Tag: 1984
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FRANCHISE REWIND: Ghostbusters Afterlife (2021)
Ghostbusters Afterlife, 2021 (McKenna Grace) Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Releasing “This isn’t a farm, It’s a trap.” Oh my God, I feel so dirty after watching this movie! It might make me feel better to know that Ivan, and his son, Jason Reitman, as well as Dan Aykroyd’s respective hearts were in the right place, but…
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FRANCHISE REWIND: Ghostbusters (2016)
Ghostbusters, 2016 (Melissa McCarthy) Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Releasing “Never compare me to the mayor in Jaws! Never!” This is what happens when you go too far. Sometimes an idea has to stay relevant, even if the relevancy comes about in a wholly inorganic way. We can keep the idea alive by referencing it, by restoring…
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FRANCHISE REWIND: Conan the Destroyer (1984)
Conan the Destroyer, 1984 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) MCA/Universal “Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, sword in hand. It is I, his chronicler, who knows well his saga.…
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SHIP TO SHIP: A Star Trek Podcast “Absent Friends”
SHIP TO SHIP: A Star Trek Podcast “Absent Friends” https://archive.org/download/ShipToShip209Complete/Ship%20to%20Ship%20209%20Complete.mp3 Leonard Nimoy directs the third theatrical installment of the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, starring William Shatner, De Forest Kelley, and Christopher Lloyd. Our YouTube channel! © Frequent Wire, David Lawler copyright 2018 for all original vocal and audio content…
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“The Buddy System, 1984”
“You’ve gained seven pounds. If you want to put something in your mouth, try a gun.” The Buddy System, 1984 (Richard Dreyfuss), 20th Century Fox Okay, what the Hell is going on here? Why can’t Dreyfuss and Sarandon make it work? There’s no direct hostility (at least later on), but there is anxiety between two…
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Vintage Cable Box: “The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956”
“Sorry we were gone so long, but we had to pick up Hank!” The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956 (James Stewart), Paramount Pictures In what may have been (for the time) the boldest examination of American exceptionalism and “xenophobia” (though I hate to bandy that term in the wake of overuse), The Man Who…
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Vintage Cable Box: “Rope, 1948”
“By what right did you dare decide that that boy in there was inferior and therefore could be killed??!! Did you think you were GOD, Brandon!!?? Is that what you thought when you choked the life out of him??!! Is that what you thought when you served food from his grave!!?? Well I don’t know…
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Vintage Cable Box: “Rear Window, 1954”
“Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.” Rear Window, 1954 (James Stewart), Paramount Pictures Freshman year of high school, we had a cocky, smarmy English teacher who enjoyed watching us fumble through Shakespeare, and apparently lived to correct our pronunciations of various phrases and outdated language. In the middle of the…
Misadventures in Blissville 