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Tag Archives: ’80s movies
Pulp Appeal: The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Last week Matt tackled the 1982 film The Dark Crystal, one of the most impactful movies of my childhood, right up there with Stand by Me, Labyrinth, and the hundreds of action movies I devoured in the 80s and early … Continue reading
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Tagged '80s movies, dark crystal, dark fantasy, Jim Henson, muppets, tv show
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Pulp Appeal: Die Hard
Okay, let’s get the big piece out of the way. DIE HARD is a Christmas movie. Beyond the obvious (the action takes place during a holiday party), there is a sense of reconnecting with family, of finding happiness in little … Continue reading
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Tagged '80s movies, action movies, alan rickman, bruce willis, christmas movies, die hard, nakatomi plaza
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Pulp Appeal: Highlander
There can be only one! Well, that might have been true back in 1986, but Highlander, the movie featuring Christopher Lambert as the immortal Scotsman Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) spawned two other feature films, two separate live action television shows, … Continue reading
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Tagged '80s movies, Christopher Lambert, Clancy Brown, fantasy films, Highlander, Queen
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Pulp Consumption: The Dark Crystal
A race of godlike beings is shattered into two separate, disparate species when a crystal is broken. As each of the creatures ages and dies, its counterpart in the other species also ages and dies, leaving a power vacuum. The … Continue reading
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Tagged '80s movies, children's films, dark fantasy, Jim Henson
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Pulp Consumption: Big Trouble in Little China
What happens when a loud-mouthed trucker decides to help his friend rescue his friend’s fiancée, recently arrived from China? Well, you get Big Trouble in Little China, the 1986 John Carpenter film that follows Jack Burton as a definite fish-out-of-water … Continue reading
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Tagged '80s movies, action movie, chinatown, John Carpenter, kurt russell, martial arts, martial arts movie, pulp movie
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