Netflix’s big cinematic gimmick for 2024 is what are calling “Milestone Movies” — films that were released in years that have big anniversaries. They already did a whole collection of 50-year-old titles from 1974; this month they are uploading a group of more than 20 titles that were originally released to theaters in 1984. 1984 … Read more
I didn’t care for the recent reboot of “The Exorcist” and didn’t like what they did with the legacy character of Chris McNeil, poor little Regan McNeil’s mother from the original 1973 film, but I loved seeing Burstyn, now 91, seizing the movie by the throat for the brief time she was onscreen. Ian McShane, beloved from … Read more
Raw Deal remains Arnold Schwarzenegger’s most obscure action films of the eighties. But, does it deserve a little more love? Arnold Schwarzenegger made a whole slew of classic 80s action movies. Still, one remains totally obscure despite being released smack dab in the middle of his amazing The Terminator to Predator run of movies from … Read more
The 80s Horror Memories docu-series continues its journey through 1988 with a look at the original Chucky movie, Child’s Play JoBlo.com recently launched a new weekly documentary series called 80s Horror Memories, where each year of the 1980s has five episodes dedicated to it. Looking back at 1980, we discussed Maniac, Dressed to Kill, Alligator, Friday the 13th, The Shining, Prom Night, … Read more
We take a look back at one of the biggest hit movies of the 1980s, Crocodile Dundee, starring Paul Hogan. How does it hold up? Let’s jump back to the year 2020, infamously known now as the year of Covid-19. One Friday morning, I’m at home, doing my work, when I get a phone call … Read more
The ’80s were known for many things. The myth of trickle-down economics, unfortunate hairstyles, those darned Ninja Turtles, just to name a few. But in no era in American movies was there a more fruitful and entertaining trade in that great cinematic tradition, the big screen bully. If our heroes were the underdogs then there had to … Read more
The 80s Horror Memories docu-series continues with a look at the 1987 sci-fi action classic Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger JoBlo.com recently launched a new weekly documentary series called 80s Horror Memories, where each year of the 1980s has five episodes dedicated to it. Looking back at 1980, we discussed Maniac, Dressed to Kill, Alligator, Friday the 13th, The Shining, Prom Night, and The … Read more
1988’s Shoot to Kill, starring Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Clancy Brown and Kirstie Alley, is a lost 80s action gem. Recently, I wrote an article about movies that were surprisingly hard to find on streaming or Blu-ray, and one of the movies I mentioned was a little-remembered 1988 thriller called Shoot to Kill (aka Deadly … Read more
Movies and TV shows have always found ways to partner with cereal companies as part of their promotional strategy. It actually kind of makes sense. The box sits in someone’s pantry or on the breakfast table every morning giving the movie or TV show title plenty of time to become engrained in the consumer’s head. … Read more
The 80s. It has given us so much in pop culture. From the best Saturday Morning Cartoons (yes kids, the best cartoons used to only air on Saturday mornings), the greatest action figure series of all time, and some of the most quotable movies. You can’t talk about 80s films without thinking of movies like … Read more