Day: April 8, 2019

It’s impossible to explain to anyone who wasn’t around when this movie came out what its impact was. It changed comedy. It came directly from the minds at the National Lampoon. In 1973’s National Lampoon’s High School Yearbook, writer Doug Kenney created the characters of Larry Kroger, Mandy Pepperidge, and Vernon Wormer, who by and large appear exactly […]

Two sisters — both of whom had suffered abuse at the hands of their sadistic father in their childhood — learn that he’s dead. Seeing as how they can’t get their revenge in any normal way, they decide to use witchcraft to bring his spirit back and finally get their payback. That’s the idea behind […]

My wife asked me, “Why would anyone watch this movie?” She doesn’t get it. She wasn’t around in the 1980’s, when we had no internet. She wasn’t going through puberty. She’ll never understand staying up until 3:15 AM to catch a movie about a Hamburger University and the joy that it can bring. Russell Proco […]