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Funky Fresh, Munchkin Style Starring: Diana Ross, Nipsy Russell, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor

This is such an awesome movie; I can’t believe that more people don’t remember it. I have vivid recollections of watching this on Showtime when I was a kid (back then there was a box that sat on the TV, [...]

You’ve got quite a ‘tude, man! Starring: Joan Jett, Michael J. Fox, Gena Rowlands

“You’ve got quite a ‘tude, man. You should start a band and call it The Attitude.”
Yes, it’s Joan Jett, in all her macho badass self, telling off Michael J. Fox. I actually liked this film a lot, although [...]

Hey, man, you’re whacked! Starring: Philip Michael Thomas, Rosalind Cash, Vernee Watson-Johnson
No, they didn’t actually say this in the film, but I was sorely tempted to yell it at Scooter while we were watching “Death Drug.” This is the story of Mr. Tubbs from Miami Vice battling the drug WHACK– not the [...]

Here’s a plot synopsis- two guys drive around the country on choppers. They do a lot of drugs. We see the countryside fly by as Baby Boomer music pours forth. Um, what more can I say? I understand now. I understand, man! This is a movie that shaped a generation, man! Now I know why [...]

OK, Grease is the word, but what does it have to do with the movie? Starring: Olivia Newton-John, John Travolta, Stockard Channing

From the opening scene on a beach where star-crossed lovers frolic in the waves to a cheesy rendition of “Love is a Many-Splendored Thing”, to the end where they drive [...]

Starring: Agnetha, Benny, Anni-Frid, Bjorn
Until I rented this tape, I, like many other young Americans of my age, had never fully experienced the concept of ABBA. I own the ABBA Gold CD; I’ve sat and stalwartly refused to dance to “Dancing Queen” at many a nightclub, and yet I really had no idea [...]

Starring: Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, Lori Singer
Footloose (Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, Lori Singer) 3.5 cheeses 1984 Rock n Roll Imagine a town where nobody has heard of the band The Police. Nobody rocks, rolls, dances, or does anything fun at all. The main past time is playing ‘chicken’ on tractors. When [...]

Starring: Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston
Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston make the World’s Most Unbelievable Couple in a movie (I think they received an Oscar nomination for this fact) in this tale of love, betrayal, and Rock n’ Roll.
Frank Farmer (Costner) is a former government security guard who now designs security systems [...]

Starring: Justine Bateman, Liam Neeson, Julia Roberts
Justine Bateman is Jennie Lee, the valedictorian of her high school class, with two things on her mind- to rock and to roll. She also wants to have fun. She and her oddball friends have a band called Mystery, and are determined to rock their way [...]

Richard Simmons wishes he saw this much action! Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, John Travolta, Laraine Newman, Jann Wenner

When Rolling Stone bad-boy reporter Adam Lawrence (Travolta) decides to do a steamy exposee on California health clubs, revealing them to be the torried cesspolls of cheap sex and drugs that they are, he didn’t [...]

Starring: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom

This is the story of the Kelly Effect, a small-town rockin’ girl band that just wants to make it in the City of Fallen Angels, LA. The band’s frontwoman, Kelly, has a long-lost Aunt in LA with a $1,000,000 inheritance that Kelly might just get a [...]

Starring: Prince, Apollonia Kotero
The film is obviously a must for fans of The Once and Future Price (aka the artist formerly known as “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince”) but I’ll admit that Scooter and I rented it just to flesh out our new “Rock ‘n Roll” genre. Still, Purple Rain was a [...]

Starring: Tom Everett Scott, Tom Hanks, Liv Tyler
This is a happy movie. people are usually very happy in it. There is no conflict to speak of, and no bad words or nudity. I’m not saying that a movie has to have violence and swearing in order to be good, I’m just telling you [...]

Starring: Olivia Newton-John
I have a vivid memory of this movie from my childhood. There was a bomb threat at my Middle School, and the teachers herded us all into the auditorium and made us watch Xanadu while the police scoured the building for devices. While I can’t make any promises about my [...]