Possums
Possums is such a clean, wholesome film about a small town high school football program, the Nowata Possums, that is ended after over a decade of not scoring a single touchdown. The team’s announcer fills the town’s need for high school football by announcing fake games. As the excitement for the fake games builds, trouble […]
Zorro: The Gay Blade
Have you ever watched a movie or tv show with George Hamilton? Neither had I. That is, until I watched Zorro: The Gay Blade upon the recommendation of a friend. In this film, Hamilton plays two characters, twin brothers Don Diega Vega and Bunny Wigglesworth. When the famed womanizing swashbuckler, Zorro, is injured his gay […]
A Mighty Wind
If you don’t know who Christopher Guest is, go look him up right now, I’ll wait. So, you probably saw that he was the six fingered man in The Princess Bride and Nigel Tufnel, the guitarist from Spinal Tap, among a bunch of other things. After making This Is Spinal Tap, he must have loved […]
High Fidelity
Top 5 favorite movies of all time? High Fidelity makes the cut for me. High Fidelity stars John Cusack as Rob Gordon, a record store owner (as in vinyl records) and music snob. A common pastime of Rob and his employees and friends is challenging each other to name their “top five records to play […]
Cannonball Run
This film was made in the early 80s, which is why it’s rated PG despite the plethora of sexual references, smoking, and drinking that would get it, at the very least, a PG-13 rating today. That being said, it was a different time and many of us who grew up during that time not only […]
Condorman
Believe it or not, this is a Disney film that you have probably never heard of. Condorman is a story about a comic book writer/illustrator named Woody who agrees to help a Russian operative defect to the United States on one condition, that the US government builds Condorman’s gear so he can use them on […]
Stranger Than Fiction
Stranger Than Fiction is in my top 10 all-time favorite movies list. Some people think I’m crazy that I love it so much, but I just feel that this story is completely original, the cast is stellar, and Ferrel is funny, but by playing the “straight man”, as opposed to the over-the-top funny that he […]
Better Off Dead
Savage Steve Holland made some of the cheesiest, campiest, hilariously awesome films of the 80s and this is one of my absolute favorites! When Lane Meyer’s (Cusack) girlfriend dumps him for the star of the high school ski team, he believes his life is over. Having nothing to live for, he challenges the ski team […]
They Live
Ok, so you know that clothing brand OBEY? Bet you didn’t know that it was inspired by this movie. Truth. They Live is a tale, directed by John Carpenter, that follows a wanderer named Nada (strange name, I know), played by none other than Rowdy Roddy Piper of 1980s WWF fame. (World Wrestling Federation, not […]
How I Got Into College
The plot of this film revolves around the crush Marlon (Parker) has on Jessica (Boyle) and the lengths he will take to try to get into the same college she will be attending. Unfortunately, Marlon has terrible ACT scores and no extra-curricular activities or volunteer work that will help him get into the same school. […]