Tag: Dan Aykroyd
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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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Vintage Cable Box: Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983
“You wanna see something REALLY scary?” Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983 (Dan Aykroyd), Warner Bros. I popped in the old Warner Brothers clamshell VHS tape of this, because I wanted to watch the movie as I remembered it when I saw it on cable television in 1984. Of course I had to play it on…
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Vintage Cable Box: “It Came From Hollywood, 1982”
“You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!” It Came From Hollywood, 1982 (Dan Aykroyd), Paramount Pictures In a throwaway sketch straight out of Kentucky Fried Movie or Second City, Gilda Radner hears a report of an escaped Gorilla. She is instructed to lock her doors, shut her windows, extinguish all fires and above…
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Vintage Cable Box: “Doctor Detroit”, 1983
“I make adjustments to the human spine.” Doctor Detroit, 1983 (Dan Aykroyd), MCA/Universal Doctor Detroit was a movie I had not known about until it premiered on cable television; Cinemax specifically. I had not seen advertisements or trailers for the movie, but I knew if Dan Aykroyd was in it, it had to be funny.…
Misadventures in Blissville 