Category Archives: Movie Reviews

School’s Out Forever With ‘Graduation Day’

Graduation Day, released in the mid-spring of 1981, would be mostly forgotten if it wasn’t for two key factors. First off, it’s one of the earliest appearances by a young actress named Vanna White, who would go on to find success as the letter turning on Wheel of Forturne, which she has surprisinly been doingContinue reading “School’s Out Forever With ‘Graduation Day’”

‘Land Of Mine’ Exposes Savagery Of War Falls On The Innocents

Two wrongs don’t make a right, as the old saying goes. What happened during World War II by the Axis of Evil was wrong. But that doesn’t mean the Allied Forces didn’t do some horrible things in retalliation. Monday was the 78th anniversary of Operation Overlord, aka D-Day, when American forces led an invasion onContinue reading “‘Land Of Mine’ Exposes Savagery Of War Falls On The Innocents”

How 1980s Buddy Cop And Action Movies Are Loaded With Homeroticism

By the time the 1980s rolled around, AIDS was being rumored as a “gay cancer” but no one talked about it. Not until Rock Hudson, the famed legendary movie star, came out and announced that he was gay and dying of AIDS. Hudson was a friend of President Ronald Reagan and that was when theContinue reading “How 1980s Buddy Cop And Action Movies Are Loaded With Homeroticism”

‘The Adam Project’ Blends Sci-Fi Action With Family Comedy/Drama

The last time Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy teamed up, they produced the video game sci-fi action-comey Free Guy. And I’m going to get a lot of people upset but I was disappointed. I’m not saying that I didn’t enjoy it. I really felt the movie was marketed with us thinking that Reynolds isContinue reading “‘The Adam Project’ Blends Sci-Fi Action With Family Comedy/Drama”

‘Final Exam’ Copies Better Slasher Flicks But Still Makes The Grade

The slasher craze of the 1980s was an odd time in Hollywood. Anyone with a few hundred thousand dollars and some young actors with minimum acting experience could make a movie about a killer who stalks/terrorizes young people. Movies, such as Black Christmas and Halloween, helped to prove you didn’t need a big studio budgetContinue reading “‘Final Exam’ Copies Better Slasher Flicks But Still Makes The Grade”

If You’re Taking A Road Trip This Summer, Don’t Get ‘Lost In America’

Lost in America is a wonderful time capsule of a period in American history where people who had it the best but thought they needed more. Directed and co-written by Albert Brooks who also plays the protagonist David Howard, it’s a look at Baby Boomer yuppies who aren’t happy but for separate reasons. David andContinue reading “If You’re Taking A Road Trip This Summer, Don’t Get ‘Lost In America’”

It’s Insane Why We Don’t Take Mental Health More Seriously

I know that it’s gotten to a point where every month, every week, every day it seems is Something Something Day, Week or Month. But since it is Memorial Day today and May is Mental Health Awareness Month, both of them seem to go hand and hand. Ask yourself. How many people buried at ArlingtonContinue reading “It’s Insane Why We Don’t Take Mental Health More Seriously”

‘Sonic The Hedgehog 2’ More Than Just Electric Boogaloo

Three years ago, when the trailer dropped for the first Sonic the Hedgehog, the Internet and fans weren’t too happy. Originally scheduled to be released in November of 2019, the original design for movie Sonic was so bad, people almost universally revolted. The image of Sonic with human eyes and those creepy teeth were mostlyContinue reading “‘Sonic The Hedgehog 2’ More Than Just Electric Boogaloo”

‘Prom Night’ Turns Into Disco Bloodbath

The premise behind the original Prom Night released in the summer of 1980 is a simple one: What if someone took the original Halloween and gave it a Saturday Night Fever vibe?And just for good measure, they got Jamie Lee Curtis and a nice disco soundtrack. It also helped that Curtis knew how to danceContinue reading “‘Prom Night’ Turns Into Disco Bloodbath”