Where To Next?

I am just going to preface this by saying that I do not like the idea of remakes. Usually an unnecessary exercise, they remake classic movies or TV shows and do a terrible job. They remade Footloose for fuck's sake, FOOTLOOSE! A classic, one of the best movies that the 80s has to offer and they decided to remake it. How dare you disrespect Kevin Bacon like that. I refuse to watch it. And don't get me started on British/Australian TV shows that America has to remake. Can you not just enjoy the original series of Skins? Why does everything have to be Americanised? So anyway, getting back on track, I wasn't super excited when I first heard that Ghostbusters was getting a revival. It sounded like a gimmick to have an all-female cast and I wasn't sure about how it would turn out. I really wanted to see it though because after it came out it seemed like people had some really good things to say about it, and they turned out to be right. Ghostbusters was hilarious. It...

I love 80s movies. Pretty in Pink, St Elmo's Fire, Dirty Dancing, Footloose, Cocktail, there are so many good (and so bad they're good) movies from the 80s. Of course, having been born in the late 80s myself, I have discovered them later, and so have missed out on some cult classics. While anything with Molly Ringwald or an amazing dance sequence lasted the test of time, these other films that have slipped through the cracks and been lost in that colourful decade are bewildering at best, unwatchable at worst. UHF falls into the former category. UHF has the bizarre factor, where you ask yourself 'what the hell is happening?' at certain points throughout. Luckily, it's made watchable by balancing this out with lots of funny moments and a surprisingly good plot. It also has a great cast, with appearances from a young Fran Drescher and Michael Richards. The story revolves around George Newman (Weird Al) who finds himself unemployed after he is fired fr...