As a die-hard horror fan, I feel I have the right to say that Friday the 13th has never been a particularly intellectual series. It is has never made chronological sense, nor tried to explain how Jason mysteriously transformed from a drowning 10-year-old boy into a hulking, deformed indestructible killer. But that’s okay. Audiences (for [...]
Disney is readying another launch of sci-fi adventure movie “Flight of the Navigator.” Brad Copeland is writing the remake, which is being produced by Mandeville partners David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman. The 1986 original told the story of a 12-year-old boy who is abducted by an alien spacecraft in 1978 and reappears eight years later, [...]
The Best Movies You Totally Forgot About The Lost Collection Lionsgate presents The Lost Collection eight fun theatrical films from the 1980s featuring the “best films you totally forgot about” that include Irreconcilable Differences, My Best Friend is a Vampire, Morgan Stewart’s Coming Home, The Night Before, Slaughter High, Homer & Eddie, Hiding Out and [...]
The Denver Entertainment Examiner comes up with their list of the 10 best teen movies of the 80s. There’s something about my increasing anxiety at such a typical Colorado spring, in the sense of complete bipolar changes in weather that makes me antsy to watch some good old fashioned and fun loving 80’s teen flicks. I [...]
Even as far as video game preview events go, the latest showing of Atari’s Ghostbusters: The Video Game certainly got off to a surreal start. Sitting comfortably in a swanky London hotel’s screening room, the gathered games writers were treated to the full-length music video of Ray Parker Jr’s Ghostbusters theme tune, which some of [...]
Moviefone has a new feature up counting down the top 40 movies of the 80s. Harrison Ford actually stars in three of the top four films. Raiders of the Lost Ark is obviously one of them, and one of the Star Wars sequels is another one, but can you guess the other Ford film [...]
“Missing in Action” rediscovered for update Joining the legions of remakes of ’80s action movies is a new take on “Missing in Action,” the Chuck Norris vehicle in which he blazes his guns throughout Southeast Asia, liberating prisoners of war. This version, for MGM, will be updated, like most of the new action reboots [...]
Love “Dirty Dancing?” Thank Michael Douglas. The “Wall Street” star’s bump-and-grind with Jill Clayburgh was cut from an obscure ’80s flick, leading the way for the cult-classic dance movie to be made, according to creator Eleanor Bergstein. More than two decades after it turned the innocent middle-school dance into an R-rated afternoon, “Dirty Dancing” leaps [...]
Genre fans are nothing if not specific, boiling films down to their bare-bones essence for purposes of classification. Only they could invent a term such as “Canuxploitation” for horror films of the 1970s and ’80s made in Canada. Cross-pollination with new technology yields “My Bloody Valentine 3-D” as a result. Part remake, part continuation of [...]
It was the television and movie phenomenon that influenced fashion for a generation and had us all rushing out to buy leggings and leg warmers. Now, more than a quarter of a century after Fame first hit our cinemas and TV screens, it’s about to become cool all over again thanks to a new documentary [...]
