Reviews

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

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

When you’re taking an English Literature class, at some point the teacher will talk about the unreliable narrator. This is when you get a sense that the person telling the story might not be honest about the events. A lot of autobiographies have unreliable narrators since the “real” people want

If you had told me that I had rented the VHS for Frankie Freako from Phar-Mor Drugs’ video section back in the early ’90s, I wouldn’t debate you. I rented a lot of weird stuff with their 3 tapes for $1.50 deal. This is how I found Ghoulies, Puppet Master

As someone who was in high school in 1982, I can affirm that it was a great time for those of us who weren’t jocks or freaks. If you liked science fiction, cool stuff was happening. My school got its first personal computers for us to use. Doctor Who began