Just One Of The Guys (1985)

Another movie poster I remember seeing in video stores, Just One Of The Guys (1985) is an eighties teen movie with a high concept twist: Terri (Joyce Hyser) wants to be a journalist and is passed over for a summer internship at a newspaper by her teacher’s sexism, so she decides to go undercover as […]

Band Of The Hand (1986)

Band Of The Hand (1986) is a Michael Mann produced action flick that I’d long heard about. Our heroes are five teen delinquents who are taken from juvie and thrown into the Miami swamps to learn self-value and survival skills through the tutelage of a Vietnam war vet named Joe (Stephen Lang from Don’t Breathe […]

The Legend Of Billie Jean (1985)

All I knew about The Legend Of Billie Jean (1985) was the title and the Pat Benatar song ‘Invincible’ (Theme from The Legend Of Billie Jean), which was used in the first season of Netflix’s GLOW. Helen Slater is the lead character living in a small Texas town who comes to her brother’s defence (a […]

Foxes (1980)

I bought a cut-price copy of the vinyl soundtrack to Foxes (1980) because the music was produced by Giorgio Moroder, featuring his synthesizer score as well as plenty of post-disco tunes and FM-radio-ready rock songs he worked on (the Donna Summer tune ‘On The Radio’ was a big hit from the movie and the instrumental […]