Runaway Daughters
Runaway Daughters (1994) opens with a montage of black and white news footage and television commercials set to the tune “Let The Good Times Roll” before segueing into a drive-in… Read more »
Runaway Daughters (1994) opens with a montage of black and white news footage and television commercials set to the tune “Let The Good Times Roll” before segueing into a drive-in… Read more »
“There goes my career in noodles” – Mr. Futterman Gremlins (1984) opens like an old anthology horror comic as the inventor Rand Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) ventures into Chinatown in search… Read more »
Joe Dante’s film Matinee (1993) is as much an homage to filmmaker William Castle as it is a tribute to the cinema’s role as a commentator on and reflection of… Read more »
Joe Dante’s film The Howling (1981) remains one of the seminal horror films of the eighties whose critical reputation has only grown since its initial release. It’s the film that… Read more »
Allan Arkush’s film Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979) is a deeply felt, autobiographical expression by the filmmaker within the idiom of early sixties teeny bopper rock musicals. Arkush drew… Read more »
Few American comedies in the second half of the twentieth century are as enjoyable as they are witty. Joe Dante’s classic satirical horror spoof The ‘Brubs (1989) is one of… Read more »
To the uninitiated or would-be cinephile there’s possibly something indispensable about David A. Weiner’s epic surveys of movies in the eighties. Weiner’s most recent addition to his growing catalogue is… Read more »
Joe Dante’s political satire The Second Civil War (1997), made for HBO, has become more relevant in the 2020s than it ever was in the waning days of the Clinton… Read more »
David A. Weiner’s In Search Of Darkness (2019) is a film about American horror films made in the eighties. Over the course of a 264 minute runtime, Weiner combines clips… Read more »
Joe Dante’s Piranha (1978) is a creature feature with its tongue planted firmly in its cheek. This quicke Roger Corman production was penned by John Sayles and combines the familiar… Read more »