Tagged: cars

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2010s / Action / Thriller

The Fate of the Furious (2017)

As the Fast and Furious movies have continued, they’ve gotten progressively bigger, better in some cases, but also a whole lot sillier as well.  The Fate of the Furious, the eighth film in the lucrative franchise, is perhaps...

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2010s / Action / Thriller

Furious 7 (2015)

The gang is back for, the poster says, “one last ride.”  If this is the last film for the main core players of the franchise (don’t bet on it; promotional interviews already are talking...

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2000s / Action / Science Fiction

Transformers (2007)

Hasbro’s action figures are dusted off for one more go around for a feature film, with the last effort coming in the animated Transformers: The Movie in 1986, which has gone on to become something of...

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1980s / Documentary

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

Koyaanisqatsi is a movie without words, without characters, and without plot — but it does tell a story.  Essentially, it tells the story of us.  By “us,” I mean of human beings as we...

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1970s / Action / Comedy

Grand Theft Auto (1977)

Grand Theft Auto (not to be confused with the mega-popular videogame) is a quintessential 70s car film, full of non-stop chases, explosive pile-ups, and constant defiance of the law.  Perhaps more significant as the...

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1980s / Action / Comedy / Sports

The Cannonball Run (1981)

The race from Darien, Connecticut, to Redondo Beach, California, is called the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, named after daredevil driver Erwin “Cannonball” Baker in the early 20th century. This outlaw race stretched nearly 2,900 miles across the country. The record run was 32 hours and 51 minutes, averaging an insane 87 miles an hour. It started in 1971, when Brock Yates and Formula One star Dan Gurney won the very first one. In all, only five of these races were ever run. Across those years, drivers racked up more than a hundred speeding tickets, but remarkably, there were no accidents involving innocent bystanders. The entries were as wild as the concept: in 1971, the Polish Racing Drivers of America showed up with a van carrying 300 gallons of fuel so they could drive nonstop—though one mistake could have turned them into a rolling fireball. You...