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Title: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!
Year: 1984
Rating: PG
Director: W.D. Richter
Writer(s): Earl Mac Rauch
Cast: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Clancy Brown, Lewis Smith, Pepe Serna
When scientist and international celebrity Buckaroo Banzai successfully bypasses matter itself and penetrates into the 8th dimension, he unwittingly plays into the hands [...]
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Over at Black Gate today I posted a quick notice about the rumors that have been swirling around about a film sequel to HBO’s rather awesome Rome series, which ran for two seasons. While a Rome movie has been more or less an open secret for some time, it’s nice to see it back in [...]
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Recently, over at a site called Movie Line I saw two videos on the 1983 HBO movie intro sequence — both the opener itself, and a behind-the-scenes look at how it was made. For anyone with even the slightest bit of 80’s nostalgia (of the sort I’ve been chronicling in my Movies of a Misspent [...]
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Title: Alien Nation
Year: 1988
Rating: R
Director: Graham Baker
Cast: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, Kevyn Major Howard
In a near future in which aliens live and work among us, Detective Matt Sykes investigates the death of his partner with the help of a ‘Newcomer,’ and uncovers the aliens’ biggest secret.
Rewind . . .
. . . to a [...]
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Title: Runaway
Year: 1984
Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael Crichton
Cast: Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons, Cynthia Rhodes, Kirstie Alley
Police Sergeant Jack Ramsay, a specialist in the pacification of robots that have run amok, must defeat a psychopathic robotocist on a mechanized killing spree.
Rewind . . .
. . . to the late eighties and every weekend on HBO you’d see an [...]
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Title: The Black Hole
Year: 1979
Rating: PG
Director: Gary Nelson
Cast: Maximillian Schell, Robert Forster, Joesph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Roddy McDowall (voice)
The explorers of the USS Palomino stumble upon the long lost hulk of the USS Cygnus, parked at a stable point beyond a Black Hole. But the Cygnus is not truly dead, though [...]
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I have always been interested in some of the what if’s of World War II, especially some of the more extravagant super weapons that never got off the drawing board. 1945A, a short film from Ryan Nagata, takes the scifi potential inherent in that premise and runs with it. Pretty amazing work that again just [...]
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