Class Of 1984 When released in 1982, this unsung classic painted quite the apocalyptic vision of the future of American public education, unheard of at the time, where schools would soon become inundated with gang violence and drug dealing, along with the now de facto standard of metal detectors for the incoming students. Director Mark […]
Cliffhanger In his ongoing, career long effort to refine the art of mindless action movies into that of a respectable form of entertainment, Sylvester Stallone tried many different things and many different concepts, usually from his own original screenplays but he was also not above taking the work of other writers and giving it his […]
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind: Director’s Cut Best remembered today as one of Steven Spielberg’s “calling card” films (along with Jaws, Raiders, and E.T.) that established him as THE premier blockbuster director, one can look back at this movie from 1977 and be forced to acknowledge that, along with not aging all that well, […]
Club Paradise This 1986 comedy, a reunion of the director and writer of the Immortal Classic Caddyshack, can best be chalked up as a monumental failure, a project with a promising cast and premise, that bombs mostly because it’s just not funny at all. This viewer counted maybe 4 separate occasions during the movie that […]
Clue The story concept of having a bunch of various characters gathered together in a old, dark spooky mansion is one that has been around since the days of silent movies (usually involving some sort of nefarious schemes) and many of the oldschool detective stories also embraced the idea of the detective gathering all of […]
Cobra Sylvester Stallone was pretty much in his prime in the 80s, as he and Arnold redefined the action genre for all time. That being said, this Sly entry from 1986 is entertaining enough despite being loaded with flaws and a lack of plausibility. The inspiration is easy enough to figure out: Stallone intended this […]
Cocoanuts Before movies being projected in theaters had really started to catch on with the masses, the primary form of entertainment for most people was the world of vaudeville, traveling road productions that were considered variety shows of the highest order and despite all of the singers, jugglers and other novelty acts that comprised these […]
Color Me Blood Red The last (and least) of H.G. Lewis’ so-called “Blood Trilogy” is also incredibly dull and slow-paced as well. Released in 1965, it tells the story of a struggling artist who in a quest to discover his “voice” (and satisfy a very pretentious art critic) realizes that if he uses human blood […]