At the movie November 18th 1985

Nov 19th 1985 St. Catharines, you could catch To Live And To Die In LA, A Nightmare on Elm Styreet Part 2: Freddy's Revenge, Meryl Streep in one of the few films she didn't get a freakin' Academy Award nomination for, Emilio Estevez's That Was Then This Is Now, Matt Dillon and Gene Hackman in Target, or the still running Back to the Future for only $2.50. I guess that was the movie's way of competing with the "Continuous Non-Stop Action" over at Sugar's nudie bar.

Friday the 13th Part 5 Briefly Banned

35 years ago, Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning, was briefly banned by the Ontario censor board.

1995 Academy Awards

Talking pigs, missing cards, and sex offenders abound at the 1995 Academy Awards.

Tim Burton's BATMAN (1989) 30th Anniversary

The local theatre landscape was sure crowded the weekend Tim Burton's BATMAN premiered thirty years ago today. You had Indiana Jones, those fellows who busted ghosts, Star Trek, Hulk Hogan, Robin Williams, Rick Moranis, Roger Rabbit, Kevin Costner, and Terry Gilliam.

Perfect time to look back on BATMAN (1989) video, done around the time of the movie's 25th anniversary.

 

"Shivers" (1975) - Night of the Living Sex Zombies

"Friday the 13th Part 6 - 8" (1986 - 1989) The Series' Silver Age

"Friday the 13th Part 1 - 5" (1980-1985) The Series' Golden Age

The most shocking thing about the FRIDAY THE 13th series, is that the story begins in 1958. That's sixty years ago! Only 13 years after World War 2 for crying out loud. 

Ironically, although FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 5 is called THE NEW BEGINNING, it's actually the last chapter of the series first era, a time period I like to think of as the Golden age. From part 6 onward, FRIDAY THE 13TH goes in a radically different direction, creatively, tonally, even technically.