Junkfood Cinema
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Jeepers, ‘Creepers’, Where’d You Go So Bugnuts?
Dario Argento’s most personal film is also his most insane. According to Susan Sontag (as paraphrased by 80s All Over co-host Scott Weinberg), camp is defined…
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Nightmares in ‘Dreamscape’
The unclaimed ‘Elm Street’ franchise entry. 1984 was a very important year for genre cinema. Apart from heralding the birth of genre’s most ardent (arguably…
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The Secular Faith of Book of Eli
Walk by faith…or not! There are plenty of reasons why movies do not get their proper due upon initial release, and often the film itself bears…
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Minimum Wage, Maximum Nostalgia: Stepping Back into Empire Records
It’s Rex Manning Day Again! There is an irony to the delayed secondhand fandom of Allan Moyle’s Empire Records. Like a cardboard standee of Rex Manning,…
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Aren’t Dead, They’re in The Rock
Alcatraz is a prison, a goodly one in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons. For some, the exercise of selecting the best film…
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The Ghosts of This Movie Still Haunt Contemporary Horror
A new Junkfood Cinema episode with special guest Owen Egerton.
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Espionage-a-Trois: The Secret Sneakers Trilogy
Junkfood Cinema doesn’t trust anyone from 1992. “One cannot trust anybody these days” ‐ quips a young computer hacker named Cosmo in the 1992 film Sneakers.…
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Listen Hard: The New Relevance of Pump Up the Volume
Everybody knows you can’t remake it, but you need to rewatch it now!
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In Another Time, It Found Its Place: Revisiting Walter Hill’s Streets of Fire
Time for this Rock n Roll fable to come out of the blue shadows. It’s hard to accurately underline the reasons that certain films fail to…
