Tag: 80s movies
Every Generation Becomes Worse Than the Last: Gremlins
As each year passes, and Gremlins evermore secures a place in the must-see canon of Christmas movies (even if unconventional ones in the vein of [Read More…]
He’s Probably at The Probe: American Gigolo
Naturally, a movie called American Gigolo would ultimately be billed as a love story in the 80s. For what could be more romantic at that [Read More…]
Ed Earl Dodd: A Man Who Doesn’t Exist
There is the fantasy of a man. The kind primarily dreamed of by a fallen woman who still holds, underneath it all, loose dreams of [Read More…]
Body Double Has Transcended the Mere Relegation of Hitchcockian “Body Double” With Time
Few directors have been able to adequately pay homage to Alfred Hitchcock over the decades since the undisputed master of mystery gave us his last [Read More…]
Why Desperately Seeking Susan’s Eponymous Heroine Could Never Get By in New York Now
Susan, no last name, no inhibition. That was the name of the game in the New York of the 80s, wasn’t it? Getting by on [Read More…]
Film School Rejects Can Still Take Comfort in The Big Picture
As the first film to be both written and directed by Christopher Guest (with National Lampoon Lemmings and This Is Spinal Tap being the first [Read More…]
How Jake Ryan Ruined My (And Every Other Heteronormative White Woman’s) Life
What amount of ink hasn’t been spilled over the oeuvre of John Hughes and his many-splendored universe of characters? There has also been no shortage [Read More…]
Alan Ruck Can’t Let Go of the Masochism of Cameron Frye for Domino’s Commercial
For someone who once said of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, “I hated that movie. I couldn’t get any other work. People would be like, ‘Heyyy!’ [Read More…]
The NeverEnding Story: A Movie We Need Now More Than Ever
There are moments in life when you revisit a movie from the past, and have forgotten enough about it to view the film with entirely [Read More…]
The King of Comedy: Taxi Driver for Comedians
For anyone who has ever vehemently believed in their god-given right to fame–regardless of the caliber of talent exhibited–Martin Scorsese’s 1983 film, The King of [Read More…]
