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Best. Ending. Ever.

by Bill Ward on April 14, 2010

in Movies of a Misspent Youth, Video

Because it is impossible to have too much Buckaroo Banzai in your life, I give to you the best ending credit sequence of all time:

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Swamp Thing (movie review)

by Bill Ward on April 5, 2010

in Movies of a Misspent Youth

Title: Swamp Thing
Year: 1982
Rating: PG
Director: Wes Craven
Writer(s): Wes Craven (comic: Len Wein, Bernie Wrightson)
Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Louis Jourdan, Ray Wise, Dick Durock, David Hess, Nicholas Worth

When a horrible accident transforms Dr. Alec Holland into a half-man, half-plant juggernaut, he uses his strength to protect the woman he loves, and defeat the power-hungry maniac who would [...]

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April Fool’s was indeed full of fooling this year, but a phony post over at Comics Alliance managed to make me pretty damn envious of the inhabitants of the parallel world in which it was real. It’s Alan Moore’s next League of Extraordinary Gentleman series, and this time around its America’s heroes of the 80’s [...]

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Logan’s Run (movie review)

by Bill Ward on March 29, 2010

in Movies of a Misspent Youth

Title: Logan’s Run
Year: 1976
Rating: PG
Director: Michael Anderson
Writer(s): David Zelag Goodman (novel: William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson)
Cast: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Peter Ustinov

In a far-future computer-controlled city in which life ends at thirty, Logan’s job is to kill those who would escape the system. But as he learns more about a mysterious sanctuary [...]

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Dorsai! Series in Early Production

by Bill Ward on March 26, 2010

in Black Gate Blog, Film & TV

Over at Black Gate today (yes, I’ve been slacking over there, what’s it to ya?) I’ve posted a notice of the news that has been going around lately about a Dorsai! television series, based on the first novel of Gordon R. Dickson’s unfinished Child Cycle. A surprising and potentially great choice for some original programming, [...]

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Title: Dawn of the Dead
Year: 1978
Rating: NR
Director: George A. Romero
Writer(s): George A. Romero
Cast: Ken Foree, David Emge, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross, Tom Savini

Four survivors of the zombie apocalypse make a comfortable life for themselves in a suburban mall. But in a world with no future, can mere survival be enough?
Rewind . . .
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Buckaroo Banzai: A Pictorial

by Bill Ward on March 9, 2010

in Movies of a Misspent Youth

After ransacking the web for images for my The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai review, I ended up with quite a lot of unused pics. Rather than deviate from my two-pic format for the  reviews, I thought I’d post some more here in honor of one of the most distinctive looking movies of the 80s.’
The most [...]

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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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