What if I told you that there was a magical movie that combined mind-blowing stunts, rock and roll, wizards, the devil and Phil Hartman’s film debut? That might much too good to be true but it all came together in 1978’s Stunt Rock, possibly the greatest movie ever made.
Read MoreOne of you kind souls paid me to experience Rattle and Hum, U2’s unintentionally hilarious, oft-mocked exercise in delirious self-parody.
Read MoreOne of you kind souls paid me to experience a retro Full Moon cheese fest about rock and roll, alien invasions, video vixens, disc jockeys and some seriously shitty monsters.
Read MoreIt’s Passenger 57 but with Marilyn Manson knockoffs in the wonderfully stupid direct-to-video sequel Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal, a Hot Topic Die Hard in the air with Rutger Hauer as a Satan-worshipping suicidal Vietnam veteran pilot with a weakness for classical music.
Read MoreThe groaning portentousness of U2: Rattle and Hum made me appreciate what “Weird Al” Yankovic brings to the pop music world in a whole new way.
Read MoreOur epic exploration of the cinematic work of David Bowie hits another low point with his cameo in the insufferable, music geek wish fulfillment fantasy Bandslam, which takes place in an alternate universe where knowing about music history makes you sexually irresistible to beautiful women.
Read MoreAs part of a patron-funded deep dive into the complete discography of video vixen Tawny Kitaen, I experienced the glorious lunacy of the 1986 melodrama Crystal Heart, which is essentially a hair metal take on The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, only infinitely stupider and more ridiculous.
Read MoreOur reader-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie begins with Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 masterpiece about a space alien that comes here to save his family and planet but just ends up getting drunk and watching TV.
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