So you might recall a few months ago when I caught a screening of GREMLINS. That afternoon was my first experience with the film in possibly twenty years, and I was actually surprised at how well the film had held up. However, that was just me talking…a cat who’d seen the film as an impressionable…
Something a little different this time around. Thus far, my conversations with other bloggers on neo-classics has leant itself to the light and comedic. Today I figured we’d change gears a little and tackle something badass…and something whose neo-classic status has increased over the last decade or so. As it happens the power-grab story that…
When I was growing up, I outwardly acted like Tom Cruise in TOP GUN (which is odd because I wasn’t the best at anything). Inwardly I felt more like Lloyd Dobler (which is odd because I was never able to tap into his self deprecation). One might think given the rom-com iconic status of Dobler’s…
You may recall that late last year, I started this series where I get my fellow movie-lovers to check out some 80’s and 90’s pop culture touchstones that they might have missed to see how they hold up to a fresh pair of eyes. So far, the entries in this series – THE BREAKFAST CLUB,…
When I first had the idea to ask people who’d never seen some pop culture touchstones to watch them and tell me what they thought, I had thoughts on which films would stand the test of time and which ones wouldn’t. “Surely” I said to myself “Ferris is still the man.” Enter Castor Troy. Sir…
I had a conversation recently about the movies of my youth, and found myself wondering aloud how well they held up. My hypothesis was that the two teen comedies that likely still held up were FERRIS BEULLER’S DAY OFF and THE BREAKFAST CLUB. So the challenge went forth – find a film literate peson who’d…
