Showing posts with label 1987. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1987. Show all posts
Friday, May 1, 2026

Second childhood

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COCOON 1985 Directed by Ron Howard Written by David Saperstein and Tom Benedek *BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED 1987 Directed by Matthew Robbins Writ...
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Saturday, April 4, 2026

You might not have heard of it, it's pretty obscure

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THE HIDDEN 1987 Directed by Jack Sholder Written by Jim Kouf and Jack Sholder Spoilers: moderate
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Census Bloodbath: A boy's best friend is his mother

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BLOOD RAGE aka Slasher aka Nightmare at Shadow Woods It wouldn't be October without Brennan Klein of Popcorn Culture and Alternate End...
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Sunday, October 30, 2022

Census Bloodbath: A true crime

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RETURN TO HORROR HIGH And once again we welcome you, t o our October Switcheroo Where Brennan Klein deigns to review nice old sci-fi, like I...
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Sunday, June 5, 2022

The real Beverly Hills cop was the friends we made along the way

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BEVERLY HILLS COP II 1987 Directed by Tony Scott Written by Eddie Murphy, Robert D. Wachs, Larry Ferguson and Warren Skaaren Spoilers: moder...
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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Red, red wine

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RED SORGHUM 1987 Directed by Zhang Yimou Written by Chen Jianyu and Zhu Wei (based on the stories "Red Sorghum" and "Sorghum ...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

Census Bloodbath: They love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical bullshit.

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STAGEFRIGHT (aka Deliria , aka Blood Bird , aka, for unknown reasons, Aquarius and/or Stagefright: Aquarius ) The SWITCHEROOOOO!  I...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Census Bloodbath: Everything louder than everything else

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SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II No more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, no more days to Halloween, here's our crossover!  A...
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Thursday, September 27, 2018

Predator Week, part I: The most dangerous game

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PREDATOR Quite possibly the 1980s' finest combination of brains and brawn, you'd think Predator would be rated even higher ...
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Monday, May 7, 2018

Once a man... I was onccce a man!

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G.I. JOE: THE MOVIE Not all feature-length films about Hasbro toys are created equal, though Joe: The Movie certainly manages to h...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Census Bloodbath: A devil in a blue dress

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HELLO MARY LOU: PROM NIGHT II 1987 Directed by Bruce Pittman Written by Ron Oliver With Wendy Lyon (Vicki Carpenter), Justin ...
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Joe Dante, part VIII: That's not a baby—that's a Mister Potato Head!

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AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON An inoffensive, indeed, often-pleasing curio from the deepest parts of the 1980s. 1987 Directed by Jo...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Joe Dante, part VII: Adequate voyage

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INNERSPACE The less you expect out of this 80s-style extrapolation of a classic sci-fi trope, the more you're likely to enjoy i...
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Monday, August 22, 2016

Super Week, part IV: Global thermonuclear war

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SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE Bad?  Hell, maybe it is, by some half-imagined objective standard for what it means to be "goo...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Steven Spielberg, part XV: I thought it was Mrs. Victor's soul, going up to heaven

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EMPIRE OF THE SUN Doubling down on the Oscarbait, we find our director continuing his turn toward subjects "more mature" th...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

John Carpenter, part XVI: Party like it's the year one nine nine nine

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PRINCE OF DARKNESS If only all movies about the Devil could be made with this much obvious joy. 1987 Written and directed by...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

To protect the property and citizenry of the City of Chicago

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THE UNTOUCHABLES One of the quintessential examples of how the best thing a film can be about is itself, we have one of the 1980s' ...
Monday, September 14, 2015

A graveyard smash

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THE MONSTER SQUAD Amongst the finest kid's adventures of my childhood.  (That, sadly, I didn't get to see when I actually was a...
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