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Dead Heat

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:28:37 -0500

What's funnier than undead cops? Well, a lot of things.

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:32:40 -0500

The future is all about tubes, at least according to this 1989 comedy.

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:00:00 -0500

Tagline:"A hilarious look at high risk, true love, and a hill of beans."Plot:Like many young people, Nancy...

Wed, 08 Sep 2004 16:00:00 -0400

Plot:In the waning days of the Cold War, the KGB operates an imitation American town designed to acclimate agents to American...

Wed, 04 Feb 2004 16:00:00 -0500

The new Midwood mall has all the advantages that '80s consumers expect from modern shopping. Some, such as the ribbon-cutting-ceremony promise of...

Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:00:00 -0400

To compete in the chain-dominated world of fast food, young burger-joint proprietors are often forced to rely on cheap gimmicks. For example,...

Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:00:00 -0500

As The Runnin' Kind opens, its staid, WASPy hero (David Packer) is copping to the validity of stories involving himself and "girl punkers,...

Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:00:00 -0400

Tapping into the debating mania of the late '80s, 1989's Listen To Me stars Kirk Cameron as a chicken-farmer's son who was so poor, as he...

Wed, 07 Aug 2002 16:00:00 -0400

A textbook case of schlock imitating life, 1989's No Holds Barred casts wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan as a WWF superstar who, as the film...

Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:00:00 -0500

Building on Shirley MacLaine's pioneering work in making belief in reincarnation seem like the exclusive domain of New Age oddballs,...