Posted by moviegeek916 on August 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Living Daylights (1987) – The Bond franchise on occasion gets caught up on trying to capitalize on what’s new. On occasion this works very well (the parkour chase in Casino Royale). Other times it just gets silly (pretty much all of Die Another Day). The Living Daylights begins with a training exercise with double-0 … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Prince of Darkness (1987) – So nowadays we’re always being inundated with trilogies, like with The Matrix films or the Dark Knight films. Hell it’s not a totally recent phenomena what with the original Star Wars trilogy (the only Star Wars that counts). What can be almost as interesting is a director’s thematic trilogy. These are … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Creepshow 2(1987) – So I enjoyed the 1982 horror anthology Creepshow. It was written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero so it had that going for it, plus it was their loving homage to hold horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and Vault of Horror. I admittedly went in expecting it … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on June 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Running Man (1987) – A couple weeks ago, we lost actor and longtime game show host Richard Dawson. I never watched Hogan’s Heroes (on which he was a cast member) partially because it was on decades before I was born and partially because growing up I never had the cable channels that aired it … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on April 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This article was originally published on 12ftdwende.com on 30 April 2010. So a few weeks ago I mentioned that my favorite of the cinematic boogeymen is Freddy Krueger. What can I say, he got me young. From the boxes in the video store to the bits and pieces I’d catch on late night television, that … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Raising Arizona (1987) – Oh those Coen Brothers and their Coen-y Coen-ness… I always love that they feel free to indulge their own idiosyncratic impulses and make some bizarre and entertaining films. The Coens have long followed series films (Fargo, No Country For Old Men) with more overt comedies (The Big Lebowski, Burn After Reading) … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Video Dead (1987) — Even by the low, low standards of direct-to-video blood-and-guts horror movies of the 1980s, this movie is a great big steaming pile of dog shit. Okay, now if I point out of everything that’s wrong with this movie like the shitty acting and the almost nonexistent production values you might … Continue reading →
Posted by moviegeek916 on September 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Adventures in Babysitting (1987) — My earlier review of Buffy the Vampire Slayer made me want to go back and watch this movie again too. What can I say: most of the movies I loved when I was seven I still love today. It doesn’t matter if they seem silly or dated or whatever. They … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn (1987) — After years of only seeing this film on the small screen the Crest’s Trash Film orgy allowed me to see it on the epic big screen it deserves! Now I’m not sure you can really review a film well based on a Trash Film orgy screening. People … Continue reading →
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Predator (1987) — Just before going on to direct the gold standard of all action movies (Die Hard) John McTiernan gave us this rumble in the jungle. This film starts out as a “men on a mission” story and then gradually transitions to the alien horror subgenre. Arnold Schwarzenegger does what he does best in … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 