Ticklish Biz is taking the holidays off and sharing with you some special gifts as we prepare for our special Christmas show on Holiday Affair. In the meantime, I’m sharing with … Continue Reading Ticklish Business – Doubled Features: The Blob (1958 vs. 1988)
Samantha and I couldn’t stop at listing our three favorite Twilight Zone episodes so we devoted an additional bonus episode to looking at the 1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie. Listen as we discuss ’80s … Continue Reading Ticklish Business Bonus Episode #5: Twilight Zone – The Movie (1983)
Hollywood is at its best when it’s writing about itself. Or, at least in the moment, more often they’re excoriated for how “inside” they play to mass audiences. In 1979 … Continue Reading S.O.B. (1981)
What can be written about The Shining at this point? It’s a masterpiece directed by the legendary Stanley Kubrick that tells a horror story both in the mind and outside … Continue Reading The Shining (1980)
Our second Haunted Honeymoon lives up to its title, though the “honeymoon” here is a pre-wedding trip. Directed and co-written by Gene Wilder, Haunted Honeymoon was a box-office bomb, a bittersweet … Continue Reading Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
Originally published December 5th, 2012 Oh boy. I really have to control my anger and frustration for today’s review. In a nutshell, I hated this movie. Actually hate is a … Continue Reading 25 Days of Christmas: Annie (1982)
Gorillas in the Mist tells the story of conservationist Dian Fossey, yielded actress Sigourney Weaver a Best Actress nomination, and tells a unique and thought-provoking story about a real woman … Continue Reading Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
Mr. Boogedy, which aired as part of Wednesday’s Treasures From the Disney Vault series on TCM, isn’t actually a full-fledged film. Clocking in at about 45-minutes this was aired as … Continue Reading Mr. Boogedy (1986)
Since I reviewed Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist (1982) and called it a film not directed by Hooper, why not look at one of his films? Most famously known as the helmer … Continue Reading The Funhouse (1981)
In our continued tribute to haunted houses, none bridges the gap between classic and contemporary quite like Poltergeist. Poltergeist’s 1980s horror combined with Steven Spielberg’s golden era examination of suburban … Continue Reading Poltergeist (1982)
Originally published October 13th, 2014 We’re pushing the blog’s boundaries time-wise, but with two studio era stars in the cast I can count it, right? Martin Scorsese and Alejandro Amenabar … Continue Reading The Changeling (1980)
Stories regarding the grand search for Margaret Mitchell’s Scarlett O’Hara have passed into legend. With stories of practically every actress in Hollywood during the 1930s testing for the role, it’s hard … Continue Reading Biopic Theatre: The Scarlett O’Hara War (1980)
With Lifetime preparing for a turn on the Marilyn Monroe biopic bandwagon, I figured it might be a good time to finish up a few of the remaining Marilyn biopics … Continue Reading Biopic Theatre – Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980)
This Mother’s Day we should all hug our moms…for fear they decide to beat us with a wire hanger! Mommie Dearest, the movie that’s collectively become synonymous with schlock and the … Continue Reading Biopic Theater: Mommie Dearest (1981)
The last film directed by acclaimed choreographer and director Bob Fosse, is a a bleak tale of obsession, both for fame and romance, swathed in questions regarding public persona and the … Continue Reading Star 80 (1983)
We’re jumping ahead a few decades more than the average review on this site in honor of the 1984-a-Thon Blogathon. I did, however, focus on a film with classic era … Continue Reading Romancing the Stone (1984)
