My Bodyguard

Great 80's feel good movie featuring Chris Makepeace, Matt Dillon, Adam Baldwin and fresh appearance by Jennifer Beals.

License to Drive

Fun 80's cutup movie featuring the Coreys. Look for a young Heather Graham as well.

Oxford Blues

Oxford Blues is a classic 80’s sleeper and an outstanding 80’s movie. It’s not one you will soon see on late night TV or on the syndication circuits. This movie deserves a better showing and a broader audience.

Oxford Blues stars Rob Lowe (St. Elmo’s Fire, Class, Youngblood) as Nick De Angelo, Ally Sheedy (Breakfast Club) as Rona, Amanda Pays as Lady Victoria Wingate, Julian Sands and Colin Firth.

Vegas parking attendant De Angelo hits the jackpot. But is his luck enough to win him the love of his dream girl Lady Victoria Wingate. With only enough dough to pay for one year of Oxford tuition he flies across the pond. There, he single mindedly pursues the Lady and threatens his enrollment and status among the many students who try to befriend him.

Like many 80’s movies this has a back story involving a sport and De Angelo comes in as a last hope and instant celebrity. But will he risk a rowing championship, friends, and Oxford tuition for just a few hours with his dream girl?

Oxford Blues is rated PG-13

The Wild Life

The Wild Life is a fantastic teen movie from 1984. I thought of the movie shortly after reviewing Weird Science and remembering Mitchell Smith, who plays the raspy voiced Wyatt. In The Wild Life, Smith portrays Jim Conrad a teen loner who easily identifies with a misunderstood Vietnam Veteran (Randy Quaid). In 1984, I was a teenager myself and remembered how cool Conrad’s character had seemed. He smoked, drank and cussed, all before his 16^th birthday and wasn’t accountable to anyone.

Eric Stolz (Mask, Some Kind of Wonderful) plays Bill Conrad a high school grad on the way to college man. As he transitions to the collegiate life, he breaks of with his girlfriend Anita (Leah Thomson of Back to the Future, Red Dawn), gets a new apartment, and becomes interested in his younger brother Jim’s well being; all in the name of responsibility.

However, he just can’t quit best friend Tom Drake (Chris Penn of Footloose, All the Right Moves). When they rent an apartment together, it’s anything but responsible.

After remembering the movie, I tried hard to find it online, in video stores and among friends. The Wild Life is available in VHS, Laser Disk and Beta from some online sources. I found a copy to review and discovered an enjoyable flick. The reason that it is not widely available on DVD is the similar reason facing many movies being converted to DVD; licensing. So, in the name of awesomeness, Eddie Van Halen, composer of the soundtrack, please release the rights and make this movie available. If not… “it’s casual”.


Great lines include: 


"It's casual"


"As soon as they see you're afraid, you're dead."


Warning: This movie may lead to more headbutting. Many learned to do so the first time it came out.


This movie is rated R for everything.

Weird Science

Weird Science is a classic 80s teen angst movie with mega opportunities to get inside the character’s heads. But, what else would you expect of a John Hughes movie. Especially with the alumnus Anthony Michael Hall (Breakfast Club, Vacation, Sixteen Candles).

Hall plays Gary Wallace and Ilan Mitchell Smith (The Wild Life) plays Wyatt. Together they are two spazes who don’t seem to fit in anywhere. No friends other than each other and only fantasies for girlfriends, they follow the course and do what any red blooded American boys would do; they create their own girlfriend. Now they are on top of the world and The Dudes to know. But, such fame comes with a price.

Kelly LeBrock plays Lisa, the bogus duo’s creation. Instead of following any lame orders, Lisa takes over their plans and their future of spectacular popularity in a “model knows best” role. She takes them to the right clubs, the best parties, dresses them in awesome clothes and puts them in righteous cars (Ferrari and Porsche). On their way to instant popularity, they have to learn a few lessons and stand up to parents, bad guys, bikers and rogues.

Weird Science also stars Robert Downey Jr., Bill Paxton and an incredibly young cast of future Hollywood heroes.

Incredible dialog includes:

Wallace describing the woman he wants to create:

“I want her to live. I want her to breath. I want her to aerobicize.”

Eightees culture includes All Dave All the Time with David Lee Roth, DataLife 3x5 floppy disks, references to Phil Donahue, and the Memotech computer. The classic battle of computer geniuses is well captured as Wyatt battles the Air Force for computer energy dominance over the dial up modem connection.

I rate this movie four alligators for great theme, cast and Oingo Boingo’s theme song of the same title.

Bad language and brief nudity gives this movie a PG-13 rating. 

Sixteen Candles

Classic lines from gnarly movies

Samantha: This is Farmer Fred.
The Geek: Ted.
Samantha: Oh, I'm sorry, Farmer Ted.
The Geek: I'm not really a farmer. I'm a freshman.

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