The film that might convince kids there was a huge arm wrestling fad that swept the nation in 1987. This was a glorious piece of Cannon fodder. Menahem Golan, the infamously hard headed honcho at Cannon Films himself, sat in the director’s chair. Not only did Golan direct Over the Top (1987); he wholeheartedly believed … Read more
Is a question no one asks, but if they did, I’d slip them this movie’s soundtrack. Judgment Night is one of those films that flew under the radar but left an outsized cultural footprint. The movie itself is a solid urban survival thriller starring Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Stephen Dorff and Denis Leary. It … Read more
We had the time of our lives. Dirty Dancing was put in the Home Video corner in January 1988, after a August 21, 1987 theatrical release. To be honest, Dirty Dancing wasn’t exactly my go-to VHS in the late ’80s, the whole “forbidden summer romance” thing wasn’t my jam. I still had a bit of … Read more