Bill Ward's blog of all things genre
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, [...]
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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 . [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 . . . . . . [...]
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