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The 1993 date on these ads is a tad outside what I’d been thinking of as “retro” for Thursday’s retro TV ad web video of the day: I’d previously not featured anything newer than the 1980s. And that will continue to be the case here (for a while, at least). I’m making an exception for … more…
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a couple of weeks, since the news broke: Shout! Factory will be releasing Max Headroom on DVD. Finally! Don’t go looking to preorder the set, though: it’ll be a while before we see anything. From the Shout! Factory press release: Production has begun to develop a wide … more…
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read unless you’ve seen the episode!
It’s Thursday, so it’s time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week: Max Headroom, the brilliant 1987-8 American TV series that introduced cyberpunk concepts to a mainstream audience more than a decade before The Matrix… or would have, if anyone had watched it. (If you have a … more…
Kinda cheap-looking and with a quasi-indie, ‘who gives a shit if we ever make any money’ attitude that Miramax and The Blair Witch Project have all but wiped from the face of studio filmmaking, 1984’s Repo Man reminds us that once, not so long ago, weird-ass movies were not verboten in Hollywood. Deadpan humor, throwaway visual jokes, and oblique political and social satire may have doomed this way-cool flick to the neverland of sci-fi cultdom, but it has good company there, like its similarly themed contemporaries The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and the TV series Max Headroom.
Amusing, but it never approaches the deliriousness of A Fish Called Wanda.
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