Some Kind of Hero (1981)
If you’re just about the right age, then the days of the VHS rental were your introduction to Richard Pryor. In many cases too young to see his movies in […]
Looking For Positives In a Quartet of Duds
Generally I hate getting overly critical of films for a number of reasons. One of which is we only see what’s actually on the screen which can become an easy […]
Forgotten Action Titles For the VHS Fan
Every generation has their very own outlet for lower tier flicks aimed at the fans who love to wallow in less than stellar “A” list productions. MGM and the other […]
Rutger Hauer Heroics
From the Golden Age of the VHS Rental It seemed as if discovering Rutger Hauer flicks was a right of passage and a monthly ritual when it came time to visit the local […]
Cops and Doggers …. A Triple Treat With Hooch, Jerry Lee and ….. Chuck Norris?
On occasion throughout the history of movies, competing studios seemed to have the same subject before the cameras. The year 1998 found the end of the world via a meteor […]
A Collection of Low Budget Sci-Fi/Horror Flicks, 80’s VHS Style
Having accumulated more movies than the average film goer is more than obvious to those who have gotten to know me either personally or through the blog here at Mike’s […]
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
By way of New World Pictures and the sure to be frugal, Roger Corman comes this not so epic space opera that is essentially a reworking of The Magnificent Seven […]
I, The Jury (1982)
This version of the Mickey Spillane/Mike Hammer story is about the most perfect example of what the VHS age was all about when it came to exploitation titles finding legs […]
Blow Out (1981)
The word stylish rules the day when viewing this Brian De Palma film featuring John Travolta in the leading role as a sound man working the low budget film industry who […]
Family Business (1989)
After going nearly 28 years between viewings, I came away from this Sidney Lumet film feeling a little better than I did the first time if my recollections are correct. Am […]
Tough Enough (1983)
I can’t think of a better way to start a redneck comedy tough guy competition movie than with a barroom setting and eight finalists in the nightly wet T-Shirt contest. Now […]
Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981)
When an actor of Paul Newman’s stature signs up for any film role, that movie becomes another that winds up on the must see list. See it I did when […]
Nadine (1987)
“Why is it you work your butt off all your entire life just to get ahead, and it takes a couple of nitwits about ten minutes to screw the whole […]
The Final Countdown (1980)
Like many others I suppose, I’ve always enjoyed a good time travel story and this feature starring Kirk Douglas offers us a great “what if” to Pearl Harbor on December […]
Class of 1984 (1982)
Juvenile delinquents on film had changed a lot by the time of this Mark Lester release when compared to 1955’s Richard Brooks smash hit Blackboard Jungle which pitted Glenn Ford as […]
Suspect (1987)
Released to local theaters during the same year as her Oscar winning performance in Moonstruck, Cher appears in this Peter Yates thriller as a court appointed attorney assigned to defend a mute Liam […]
