Miami Connection: High Kicking It’s Way Into Theaters 25 Years Later

  Earlier this year The Alamo Draft House in Austin Texas showed the first reel of a movie they bought for a measly $50. Just to give you an idea of how cheep that is, most 35mm prints go for thousands of dollars, even the bad ones. This movie “Miami Connection” from 1987 had only ever in it’s history been viewed by a few hundred people. There was never a Beta-Max,VHS, or DVD release of this film. In fact,... 

Would you see RAMPAGE?

Fan of 1980s Video Games rejoice! Or…Don’t.  

A Weird Kid’s Top 10 – Homoerotic Cartoons of the 80s

Hey everybody, it’s time to take a trip down memory lane with me this week on the latest edition of A Weird Kid’s Top 10. Today, we’re going to be discussing exactly how homoerotic many of the cartoons in the 1980s were for the people in my generation.  

LRE #17: Ice Pirates

Little Red Envelope In my mailbox this week: Ice Pirates Release Year: 1984 Staring: Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts Lets just accept it. The 80′s gave us both some of the most amazing, and the worst films to have ever been put on cellulose. A decade that produced classics like Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark, also gave use stinkers like Krull and Ice Pirates. Horrible? Yes. Awesome…... 

Morning Cup o’ Music

There will be some of you people out there that think that I’ve gone completely fucking mad by including “The Trial” from Pink Floyd’s The Wall as one of the songs used during this week of 1980s kid movies songs. But you have to understand the household in which I grew up. Yes, it was a disturbing movie but in many ways, it’s beautiful.  

Morning Cup o’ Music

Hey! Happy Monday! Welcome to 1980s Kids Movie week on Morning Cup o’ Music. Today’s track is from the movie Labyrinth and was one of many of Jim Henson’s ‘movies for kids’ that featured really scary shit. Believe it or not, this scene still manages to disturb me to this very day. The song “Chilly Down” is a drastic departure from the rest of the Bowie laden soundtrack, and... 

Teaser – RLR #2

What’s up whores of the network. Xopher here, just wanted to drop by and let you know that the overlords of the site have decided on a topic for this weekend’s Red-Light Roundtable. We will be spending a good chunk of the show reminiscing about our favorite cartoons of the 1980s. Most of the usual suspects from the badly edited inaugural episode will be making appearances as we work our way down to having...