Tag: 1980s
Review: SUMMER OF '84 Has An Interesting Dialogue With THE 'BURBS
Be it in big cities or small towns, people have spied on their neighbours, and assumed the worst about them, since we traded a nomadic hunter-gatherer society for permanent houses. It was, however, Alfred Hitchcock (and screenwriter John Michael Hayes)...
Blu-ray Review: THE BREAKFAST CLUB, a Criterion Collection Triumph
The announcement that The Breakfast Club would be joining the Criterion Collection was met with a kind of uproar -- either from fans (like me) enthusiastic about seeing John Hughes' seminal 1980s teen drama preserved and restored in 4K; or...
Review: Delightful Retro Comedy HOT YOUNG BLOODS Runs Out Of Steam
Just as the taste of a madeleine triggers a rush of childhood memories for the protagonist in Marcel Proust's magnum opus In Search of Lost Time, smells, sounds and images can transport all of us to different times in our...
TTTT: Cruise at Earth's End: Watch it Spin Round to a Beautiful Oblivion
Hey, it's another TTTT column, where I, Jim Tudor, take you along on one of Tudor's Twitchin' Travel Tours! For this one, we leave the planet via bubbleship, only to return to to find it an abandoned post-apocalyptic wreck. That's...
I Feel the Need...The Need for TOP GUN in IMAX 3D!!!
"Is this your idea of fun, man?" Why yes, Goose, it really does conform with my idea of fun.We finally have a release date for the IMAX 3D post-convert of Tony Scott's sublime Top Gun. A deliciously homoerotic jingoistic recruitment...