Yipee-Ki-Yay Mr Falcon

Everyone has THEIR Batman, depending on which one they grew up with. For our parents, it was the goofy, campy, weird, and sometimes extremely creepy Adam West groovy Batman. For a lot of us, there will be none other than the 1989 Tim Burton Batman with Michael Keaton in the batsuit. For a precious few, Val Kilmer is the defacto Caped Crusader. Then there's George Clooney. For others, nobody will replace Christian Bale's Batman in the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight trilogy. And then there's Ben Afleck. And the kids are all about the darker Robert Pattinson Batman...well...they're in their 20s now, but hey...another one will come along eventually. So many Batmen, so little time. 

For eons, the Star series knew their place. Trek was serious sci-fi, and there was a lot of it, and a huge amount of it was kinda lousy. Comparatively, for a long, long time, there were only three Star Wars movies — and then six — and most of them were pretty great. But times have changes. The Star Wars universe has been diluted by a new, awful trilogy, and myriad TV series — the majority of it all sucks. So, have the scales tilted? Is Star Trek now the objectively better universe? 

From Tyrone Power, to George Hamilton, to Antonio Banderas, and from Errol Flynn to Kevin Costner to Russel Crowe, they're two classic characters that have been on the silver screen since the beginning of film, and they both played a big part in the 1990s movie landscape. 

If you know the particular hell of working retail, or if you're currently in said hell, this episode is for you. 

What is there to say...it's one of, if not the greatest piece of American cinema ever made. It changed the way movies were made and how people thought of the organized crime in the 1940s and 50s, while also weaving one of the greatest family sagas ever put to film. Find out what it's like for some to watch this gem for the first time after 40!

A shitsplat town where the biggest attraction for the young locals is a dilapidated demolition derby track run by a super young Jamie Lee Curtis, who is in a semi-sordid love triangle with Patrick Swayze (who is married to Jennifer Jason Leigh) and C. Thomas Howell playing an 18-year-old HS grad ready to sow his oats and figure out what he wants to do with his life. That's the deal in Grandview, USA (1984). 
Oh, and the local hick-town power brokers want nothing more than to put the derby out of business, bulldoze it, and build condos, of course. This forgotten flick is a bit weird and has odd pacing at times, but it's an awesome little time capsule. 

This year is the half-century mark — the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's original summer blockbuster: Jaws. You can hear the music, can't you? It changed the way we watch movies and the way movies were made. It was full of happy accidents and success out of necessity — and it was followed by three astonishingly bad sequels, establishing yet another firm American cinematic tradition. We're talking about our love for JAWS, and we're talking about those other ones, too. 

Sometimes a director's cut is the filmmaker's vision more fully realized, sometimes it's just a bunch of lousy alternate takes and extended scenes cut back into a movie that was well paced and tight, and other times, it adds some seriously moral ambiguity that makes you feel a little queasy, even when you watch the regular version. We're talking about the child-hitman-in-training classic, Leon (The Professional). So crack that capsule between your molars and tell EVERYONE!