Unconventional Christmas Movie Review: Gremlins (1984)
A common malady among aspiring artists is to get hung up on an established set of rules. That’s not to deny that any rules…
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Forensic Geekery: Looking at Pop Culture History Post the High 90’s
Spend enough time on this blog, and you’ll soon discover that contextualizing the generations, especially in regard to pop culture, gets a lot of page space.…
Retro Review: Batman Returns (1992) a Self-Indulgent, Subversive Feminist Allegory
Tim Burton’s first Batman movie was a classic black swan event. Like Star Wars, it was a genre film by a fledgling director whose quirky vision inspired…
Retro Review: Batman (1989) Still a First Rate Thrill Ride
Back in the 80s, an action movie by a young director with only two films under his belt was shot at a venerable…
Retro Review: The Crow (1994)
Lately, movie reviews and true accounts of high strangeness have become popular post subjects here. With the spooky season upon us and Hollywood on its knees due to Corona-chan,…
Trekonomics: Discussing Star Trek’s Pseudo-Economics
Robert P. Murphy points out that, not only does the post-scarcity economy portrayed in Star Trek not make sense, it’s not really even post-scarcity. In reply to…
Classic Review: ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey’ Better Then the Original
Readers immediately asked for a follow up to Monday’s post on Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. I’d planned on watching the sequel, anyway, so…
Retro Reviews: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) & Bogus Journey (1991)
Red Letter Media’s retrospective on Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and its sequel, occasioned by the recent release of the series’ long-awaited third film, put me in…
Hamburger Nationalism: A Warning to Any Dissenter from Clown World
With the constant churn of the news cycle, it’s easy to forget that the current counterculture moment initially coalesced around pop culture revolts like Gamer…
Retro Reviews: The Running Man (1987)
In keeping with my recent penchant for reviewing lesser 80s and 90s classics, I took the occasion to rewatch 1987’s camp dystopia actioner The Running Man. Based on…