Heart and Soul-T'PAU

How about a video intermission?

How about a little heart and soul?

Coming Soon....A Nightmare on Elm Street

One two, Freddie's Coming for you

Planes, Trains and Automobiles-1987

Neal Page (Steve Martin-The Jerk, Three Amigos, The Man with Two Brains, Dead Men Wear Plaid) is pitching a sales job and when finished must travel home for the holidays. He plans his flight for right after the meeting and hopes to make it in time. Unfortunately, NY traffic totally bites.

Del Griffith (John Candy-Summer Rental, Volunteers, Uncle Buck) is also in NY and must travel back to Chicago. 

There are no two people polar opposites than these. The well gathered, conservative, traditional Page is no match for the slovenly, happy go lucky Griffith. It seems no matter what happens, their luck keeps getting worse. 

Follow the fun as they live adventure by adventure while trying to beat the clock. Thanksgiving is getting closer, but can these two strangers become friends in spite of sabotaging their chances of getting home?

Watch the fights, the fires, the theft, the creative travel, and especially deer in a very hilarious story.

Great quotes include:

Neal: Del... Why did you kiss my ear?
Del: Why are you holding my hand?
Neal:Where's your other hand?
Del: Between two pillows...
Neal: Those aren't pillows!
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a great adventure and totally gnarly John Hughes movie. It's almost fit for the entire family except for the 5 minute F-Bomb exchange at the car rental counter.

Firewalker-1986

Max Donigan (Chuck Norris-Delta Force) and Leo Porter (Louis Gossett, Jr.-An Officer and a Gentleman) are up to their necks in adventure. The first scene has them chased through some desert by a post apocalyptic looking group of rag bags led by a highly antagonized, totally gnarly badman.

They are adventure hunters and fortune seekers and no challenge is too big. If the going gets rough, they pump each other up with man cheers and take care of business with bitchin fire fights and some martial arts. They meet Patricia Goodwin (Melody Anderson-Flash Gordon) who tells them about a totally rad multi-cultural Egyptian, Apache, Aztec, Manyan treasure of gold. The adventure with  sounds too risky for the duo, but after a bar fight and some macho talk, they take on the task.

Follow them through back roads, trails, volcanoes, quicksand, bad guys and swamps of South America in their quest for gold.

Beach Balls

In Beach Balls, Charlie Harrison wants the girl, Wendy. He's wanted her for years, which he reminds himself of every new beach season. The girl doesn't notice him in the way he wants. It's totally bogus cause she just wants to be friends. She's really hot for guys in rock bands.

Charlie has a few strikes against him.

1.He plays music, but he's not in the band.
2. His mom has a strict no rock and roll policy. Yes folks, she's like ultra religious.
3. Two crooks and their trashy girlfriend keep making trouble for him.
4. Wendy's brother wants to beat him up.

So, how does Charlie get the girl? If he does, how? What magic formula will he use to gain instant rock status? Well, the formula is there, it's called an 80's movie.

Best line ever:

"I just want to be friends," says Wendy
"I can't believe you just said the F word," answers Charlie, right after the revelation.

Beach Balls is full of unknown 80's synth movie music. The band plays soft core rock versions of songs you might hear from Poison or Motley Crew.


Beach Balls is rate R for...I'm totally not sure why.

Trading Places 1983

In Trading Places Don Amechi is Mortimer Duke and Ralph Bellamy is Randolph Duke. Together they are totally gnarly super rich investors who play games with the human  tragedy. They bet that a super rich associate couldn’t make it as a poor man and that a poor man doesn’t have what it takes to be a rich man.

Louis Winthorpe III, Dan Aykroyd (Blues Brothers, Ghost Busters, Dr. Detroit) is an up and coming yuppie investor with a beautiful girlfriend and ultra yuppie frat boy friends. His world is perfect until a well orchestrated game is played by the Duke brothers. Down on his luck and out of money, he sees his world fall apart.

Billy Ray Valentine, Eddie Murphy (Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America, The Golden Child) is a down on his luck super schemer whose world suddenly changes when the Duke brothers replace Winthorpe with him.  Suddenly rich and full of investment opportunities, Valentine begins the investment game.

A series of events brings the dejected Winthorpe and the newly minted investor Valentine together. Both smelling the Duke’s rotten scheme, they come up with a plan to set things right.  They are helped along the way by a prostitute with a good head for investing, played by teens scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween franchise), and the butler.

Will Winthorpe get his job back? Will the prostitute get off the streets? Will Valentine have to go back to the streets? Find out these answers and more in Trading Places.

"Did You Hear About Ice? He won another one"

"I feel the need the need for speed"

New Cell Phone

"You're not going to believe this Thomas, I'm talking to you from a phone and there's not even a house near by. Technology T., Technology" 

Users are Losers

Do What McGruff says, take a bite out of crime...Thanks Regina

Sweet Dreams You Can't Resist N-E-S-T-L-E-S

One of my favorite commercials from the '80s.

Teen Wolf-1985

Scott Howard (Michael J. Fox: Back to the Future franchise) is just an average teenage boy right? Wrong, he’s a dweeb fer sher who doesn’t know when he’s got it made. Though the super foxy Boof (Susan Ursitti: Zapped), totally has the hots for him, Howard is in love with the beautiful, but opportunistic cheerleader Pamela (Lori Griffin: Cheerleader Camp).

It’s not until his hormones kick in that he transforms from dork to hunk and catches the eye of Pamela. Why? The family secret howls out loud: Howard is a werewolf and everyone wants him including, geeks, yuppies, the basketball team, Pamela, his best friend and the evil principal. The loser Howard can’t get anything right. But as a wolf, he howls, surfs on a truck, slam dunks basketballs, steals the staring part in a play and makes out with Pamela (yes, in full wolf personality). Soon this new man’s best friend is riding high on fame, but can it last?

Find out in Teen Wolf.

Teen Wolf is rated

Valley Girl - 1983

Valley Girl stars Nicolas Cage (Fast Times at Ridgemon High- Nicolas Coppola)  as Randy and Deborah Foreman (My Chauffer, 3:15, April Fool’s Day) as Julie. Both are high school stars in their own societies , but don’t fit into each other’s world. This movie is totally reminiscent of the gnarly trouble Romeo and Juliet, and the people in West Side storied suffered. No support from their friends.

Julie is a Valley Girl and her friends also share her pension for shopping and saying awesome, totally, tubular, gnarly and all the other valley terms. They are so into themselves and anything materialistic. On the other hand, Randy and his buddies just want to have fun and listen to music at the club.

The two cultures pass quietly at the beach where invitations to a party are loosely given. Randy’s buddy catches the address and brings Randy with. The two obviously don’t fit in, but there is bitchin’ chemistry between Randy and Deborah.

Will their love endure or will they be drawn apart by ill meaning friends? Find out in Valley Girl.

80’s hits include the smashes:

“Love My Way"
by The Psychedelic Furs

"I Melt With You"
Performed by Modern English

Valley Girl is rated R for nudity and sex scenes 

Renegades

Renegades is a totally awesome drama starring Keefer Sutherland (Young Guns franchise, Lost Boys, Stand by Me) and  Lou Diamond Phillips (Young Guns franchise, La Bamba).

Keefer plays Buster McHenry, an undercover detective so deep, nobody (not even his chain of command) knows about it. In fact, he is investigating while on vacation.  He is gnarly and unmanageable, but gets the job done.

Lou Diamond Phillips plays Hank Storm, a Lacota Indian. His family members are killed during the heist of a very valuable lance.

This totally rad movie is typical of the 80’s crime bravado genre. Young guys rule the world with total disregard of the law (even the law enforcers). Both are after the same bad guys and reluctantly team up in a disjointed effort to either kill, arrest, or handle the bad guys whichever way the stronger of the egos manages to accomplish.

This fun story has gore, blood, bullets, explosions and fire that make it a rip roaring cinematic treat. The only question observant viewers might have is “what happened to the guy in the trunk”

Renegades is rated R.

From the Hip

From the Hip is a fast paced 1987 legal comedy which stars Judd Nelson (Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire) as hotshot lawyer Robin "Stormy" Weathers. He is supported by the lovely Elizabeth Perkins (About Last Night, Big) as the caring, loving, and friend of children Jo Ann.

Stormy is a manipulator. He manipulated his first job out of law school, his first big case and the win of said big case. But he didn't work it alone. He had the cooperation and awesome scamming from his bro's: Don Monahan (Porky's I, II and III) and David Allen Grier.

Suddenly this trickster is over his head as he is assigned a murder case, based on the results of his last scam. Can his quick wit and off the hip moves help Stormy win this case? Will his scruples give him second thoughts?

From the hip is a totally 80's movie with tons of gnarly decade references including the much beloved yuppie movement.

From the hip is rated PG.

Stand By Me

Stand By Me is a coming of age story set in the innocence of 1959. While under his porch, looking for his lost treasure, Vern Tessio (Jerry O’Connell, the future superstar’s only notable 80’s movie) overhears his brother’s frantic confession of finding a human body. It seems the local teen has been missing. Vern tells his buddies and the hunt begins.

A superb caste of players make up Vern’s gang. Corey Feldman (Lost Boys), River Pheonix (Little Nikita) and Will Wheaton (Star Trek The Next Generation) portray, Teddy, Chris and Gordy. Together the four brave the elements, older boys, wild animals, ghost stories and each other to find the meaning of life and friendship. This is a hear warming story all should see.

This is a great 80’s movie, but you won’t find the 80’s here. It takes place in 1959 and is supported by songs and memorabilia of the times. In the beginning and end it flashes forward to 1986. Appearances by Richard Dreyfus (Stakeout)  and Kiefer Sutherland (Lost Boys) help make Lost Boys and iconic piece.

Stand By Me is Rated R for language.