johnlink ranks NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (1986)
This was a tough one to rank. It’s not easy to look at something like this and compare it to, say, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. I wonder if I’ll regret some of the relatively high scores I gave this when...
View Articlejohnlink ranks CRITTERS (1986)
It’s been awhile since I’d put on a silly horror film of this sort. This was New Line’s answer to the previously successful Gremlins. Except, in this flick, the small soft furry things ARE the enemies....
View Articlejohnlink ranks STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (1986)
I watched the first three STAR TREK films from April through May of this year, and then took a long hiatus. Not my fault, you see. My DVR print of STAR TREK IV was actually STAR TREK VI, so I had to...
View Articlejohnlink ranks TOP GUN (1986)
I didn’t anticipate watching Tom Cruise twice in two days. But then I got a call asking me to act in some kind of TOP GUN trailer parody about which I know nothing except that it involves motion...
View Articlejohnlink ranks RAW DEAL (1986)
It has been a hectic August, to say the least. Haven’t watched much of anything, but needed something mindless for the evening. RAW DEAL is one of the few 80s Schwarzenegger films I had yet to see. I...
View Articlejohnlink ranks ALIENS (1986)
It has been a very long time since I have seen ALIENS. I will say that it looks so much better on Blu Ray than it did on the old pan-and-scan VHS I got out of the library in high school. The version I...
View Articlejohnlink ranks SHORT CIRCUIT (1986)
I was sure I had seen SHORT CIRCUIT somewhere along the way during my misguided youth. But as I watched this with my son today, I realized that I have never seen it front-to-back all the way through....
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