to remind you it’s a scary movie! Take those away, and it's basically just a strange white man guiding a hapless guy around with the promise of cash.

If I wanted to watch that, I’d just watch Mr. Beast!

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Turn that frown upside down, or the TraumaMan will get you! It’s Parker Finn’s “Smile!” Based on Finn’s short film “Laura Hasn’t Slept,” “Smile” follows in the footsteps of modern boogeyman curse films like “The Babadook” and “It Follows” with a somehow even more passive evil entity. Sosie Bacon stars as Rose, a woman plagued by an incessant force that just stands there. Happily! Rose must uncover the source of her curse and remove it before her own demons consume her.

If the sequel isn’t called “Smile Wide,” I’m going to Smile myself!

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While most cabin in the woods movies involve a final girl, a spooky slasher villain, and plenty of jump scares to go around, The Man From Earth boldly chooses to consist mostly of people talking in a living room for an hour and a half. Directed by Richard Schenkman from a screenplay by Jerome Bixby, this high-concept character drama follows a man revealing a long-held secret to his colleagues. Will they believe him or shun him for fear of reckoning with their own beliefs?

Hey, can we get some lights on in here? I can barely see how many more Fiji water boxes we need to move to the pickup truck!

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A Catholic caper of ciphers, car chases, and creepy crypts? No, it’s not that Easter barbecue we don’t talk about; it must be Ron Howard’s 2006 film “The Da Vinci Code.” Based on the early 2000s phenomenon by Dan Brown, Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou lead a thrilling mystery involving the Louvre, Da Vinci’s greatest works, and a convoluted secret from an underground society. Hanks stars as Robert Langdon, a symbology professor pulled into a world of codes and puzzles only he can solve to help clear his name and find answers for police cryptographer Sophie. Will Robert, Sophie, and Robert’s haircut be able to solve the Renaissance riddles while evading the nefarious Doctor Octopus and his albino monk assassin? Let’s crack open this cryptex and find out!  

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