Since the first time I viewed it as an eight year old (around 1989), The Bad News Bears was something of a pedestrian, underdog baseball tale – something that was reinforced by the crass, raunchier 2005 remake substituting Billy Bob Thornton for Walter Matthau as the antihero Morris Buttermaker. However, the original (and, I suppose its successor) […]
As I look back at one of the more nostalgic pieces of 80’s cinema, I would like to examine the highest merits of Teen Wolf: how the intro music resembles John Carpenters Halloween: a steady basketball dribbling replacing the muffled breathing, or the blatant symbolism of the single brilliant bulb in the gym resembles a full moon […]
This ’80s bully montage (girl, we want a montage) serves as Exhibit V that no other decade was more cartoonish or disingenuous to reality than the Ronald Reagan era. I’m not trying to be political with that statement. I just needed a synonym for ’80s so I didn’t use it twice in the same sentence. Both videos […]
In a previous post, I determined that The Happening edged Taking Lives as the worst movie that I had seen in the first decade of this millennium, and moving forward, I’m proud—or saddened—to announce that I have a front runner for the worst movie I will see in the next ten years. Just to put this in […]