I’m a child of the 80s. I bathed in the glory of the awesome toys and amazing cartoons of the decade. While a lot of the sheen of those shows faded as I grew up, it’s okay. That’s because I’m a grown up and can understand that those things are special for what they were then and it’s hard to recapture that love and the exact feelings I had when I first discovered the cartoons.
That said, I still love the toys and still smile at everything surrounding those glory days of cartoon and capitalist infusion.
Now, while I didn’t exactly watch or love the show Jem and the Holograms, I knew A LOT of people who did. Regardless of watching or not, and certainly not having the dolls that were released, I still liked the gimmick and idea of the whole concept. I talked about it a couple weeks ago when I reviewed Teen Witch, but wish fulfillment is really, really, really important to young people. Jem certainly encapsulated that too, but it wasn’t entirely made specifically for girls. Maybe not the toys, but the show had a fairly decent mass appeal. Continue reading “Jem and the Holograms (2015)”
As a kid who did a lot of growing up in the 1980s, it was well into the 2010s before I knew much of anything about this week’s featured B-Movie Enema, Teen Witch.
I think it’s safe to say that just about everyone has had a dream of being the hottest new country music sensation, right?
“This is my happening, and it freaks me out!”
Every now and then… Every so often… The stars align and I come across a movie that may be one of the most important films of our time. If it isn’t necessarily one of “the most important” it certainly is one of the most perfect movies ever made.
