Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
Girls Just Want to Have Fun is named for the Cyndi Lauper song, but it doesn’t even have the original song in the movie. If that fact upsets you, perhaps this isn’t the film for you. What it does have is plenty of star power before they were famous. Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt and […]
Ten Larry Cohen films
We’ve done retrospectives on the films of Lucio Fulci, Mario Bava and Sergio Martino, but now it’s time to go stateside and concentrate on perhaps the finest horror and exploitation film auteur that America ever produced, Larry Cohen. Cohen was born in Manhattan but raised in the Bronx, where he became a film buff, loving […]
My Chauffeur (1986)
Deborah Foreman is my favorite 1980’s comedy girl. From Real Genius to Valley Girl, April Fool’s Day and Waxwork, she’s always dependable, always cute and always real. She’s the kind of girl that 80’s dorks like me wish we’d get as girlfriends. And people noticed, with one critic comparing her to a “New Wave Carole Lombard crossed with early Shirley MacLaine.” […]
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