Movies of a Misspent Youth

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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