The A.V. Club
Even more obsessive pop culture coverage available at avclub.com. Posts are from David, or others as noted.
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Terrence Malick works his way into the New Cult Canon by reshaping an American origin story to fit his style in The New World.
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The People Under The Stairs makes its way into The New Cult Canon by going for horror-satire and ending up as Home Alone in reverse.
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Scott Tobias invites The Lonely Island’s flop film Hot Rod to join the New Cult Canon.
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Would you like to see Nicolas Cage yell the alphabet? It can only make your day better. Then you should check out today’s New Cult Canon. As Scott Tobias said, if these clips don’t sell you on Vampire’s Kiss, nothing will.
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Today we welcome Observe And Report to The New Cult Canon.
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Alright you little freshmen bitches, Dazed And Confused is now part of The New Cult Canon.
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It does not need to be sought out; it’s on cable television, probably right now or perhaps later on tonight. Nothing will keep the world’s most passive, glazed-over channel-flipper from getting the chance to see Anaconda. Yet it appears in New Cult Canon for two related reasons: It has the power to freeze even the twitchiest of thumbs, much as the film’s 40-foot-long jungle snake coils around its victims before devouring them whole. And the source of that power, beyond the mesmerizingly terrible CGI effects, is Jon Voight, whose performance as a Paraguayan snake hunter named Paul Sarone is bigger and more deadly than any predator known to man.
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Our own Scott Tobias interviewing David Wain before a sold-out screening of Wet Hot American Summer. Sad fact: WHAS made more money from our two showings last night than it did during its opening weekend.
