Tag: 1989

• Cult Classics: UHF

  

  Who doesn’t love Weird Al? I know I do: the first record I ever independently bought was In 3-D in 1988 from a flea market when I was 6. I’ve lost a lot of great vinyl albums over the years due to either lending them out or as break-up casualties, but there is no vinyl […]

  Mike Gray

  November 20, 2022

  cult, film

  1989, comedy, cult, UHF, Weird Al

• Perfect Movies: The ‘Burbs

  

  If there are two things I love in this life, it’s comedy and living in the suburbs. The comedy part is easy enough to understand: because funny things are funny. But why the suburbs? For one, I’m neither a city nor country mouse: I’ve lived the rural life and found it boring and very briefly […]

  Mike Gray

  April 1, 2017

  American culture, culture, film

  1989, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, culture, film, Perfect Movies, suburbs, The ‘Burbs, Tom Hanks

• Intruder

  

  OK, so the film begins by panning down from the opening credit moon to a square-looking grocery store (not one of those hip ones that are all the rage these days). Inside the store, we cruise the aisles via shopping cart cam. Just another day in the dumpiest part of town as our probable protagonists […]

  Mike Gray

  October 25, 2016

  film, horror, humor

  1989, comedy, horror, Intruder, review, synopsis, z-grade