1980s Movies Posts

If I was asked to choose the single, most important moment in my life when cinema truly affected me for the first time, I would, without hesitation, say Return of the Jedi on the big screen at a pokey little cinema called The Metro in Ashton-Under-L…

There is nothing quite like the experience of Walter Hill’s 1984 film Streets of Fire because it manages to successfully combine so many elements from history, mythology, film, television, and music to create an amazingly anachronistic music v…

When I was a much younger human, I managed to stuff in even more movie watching than I do now with my only “reel” obstacle being the MPAA.  Now, while there are many excellent films rated PG-13 and under, the lingering problem for m…

I’ve talked a few times on the podcast about how my media taste as a child was directly related to not liking anything that my dad liked.  It was not that I intentionally tried to be a contrarian with him; we are polar opposites in any nu…

Stephen King is very well known as a supernatural horror novelist, and there is really no mystery as to why.  His early career is a greatest hits of weird literature.  His first three published books were Carrie, ‘Salem’s Lot, …

In the 80s, MTV was awesome.  They played tons of videos of music you actually wanted to hear, at least if you were me.  Michael Jackson and Madonna were on heavy rotation, but it wasn’t the same song over and over again ad nauseum (…

I’m the kind of person who finds it very easy to get lost in fiction.  Books and movies both.  I live in my head a lot of the time anyway, so when I read or watch something that I find very engaging, the world around me disappears.&n…

When Harry Met Sally stands tall as my second favorite romantic comedy of all time (my number 1 pick being Moonstruck), with everything being a solid 10 in each and every department. I would not even know how to begin tallying the total number of ti…

Remakes have been around for as long as humans have walked the Earth, and I like to imagine that even prior to the arrival of humankind, amoebas and other life passed around the same stories as well.  Storytelling is in our DNA, whether you are…

In his quixotic quest to gift people with the greatest Christmas ever, Clark Griswold and I are soulmates.  There is no better feeling than the warmth you feel in the pit of your stomach while fondly looking back on your family holiday memories…