On January 28, 1986, the NASA space shuttle Challenger disintegrated shortly after launch, killing all seven crew members on board, and the whole world mourned the tragic death of those lost souls, but as the world is a bizarre and freaky place 20th Century Fox Pictures just so happened to be making a family-friendly film…
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Movies
Streets of Fire (1984) – Review
Set in “Another Place…Another Time” this retro-futuristic world of Walter Hill’s rock & roll fable Streets of Fire came and went into theaters in the mid-80s with hardly a ripple, barely grossing over $8 million at the box office, yet over the years it has developed a strong cult following.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) – Review
If there is one take away from Star Wars:The Last Jedi it’s that heroism has a cost, and sometimes that cost is pretty high. That we’ve had eight chapters, nine movies counting Rogue One, and yet we are still discovering new themes and characters is a bigger surprise to me than something like “Luke, I…
Shazam! (1974-1977) – Review
In the early 70s kids were overjoyed to see Hanna-Barbera’s Super Friends cartoon, starring their favorite superheroes each and every Saturday morning, but over at rival animation house Filmation a half-hour live-action Saturday morning program, featuring the adventures of Captain Marvel, was being produced, and to say the results were something less than heroic would…
The Black Hole (1979) – Review
What do you get when you cross Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey with Shakespeare’s The Tempest? Well in 1979 Walt Disney Studios kind of answered that question with the release of their first PG-rated film called The Black Hole, unfortunately, that answer was something audiences of the late 70s were not particularly interested in…