1980s Fantasy Film Festival #10: “Brazil” (1985)
Aug05

1980s Fantasy Film Festival #10: “Brazil” (1985)

[Note: The following review contains SPOILERS for Time Bandits.] And now, we begin the next sequence of our 1980s Fantasy Film Festival All 1980s Fantasy Film Festival Posts Next Friday: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) Full Upcoming...

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Faerie Tale Theatre 5.02: “The Princess Who Had Never Laughed”
Aug05

Faerie Tale Theatre 5.02: “The Princess Who Had Never Laughed”

Once upon a time, in a magical decade known as the Nineteen Eighties, a then-modest little cable network called Showtime decided to launch its very first original television series. Although today known best for programs about serial killers, drug-addicted caregivers, and criminal suburban mothers, this was a quainter, more distant era, all but lost to the mists of time, and thus it was pronounced throughout the land that this first...

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Power in a Union: “Pride” (2014)
Oct24

Power in a Union: “Pride” (2014)

I usually only write about genre on this site, but every now and then, a work of art comes along that affects me so deeply, I can’t bring myself to ignore it here just because it doesn’t fit under a prescribed category. Such is the case with the recent British film, Pride, which I saw in a small indie cinema just over a week ago in New York, and which touched me so deeply and entertained me so much that I proceeded to see...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones 3.07: “Hollywood Follies”
Sep08

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones 3.07: “Hollywood Follies”

Currently, I’ve been rewatching and blogging on The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, continuing last week with the twenty-first chapter, “Scandal of 1920”. Before proceeding with the next and final chapter, here are a few things you should know, if you haven’t read the earlier post: You might have noticed that I referred to this show as The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones instead of The Young Indiana Jones...

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Awfully Big Adventures: “Hook” (1991)
Sep03

Awfully Big Adventures: “Hook” (1991)

First off, an explanation: For the past few months, I have been running a 1980s Fantasy Film Festival at the site, posting a review of one classic or not-so-classic from the era every Friday. You may have noticed that that series has stopped running the past few weeks, and the reason is simple–literally moments before I was supposed to be writing my review of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Robin Williams died, an event that hit...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones 3.06: “Scandal of 1920”
Sep01

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones 3.06: “Scandal of 1920”

Currently, I’ve been rewatching and blogging on The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, continuing last week with the twentieth chapter, “Mystery of the Blues”. Before proceeding with the next chapter, here are a few things you should know, if you haven’t read the earlier post: You might have noticed that I referred to this show as The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones instead of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and this...

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