Shut Up And Drive!
Do you like movies about fast cars? Do you know what GTO stands for? Is Kowalski your secret screen name? Is Steve McQueen your desktop wallpaper? Do you remember a time before The Fast and The Furious defined a genre? You've come to the right place. Muscle cars. Burning rubber. Distant, moody loners with rear-wheel drive, Thrush mufflers, the smell of leaded gasoline and more horsepower under the hood than the law allows. Strap in and we'll put the pedal to the metal. Let's ride!
Posts for this club should be tagged: ShutUpAndDrive!_club.
June 17
Movie: Thelma & Louise
An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take off in a '66 Thunderbird. [more inside]
June 15
Next Feature Screening - Thelma & Louise
Friday, June 17 @ 9:00 pm EST. Click here to watch.
June 13
Movie: The Seven-Ups
A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money. [more inside]
June 12
Next Feature Screening - The Seven-Ups
Monday, June 13 @ 9:00 pm EST.
June 9
Movie: Grand Theft Auto
A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her. [more inside]
Next Feature Screening - Grand Theft Auto
Friday, June 10 @ 9:00 pm EST - Click Here To Watch.
June 6
Movie: Death Race 2000
In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality. [more inside]
June 5
Next Feature Screening - Deathrace 2000
Monday, June 6 @ 9:00 pm EST - Click Here To Watch.
June 3
Movie: Convoy
Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff...Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall. [more inside]
June 2
Next Feature Screening - Convoy
Friday, June 3 @ 9:00 pm EST - Click Here To Watch.
May 30
Movie: Race with the Devil
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual. [more inside]
May 28
Next Feature Screening - Race With The Devil
Monday, May 30 @ 9:00 pm EST - Click Here To Watch
May 27
Movie: White Line Fever
Returning from a stint in the Air Force, Carrol Jo Hummer borrows money to buy a truck, hoping to make enough money hauling produce to marry Jerri Kane and set up housekeeping. [more inside]
May 25
Next Feature Screening - White Line Fever
Friday, May 27 @ 9:00 pm EST - Click Here To Watch
May 23
Movie: The Blues Brothers
Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised. [more inside]
May 21
Next Feature Screening - The Blues Brothers
Monday, May 23 @ 9:00 pm EST - Click Here To Watch [more inside]
May 20
Movie: Gone in 60 Seconds
Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford... [more inside]
May 18
Next Feature Screening - Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
Friday, May 20 @ 9:00 pm EST - Click Here To Watch
May 9
Movie: To Live and Die in L.A.
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner. [more inside]
May 6
Movie: The French Connection
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection. [more inside]
May 2
Movie: Bullitt
An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. [more inside]
May 1
Next Feature Screening - Bullitt
Monday, May 2 @ 9:00 pm EST - Click Here To Watch
April 29
Movie: Drive
A mysterious Hollywood stuntman and mechanic moonlights as a getaway driver and finds himself trouble when he helps out his neighbor. [more inside]
April 28
Next Feature Screening - Drive
Friday, April 29 @ 9:00 pm EST - Click Here To Watch
April 25
Movie: Ronin
A freelancing former US intelligence agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by both the Irish and the Russians. [more inside]
April 23
Next Feature Screening - Ronin
Monday, April 25 @ 9:00 pm EST - Click Here To Watch
April 22
Movie: Smokey and the Bandit
The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff. [more inside]
April 20
Next Feature Screening - Smokey and The Bandit
Friday, April 22 @ 9:00 pm - Click Here To Watch
April 18
Movie: The Driver
The Driver is a specialist in a rare business: he drives getaway cars in robberies. [more inside]
April 17
Next Feature Screening - The Driver
Monday, April 18 @ 9:00 pm ET - Click Here to Watch
April 15
Movie: Duel
A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer. [more inside]
April 14
Next Feature Screening - Duel
Friday, April 15 @ 9:00 pm ET - Click Here to Watch
April 11
Movie: Thunder Road
A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. He has to battle big-city gangsters who are trying to take over the business and the police who are trying to put him in prison. [more inside]
April 10
Next Feature Screening - Thunder Road
Monday, April 11 @ 9:00 pm ET - Click Here to Watch
April 8
Movie: The Cannonball Run
A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country road race. However, the eccentric entrants will do anything to win the road race, including low-down, dirty tricks. [more inside]
April 5
Next Feature Screening - The Cannonball Run
Friday, April 8 @ 9:00 pm ET - Click Here to Watch
April 4
Movie: Death Proof
Two separate sets of voluptuous women are stalked at different times by a scarred stuntman who uses his "death proof" cars to execute his murderous plans. [more inside]
April 2
Next Feature Screening - Deathproof
Monday, April 4 @ 9:00 pm ET - Click Here to Watch
April 1
Movie: Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Larry Rayder is an aspiring NASCAR driver, Deke Sommers is mechanic. As they feel they collectively are the best, the only thing that is holding them back is money to build the best vehicle... [more inside]
March 29
Next Feature Screening - Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Friday, April 1 @ 9:00 pm ET - Click Here to Watch
March 28
Movie: Vanishing Point
During the 1970s, car delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time but always runs into trouble with the highway cops. [more inside]
March 26
Next Feature Screening - Vanishing Point
Monday, March 28 @ 9:00 pm ET - Click Here to Watch
March 25
Two-Lane Blacktop
Screening Friday, March 25 @ 9:00 pm ET - https://cytu.be/r/ShutUpAndDrive
Shut Up And Drive!
I've started a new club dedicated to vintage car & road movies. [more inside]
Movie: Two-Lane Blacktop
A story of two men drag-racing across the U.S. in a primer grey '55 Chevy. Dennis Wilson is the mechanic, James Taylor is the driver. [more inside]
December 27
Movie: White Lightning
An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring. Burt Reynolds stars in this 1973 film, directed by Joseph Sargeant and written by William W. Norton. [more inside]