When Paradise came out back in Spring of 1982, my local newspaper’s movie critic slammed it as a clone of Blue Lagoon with Brooke Shields. He didn’t say too much more so I had no desire to see the film at the time. I regret trusting that hack. Paradise doesn’t have the whole creepy incest … Read more
Heavenly Bodies often gets scoffed as a Flashdance wannabe film. It doesn’t help that one distributor released it as “Scratch Dance.” While both films feature women in legwarmers, the stories have nothing in common. Flashdance is a fantasy film. We’re supposed to believe that Jennifer Beals is a welder at
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