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Renny Harlin (born Renny Lauri Mauritz Harjola in Riihimäki, Finland in March of 1959) is one of those filmmakers who somehow managed to be huge, influential, wildly successful, catastrophically unsuccessful, critically dismissed, financially celebrated, totally misunderstood, and relentlessly productive all at the same time. And I mean that as the highest possible compliment. This is a guy who has worked in Hollywood, Europe, Finland, Bulgaria, and China, who has directed g

With the release of F1: The Movie , starring none other than Brad Pitt behind the wheel of a high-speed Formula 1 death machine, I thought now would be the perfect time to throw together a list of my favorite car racing movies. Now, full disclosure: I am not a die-hard car racing fan. Never have been. I never stayed up late to catch the Indy 500 . I never subscribed to NASCAR Weekly . And I don’t think I’ve ever used the phrase “pole position” in a sentence that didn’t end