Post-War Attitudes and ‘Hair’ (1979) – Retro Review
There’s a big difference between “seeing” and “watching.” You “watch” a movie on your own, in your home, passively. You “see” a movie in a...
Category: Retro Reviews
10 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo’ (1984) – Retro Review
Even before 1984’s Breakin’, starring Adolfo “Shabba-Doo” Quinones, Lucinda Dickey, and Michael “Boogaloo Shrimp” Chambers, became one of Cannon Films’ highest-grossing movies of all-time, there...
Time Bandits (1981) and the Limits of Imagination – Retro Review
Terry Gilliam is a difficult filmmaker — stylistically, politically, personally. He’s divisive as he is beloved for movies like Brazil and The Fisher King and...
School’s In For Summer: Summer School (1987) – Retro Review
Fresh off his run on the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere and being named People Magazine’s 2nd Annual Sexiest Man Alive, Mark Harmon found himself...
When Men Don’t Listen: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) – Retro Review
The way to put an end to Fred Krueger is simple: just stop giving him your energy. Stop thinking about him. Stop worrying about him....
The Shopping Mall is Dead, Long live the ‘Chopping Mall’ (1986) – Retro Review
The younger generation of today and the generations still to come will never fully understand the cultural importance the shopping mall served in the ’80s...
A Dazzling Realisation of its Animated Source. Jeremy Carr Takes Another Look at the Wachowskis’ Speed Racer
In 1999, when writer-director siblings Lana and Lilly Wachowski released their sophomore feature, The Matrix, it was more than a mere movie. The film was...
Movies That Deserve Another Look: Akira Kurosawa’s ‘The Most Beautiful’
It’s certainly not the most characteristic film from Akira Kurosawa, nor is it by far his best. It is, however, one of the more intriguing...
‘WarGames’ (1983) Revisited: Get Your 80s Fix With this Matthew Broderick Pop-Culture Classic
The 80s is a decade packed with kid and teen friendly sci-fi and fantasy movies, hence the incredible surge of nostalgia that’s felt for that...
Sun, Scandal and Jean Seberg. Jeremy Carr Takes Another Look at Otto Preminger’s Lavish ‘Bonjour Tristesse’
It’s difficult to assess Otto Preminger’s 1958 Technicolor-CinemaScope production, Bonjour Tristesse. It may be even more difficult to appreciate it. Yet there it is, lingering...