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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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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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Title: Dragonslayer
Year: 1981
Rating: PG
Director: Matthew Robbins
Cast: Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson, John Hallam, Peter Eyre, Sydney Bromley
Apprentice wizard Galen Bradwarden takes on the quest of his dead master to free a fantasy Dark Age kingdom from the predation of an ancient dragon.
Rewind . . .
. . . to six year old me getting a [...]
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Title: An American Werewolf in London
Year: 1981
Rating: R
Director: John Landis
Cast: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine
An American student backpacking through England is attacked and infected by a werewolf. In love with his nurse and haunted by his dead friend, he must come to terms with what he has become — and accept that [...]
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