1984 was a very crowded year for movies. Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gremlins, Star Trek III. So, it was inevitable movies were going to be missed. The Last Starfighter is one that got overlooked at the box office. It’s very 1984 in its plot, where
There are times when TV shows go beyond their medium and explode into something else entirely. For audiences of 2026, it’s hard to explain just how huge The X-Files were in the 90s. There’s nothing like it today, and the reboot of 2016 didn’t land with
If you want one movie to blame for the 80s fascination with the teen sex comedy, 1982’s Porky’s is the movie to blame. It was the fifth biggest hit of the year. And even bigger in the early days of the home video market. The movie draws its
There are times movies can be a little too weird for their own good. 1984’s The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is one of those movies. Peter Weller is the title character who’s a rock star, scientist, surgeon, and just about anything else you can
Airplane! remains one of, if not, the greatest comedy ever made. Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker’s follow-up of Top Secret! in 1984 is also on that list. It’s a send up of both Elvis and spy movies starring Val Kilmer as Nick Rivers. It was Mr. Kilmer’s first
This is going to sound hard to believe. But it’s all true. Carrot Top was once such a big star in the 90s, he got his own movie. 1998’s Chairman of the Board. It’s his only movie, and there’s no mistaking why. Carrot Top, as you
You know what a lot of people say during English class? “I don’t like Shakespeare”. Most people haven’t seen one of Kenneth Branagh’s adaptations. Because if they did, they would have a new love of Shakespeare. 1993’s Much Ado About Nothing will make you a Shakespeare
We’ve talked before about Hollywood executives of the 90s not understanding comic books, and specifically Batman. The Shadow was one of those attempts to capitalize on Batman. Another was 1996’s The Phantom. It’s another example of people running studios thinking Gen-Xers of the 90s were just
Shall we play a game? In 2026, we are faced with the growing intrusion of AI into our lives. In 1983, before the public knew anything about AI, WarGames warned us about the consequences it could pose. At the time, it was more about the Cold War and how easily
Conspiracy theories have always been a part of the American experience. For whatever reason, we like to believe there’s always something sinister behind events. Step back to 1991 for a moment. The country was on the verge of 30 years since John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. And along
There’s a reason criminals fear the night. That reason is Batman. It’s hard to explain in 2026 the impact Batman had in 1989. People were going to movies just to see the trailer, and then leaving before the main feature. All the internet outrage about things now cannot
Raise your hand if you remember My Boyfriend’s Back. Yeah, not many of you. These days, zombies are all the rage in movies and tv shows. But in 1993, they were still something of a rarely used trope. Released by Disney’s Touchstone Pictures brand, it’s a movie