Attention Toronto film fans!!! Thanks to TIFF’s Next Wave Film Festival, you will have another opportunity to catch one of my Top 12 Films of 2012 on the big screen one more time!!! I was lucky enough to see this one premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, and I can’t rave about…
Tag: 80s
Firewalker (1986) – J. Lee Thompson
The goofy 80s adventure movies continue with this goofy, campy clunker starring Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett Jr. and Melody Anderson. Stealing from the vein of Raiders of the Lost Ark (right down th an appearance by John Rhys-Davies) and Romancing the Stone, the film pairs up Chuck as Max Donigan and Louis as Leo Porter, a pair of adventurers who…
Silent Night (2012) – Steven C. Miller
Anchor Bay delivers with a nice modern update on the slasher movie, using the cult classic Silent Night Deadly Night as it’s jumping off point. A film, that looks simply amazing on blu-ray, colours and details are wonderfully crisp, and I had a really good time with this one. There were two outright homages to the original film,…
Toronto After Dark – Shorts After Dark
In the midst of a brilliantly busy Saturday in Toronto, including the annual Zombie Walk and the Grand Opening of the iconic comic book store The Silver Snail in its new Yonge Street location, I settled into the balcony of the Bloor Cinema to watch the shorts program of this outstanding festival. Featuring 9 shorts of…
TIFF 2012: Ghost Graduation – Javier Ruiz Caldera
I have to admit, I was secretly really excited to see this movie, but part of me was worried that it wouldn’t be as good as I hoped it would be. The plot description was, essentially, written for my 80’s-lovin’ self: Five students – a rebel, a jock, a pretty and popular pregnant girl,…
Friday The 13th (1980) – Revisited
I’m revisiting this one, though I wrote a post about it some time ago. Apprently it made the list of 101 Horror Movies, so I thought I would reexamine it in the context of all that had gone before it. Much like Halloween before it, it full on embraces the stalker/slasher films that permeated the…
A Boy (or Girl) & His (or Her) Adventure Movie
Where have all the fun youth/tween/teen/twentysomething adventure films gone? When I was in any of those age groups listed above there were dozens of them. You couldn’t turn around in the 80s and early 90s without hearing about another one coming along… From the big titles like E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, The Goonies, Explorers, The Last…
I’m Heading Back To The Year 1985… Miami Vice
I spent my formative teen years growing up in my own island paradise, though like all teenagers, I didn’t always appreciate what I had. I think it also explains my love for Magnum, P.I. and Miami Vice. As far as I’m concerned both shows were perfect embodiments of living in paradise, well, more or less,…
Michael J Fox
Michael J. Fox. His name is entwined inextricably with the 80s, and our hearts. He has also shown up a lot recently in my life, not the man himself, but his presence. I’ve been rewatching Family Ties, I’m working my way through season 2 even now, and loving every minute of it, and I’ve also…
Caught In The Net(flix) – Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)
Yup, I went back to Crystal Lake again. But you know what? I enjoyed this one! I got into the camp of it (pun intended) and found lots to laugh at. When this Friday featured a jump from 1:85 to 2:35 aspect ratio, I figured there must be a bump up in the budget. Not…
The Mind Reels 