Tag: 1990

• FRANCHISE REWIND: Back to the Future, Part III (1990)

  

  Back to the Future, Part III, 1990 (Michael J. Fox) MCA/Universal “Marty, the future isn’t written. It can be changed. You know that. Anyone can make their future whatever they want it to be. I can’t let this one little photograph determine my entire destiny. I have to live my life according to what I…

  lawlerd

  September 13, 2022

  FRANCHISE REWIND

  1990, Back the Future, Cast Away, Christopher Lloyd, Clint Eastwood, comedy, Forrest Gump, FRANCHISE REWIND, Mary Steenburgen, Michael J. Fox, Robert Zemeckis, s cience fiction, Steven Spielberg, Unforgiven, Universal Pictures, western

• FRANCHISE REWIND: Rocky V (1990)

  

  Rocky V, 1990 (Sylvester Stallone) MGM/UA “Get up you son of a bitch! ‘Cause Mickey loves you!” Rocky V breaks my heart, but things have to change. For the first time since the first Rocky, we have a movie with real drama and conflict. Rocky is dealt one setback after another. He may have won…

  lawlerd

  July 20, 2022

  FRANCHISE REWIND

  1976, 1990, Burgess Meredith, Drago, Harrison Ford, John G. Avildsen, Mike Tyson, Philadelphia, Rambo, Rocky, Rocky V, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Tommy Morrison

• Under the Eye: The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)

  

  I hadn’t seen The Handmaid’s Tale movie since the mid ’90s, so when it showed up on PBS, I recorded it as a possible review for my Vintage Cable Box series, or for this collection of essays. It’s been on the DVR list going on about a year, and I still had no interest in…

  lawlerd

  November 5, 2020

  Blog

  1990, Aidan Quinn, Faye Dunaway, Harold Pinter, Margaret Atwood, Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall, The Handmaid's Tale, Volker Schlöndorff

• Extreme Cinema! “I’d Buy That For a Dollar!”

  Tonight, we discuss the selected work of Paul Verhoeven, from 1983’s De Vierde Man to his most recent movie, Elle, which earned Isabelle Huppert an Academy Award nomination in 2016. The credits appear to be a fly caught in a web, interspersed with images of Christ on the crucifix. A spider catches the fly and…

  lawlerd

  July 30, 2017

  Podcast

  1983, 1987, 1990, 2016, Academy Awards, action, adventure, De Vierde Man, Elle, get your own crab, graphic violence, help me, Isabelle Huppert, Jeroen Krabbé, Michael Ironside, Miguel Ferrer, Paul Verhoeven, Peter Weller, religious imagery, Ronny Cox, science fiction, Sharon Stone, suspense, The Fourth Man, Total Recall, toxic waste

• Extreme Cinema! “Don’t Use the Same Gun Twice”

  Alternate Title: “McNaughton by Nature” Here we are again, nauseating you with another episode of Extreme Cinema – Action and Exploitation movies with Andrew La Ganke and David Lawler. Tonight, my stars, but we have two movies directed by John McNaughton, Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael and How to Make an American Quilt … just joking,…

  lawlerd

  February 19, 2017

  Podcast

  1985, 1986, 1990, action, Al Pacino, Andrew La Ganke, cult classic, Danny Peary, David Lawler, exploitation, Extreme Cinema, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, John Goodman, John McNaughton, little grey tabby, Mad Dog & Glory, Michaerl Rooker, midnight movie, Rae Dawn Chong, Roger Ebert, Sea of Love, Sushi, The Borrower, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tom Towles

• Extreme Cinema! “Chainsaws of Love”

  You know why I’m excited? You know why I’m jumping up and down in my seat? I interviewed Fred Olen Ray! We had a great interview. I was watching “Haunting Fear” last week, last Saturday ( I still really love that movie), I figure what the Hell, I’ll take a look and see if he…

  lawlerd

  November 13, 2016

  Podcast

  1987, 1990, Albert Pyun, American Independent, Brinke Stevens, Bulletproof, Delia Sheppard, Fred Olen Ray, Gary Busey, graphic violence, Gunnar Hansen, Haunting Fear, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, horror, Horror/Comedy, Jan Michael Vincent, Jay Richardson, Karen Black, Linnea Quigley, Michelle Bauer, nudity, sex, Sylvester Stallone, The New Poverty Row, Troma