Tag: Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Vintage Cable Box: “Twice Upon A Time, 1983”
“Do I get the job, or should we move right onto the shark infested waters test?” Twice Upon A Time, 1983 (Lorenzo Music), Warner Bros. There are strange creatures that appear at night when you sleep. The strange creature bring you sweet dreams. Sometimes those strange creatures, the Figmen of Imagination, are thwarted or subverted…
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Vintage Cable Box: “Romancing The Stone, 1984”
“What’d you do? Wake up this morning and say, ‘Today I’m gonna ruin a man’s life!’?” Romancing The Stone, 1984 (Michael Douglas), 20th Century Fox Romancing The Stone begins as a story-within-a-story, the perils of Angelina and her love-interest, Jessie. She exacts revenge on the evil Grogan, while Jessie dispatches Grogan’s equally-evil brothers. Together they…
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“Movies At The Colonial”
It was in a rotten part of town; the high-crime, low-rent section of South Philadelphia now known as Lower Moyamensing. The place has cleaned up considerably since (had to be about thirty years) but the old Colonial is no more; demolished in 1989. It looked like a palace in 1910 when it first opened. All…
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VINTAGE CABLE BOX: “The Big Chill”, 1983
“Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can’t come.” The Big Chill , 1983 (Kevin Kline), Columbia Pictures It’s bizarre and more than a little morose when I think about the fact that I am older than the central characters in Lawrence Kasdan’s classic coming-to-terms-with-things epic,…