Kung-Fu Master was my first lesson in corporate ambition. This game was hard; nigh-on impossible for any coin-loaded juvenile with a pixelated glare.
I must have been five years old when I first laid eyes on it, and King Kong couldn’t have dragged me away. Remember, this was the 80s, and Kung-Fu Master was quite the novelty, a complex and fluid […]
The Final Chapter is something of a landmark in the ‘Friday’ series, but not for the reason most would have imagined. Back in 1984, this was advertised as the final instalment in the franchise, one in which the irrepressible Jason Voorhees ‘finally met his match’ […]
By the early 1980’s Linda Blair’s career had kind of hit the skids.
A former child model who would shoot to fame in William Friedkin’s horror classic The Exorcist, her sweet-faced innocence had long since faded, replaced instead by wanton drug abuse, high profile arrests, and a brief fling with womanising, crack tooting funkster, Rick James […]
Back in the 1980s a trip to the video store was an experience in itself.
In a era before widespread graphic design, movie production companies relied on a more traditional art form in order to promote their pictures, employing canvas artists to turn their predominantly low-budget VHS Vehicles into the kind of visual spectacular that would leap off the shelves amidst an oversaturated market […]
Pat Morita would receive an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Mr Miyagi, and The Karate Kid is very much his movie, a low-key production that would capture the hearts of a generation. Morita was formerly a comedian most famous for his perfunctory role as Arnold in […]
In the same year that rookie director James Cameron took the box office by storm with his iconic character The Terminator, another sci-fi legend was born.
The brainchild of direct-to-video maestro Charles Band, Trancers didn’t do well at the box office, or even make it there for that matter, but in spite of its financial shortcomings it is truly one of […]
