We wrap up our summer-long celebration of the films of 1985 with this week’s Create-A-Caption, inspired by Disney’s hugely inventive — and controversial — sequel Return to Oz. Upon its initial release, the film was criticized for its very existence…
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Warning: This post might break you. For our latest Create-A-Caption, we are continuing our summer celebration of the movies of 1985 by honoring Rocky IV. In this ’80s favorite, the Cold War heats up when the Italian Stallion, Rocky Balboa…
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Celebrating its 35th anniversary this month is Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox‘s other 1985 summer blockbuster (after Back to the Future). In the film Fox portrays a high-school basketball player who discovers that his puberty has unexpected consequences — namely…
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We’ve recently been celebrating the films of 1985 here on MovieFanFare, and among the year’s best is Silverado. Director/co-scripter Lawrence Kasdan‘s rollicking salute to the Hollywood westerns of yesteryear follows four cowboys─a former outlaw (Kevin Kline), a falsely accused ex-con…
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Over the weekend, veteran character actor Wilford Brimley died at the age of 85. Although he had been working in show business since the early 1970s, Brimley’s breakthrough role was in the 1985 Ron Howard science-fiction dramedy Cocoon. The heartwarming…
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For our latest Create-A-Caption tribute to the movies of 1985, we’re focusing on Weird Science. Written and directed by John Hughes, the movie is that rare mix of crowdpleaser, box office hit and critical success. Tired of being shot down…
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Here’s the thing about movies of the 1980s, nostalgic is such a bewitching thing than even movies of the era that were considered duds the first time around have — in the subsequent decades — been re-evaluated as cult favorites….
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As we continue celebrating the 35th anniversary of notable films from 1985, we wanted to use the year’s quirkiest film — Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure — as the basis for our latest Create-A-Caption. A financial and cult success (critical, not so…
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Lately here on MovieFanFare, we’ve been spending some time looking at the films of 1985 as they celebrate their 35th anniversary this year. While flicks like Back to the Future and even George Romero‘s zombie favorite Day of the Day…
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