The Movie:

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The 1989 metaphysical comedy-drama Dream a Little Dream marks the end of two brief eras in Hollywood: the body-switch boom (Vice Versa, 18 Again, etc.) and the reign of the Two Coreys (Haim and Feldman) as box-office up-and-comers.

Bobby (Corey Feldman) and Lainie (Meredith Salenger, from The Journey of Natty Gann) collide into each other in a backyard and get knocked out at the same moment that an old couple, Coleman (Jason Robards) and Gena (Piper Laurie), are experimenting with some vaguely...Read the entire review

THE FILM:

Some of my favorite screenings of late have been discovering new (to me) titles released by studios like Shout! Factory, Arrow Video, Kino and Lionsgate as collector's editions designed to please genre fans. Lionsgate continues to add to its "Vestron Video Collector's Series" line, which seeks to honor the 1980s home-video distributor by, according to the studio's Facebook page, releasing "a line of classic films across all genres just the way you remember them, but better;" with an emphasis on original artwork, restored transfers and newly produced extras. One of the newer entries is Steel Dawn, a dystopian thriller from Lance Hool that stars Patrick Swayze. Released in 1987, the same year Dirty Dancing made him a star, Steel Dawn bombed at the box office and is certainly not a film most...Read the entire review

The Movie:

The 1986 flick The Wraith is a supernatural action mishmash whose cult following is one of those I-guess-you-had-to-be-there things. The film is weird, but it's not quite weird enough to be visionary. The film is bad, but it's not quite bad enough to be a laugh riot. The filmmakers and actors are constantly making unexpected choices, but these often just lead to viewer befuddlement. It's prime fodder for something like the How Did This Get Made? podcast, so it's fitting they did an exemplary episode on the film in 2017.

In a nutshell, the film concerns the arriv...Read the entire review

The tagline reads "they're not staying down there anymore!" How can you call yourself a Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller without the whole 'Underground Dweller' part of the deal? I guess that'd technically make Bud a C.H., but that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue that same way.

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