Doctor Who thing of the day: the “Max Headroom” pirate broadcast
One of the strangest incidents in American broadcasting history has a Doctor Who connection…
1980s
Footloose (review)
I wish I could say I didn’t know why anyone would bother xeroxing a nearly 30-year-old movie, but I do know why. And it ain’t pretty.
John Carpenter’s The Thing (retro trailer)
“Found something in the ice. We need some help down here. Can anybody hear me?”
retro ad: 1980s Faberge shampoo commercial
Source of a catchphrase of the 80s. Because people loved shampoo that much.
Killer Elite (review)
grunt grunt grunt *glower* [insert mockney swearing] bash crash punch kick [insert closeup of unshaven stubble]
Drive (review)
Remember Drive Angry? (I hope you don’t.) This is not that movie. This is Drive Calm. This is Drive Cool.
retro ads: a whole buncha 1980s Kenner ‘Star Wars’ toys commercials
My brothers and I were forced to play with the kids across the street because they had a Landspeeder, and we didn’t.
retro ad: 1980s Crazy Eddie commercial
If you lived in New York in the 1980s, you could not have escaped the ads for Crazy Eddie, an electronics and home appliance chain…
retro ad: 1980s Intellivision commercial with George Plimpton
Ah, remember the days of the great Intellivision vs Atari war? Good times…
watch it: “Mac vs PC (1984 vs. 2007)”
Damn. Do PCs really take this long to boot up?
