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 […]

Popeye (1980)

I have vague memories of seeing the live action movie of Popeye (1980) on Saturday afternoon TV when I was a kid. In recent memory, one of its Harry Nilsson penned songs sung by Shelly Duvall was used in PTA’s Punch-Drunk Love (“He needs me”). It was time to rewatch and more fully understand the […]

Smithereens (1982)

I’d always wanted to see Smithereens (1982), directed by Susan Seidelman, a low budget New York cult movie about punk/DIY subcultures. The headstrong protagonist Wren (Susan Berman) is brilliantly introduced stealing a pair of zebra patterned shades on the subway and handing out photocopied flyers of her face with the cut-out text “Who is this?” […]

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 […]