A Night in Heaven (1983)
John G. Avildsen had an interesting career. There are movies like Rocky and three Karate Kid films, along with Save the Tiger, W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, Lean on Me, Neighbors and this 1983 kind sorta coming of age film. Rick Malone (Christopher Atkins) is one of the more popular students at his college and used to getting away with just […]
Meatballs 4 (1992)
Bob Logan made a movie called Up Your Alley that dared to pair Murray Langsdon, the Unknown Comic, with Linda Blair. That is reason enough to allow him to direct the fourth Meatballs movie and in true form, this has nothing to do with any of the other films in the series. It was originally going to […]
Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986)
The Meatballs movies aren’t big on continuity, seeing as how Meatballs 2 wasn’t even intended to be a sequel. But at least the third one brings back Rudy, now all grown up and Patrick Dempsey. Over the summer, he’s working and working at a marina for Mean Gene. Sure, I guess that works, the producers thought. But […]
Meatballs Part II (1984)
Yes, Meatballs Part II may have no Bill Murray, but what it does have is Ken Wiederhorn as the director. Somewhere, somehow, someone saw Eyes of a Stranger and Shock Waves and said, that’s the guy to make a teen movie. Actually, I’m being silly, because we all know — we do, right? — that Ken also made King […]
Junesploitation 2021: Specters (1987)
June 9: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie — is Italian horror. Marcello Avallone made three movies in Italy — the mondo The Queer…The Erotic, Un gioco per Eveline and Cugine mie before moving to the United States. Nearly ten years later, Avallone began this film through the help of producer Maurizio Tedesco, the brother […]
Can’t Buy Me Love (1987)
I cut grass from 15 to 25 years old and that’s how I put myself through college and even made extra money once I started my advertising career. I certainly would not have used the money I made to save for a telescope or to date the popular girl in school like Ronald Miller (Patrick […]
Career Opportunities (1991)
Written and co-produced by John Hughes and directed by Bryan Gordon (a writer for Fridays that has gone on to direct Curb Your Enthusiasm, Freaks and Geeks and the Arnold Palmer 30 for 30 documentary), Career Opportunities was a rare misfire for Hughes. It does have one thing going for it and that’s Jennifer Connelly after she made Etoille and Phenomena but before The […]
The Amusement Park (1973)
Originally produced in 1973 and re-discovered and restored in 2017, The Amusement Park was commissioned by the Lutheran Society, which had commissioned it as an educational film about elder abuse and ageism. However, they had issues with the content of the film and it wasn’t seen until 2019 (and now it’s running on Shudder). People seem […]
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