Netflix is continuing to roll out its celebration of iconic films, this time turning the page to 1984.
As part of the streaming platform’s “Milestone Movies: The Anniversary Collection,” Netflix has unveiled the 1984 films celebrating their 40-year anniversary in 2024 with classics like “Footloose” and “Sixteen Candles” alongside Oscar contenders “Amadeus” and “Iceman.”
The Milestone Movies hail from Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, and Sony — the distributors that license content to Netflix.
Starting today, April 1, 2024, Netflix subscribers can revisit Brian de Palma’s erotic noir “Body Double” and Kevin Bacon’s breakout performance in “Footloose.” How about a double feature? There’s also “Repo Man” and “Beverly Hills Cop,” streaming just in time for franchise reboot “Beverly Hills Cop: Axle F” out this summer.
In addition to the cinematic celebrations in your Netflix queue, in-person special screenings of select films will continue at the Paris Theater in New York and Los Angeles...
As part of the streaming platform’s “Milestone Movies: The Anniversary Collection,” Netflix has unveiled the 1984 films celebrating their 40-year anniversary in 2024 with classics like “Footloose” and “Sixteen Candles” alongside Oscar contenders “Amadeus” and “Iceman.”
The Milestone Movies hail from Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, and Sony — the distributors that license content to Netflix.
Starting today, April 1, 2024, Netflix subscribers can revisit Brian de Palma’s erotic noir “Body Double” and Kevin Bacon’s breakout performance in “Footloose.” How about a double feature? There’s also “Repo Man” and “Beverly Hills Cop,” streaming just in time for franchise reboot “Beverly Hills Cop: Axle F” out this summer.
In addition to the cinematic celebrations in your Netflix queue, in-person special screenings of select films will continue at the Paris Theater in New York and Los Angeles...
- 4/1/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The first two seasons of "Seinfeld" have a bit of a rocky start. There are some undeniably brilliant episodes in those early days, such as "The Chinese Restaurant," "The Phone Message," and "The Deal," but it was not until season 3 that basically every single episode was an absolute banger. It is not uncommon for shows to take a bit of time to find their footing. How many times have you heard, "Once it gets to this episode, the show gets really great," in your life? Too many to count, I'm assuming. "Seinfeld" is no exception there.
Season 3 makes it seem like it was very far into the run of "Seinfeld" that it got good, but the first and second seasons only had 17 episodes combined. This was their first full order, 23-episode season. The cast and the writers were still massaging who these characters were and their relationships with one another,...
Season 3 makes it seem like it was very far into the run of "Seinfeld" that it got good, but the first and second seasons only had 17 episodes combined. This was their first full order, 23-episode season. The cast and the writers were still massaging who these characters were and their relationships with one another,...
- 10/15/2022
- by Mike Shutt
- Slash Film
"Seinfeld" is one of the best comedy shows of its era, possibly all time. For what it's worth, Indiewire has "Seinfeld" listed third out of 65 on its list of the funniest television comedies ever. Like "Friends," "Seinfeld" radically reinvented television comedy in a way that is impossible to replicate. With the shift toward streaming, prestige comedy, and shorter, more contained episodic arcs, "Seinfeld" is a relic of its era that endures decades later because there is so little out there quite as funny. Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld didn't just strike gold — they invented it.
Famously qualified as a "show about nothing," fans know how that moniker barely grazes the surface of how well David's absurd sensibilities meld with Seinfeld's observational comedy. Famous episodes like "The Chinese Restaurant" have the core quartet waiting to be seated for dinner. "The Soup Nazi" is a pop culture perennial that everyone knows.
Famously qualified as a "show about nothing," fans know how that moniker barely grazes the surface of how well David's absurd sensibilities meld with Seinfeld's observational comedy. Famous episodes like "The Chinese Restaurant" have the core quartet waiting to be seated for dinner. "The Soup Nazi" is a pop culture perennial that everyone knows.
- 9/28/2022
- by Chad Collins
- Slash Film
Small thief and parolee Max Dembo is pinned in a parole system that all but guarantees he’ll go back to robbing banks and jewelry stores. Dustin Hoffman has one of his best and most unusual roles, taken from the story of a real bank robber. Directed by Ulu Grosbard, the docu-drama look at the seedy side of Los Angeles is graced with a perfect cast: Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh, and Kathy Bates. Sure, the rotten parole officer drives Dembo back to crime, but pulling jobs is in his blood. It’s one of the best portraits of a criminal ever.
Straight Time
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1978 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 114 min. / Available at Amazon.com / Street Date September 29, 2021 / 21.99
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh, Rita Taggart, Kathy Bates, Sandy Baron, Jake Busey.
Cinematography: Owen Roizman
Art Director: Dick Lawrence
Film Editors: Sam O’Steen,...
Straight Time
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1978 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 114 min. / Available at Amazon.com / Street Date September 29, 2021 / 21.99
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh, Rita Taggart, Kathy Bates, Sandy Baron, Jake Busey.
Cinematography: Owen Roizman
Art Director: Dick Lawrence
Film Editors: Sam O’Steen,...
- 1/15/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Every once in a while a movie makes me think, ‘this one’s too good to review, just tell them to see it and they’ll understand.’ John Cusack is a penny-ante small stakes cheat, his girlfriend Annette Bening hooks on the side while seeking a partner for ‘long cons,’ and his mother is an operative for the Mob, placing large bets at the race track to manipulate the odds on select horses. Each worships the ‘left-handed form of human endeavor’ and depends on it to the degree that human trust just can’t be maintained. Paramount’s plain wrap re-issue touts the film’s four Oscar nominations; the Stephen Frears film is the best adaptation yet of a Jim Thompson crime novel.
The Grifters
Blu-ray + Digital
Paramount
1990 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 110 min. / Street Date July 27, 2021 / 13.99
Starring: John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening, Pat Hingle, J.T. Walsh, Noelle Harling, Charles Napier,...
The Grifters
Blu-ray + Digital
Paramount
1990 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 110 min. / Street Date July 27, 2021 / 13.99
Starring: John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening, Pat Hingle, J.T. Walsh, Noelle Harling, Charles Napier,...
- 9/7/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Barbara Ann Gutman, a longtime Hollywood production accountant whose résumé includes Dick Tracy, The Birdcage, Primary Colors and seven seasons of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, has died. She was 61.
Gutman died Oct. 8 in Santa Monica from complications after suffering a major health trauma and was surrounded by family and friends, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Born on April 27, 1958, Gutman's career spanned three decades in film and TV production, starting as an assistant accountant in 1986 on Vamp, a horror pic that starred Chris Makepeace and Sandy Baron. Other movie credits include ...
Gutman died Oct. 8 in Santa Monica from complications after suffering a major health trauma and was surrounded by family and friends, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Born on April 27, 1958, Gutman's career spanned three decades in film and TV production, starting as an assistant accountant in 1986 on Vamp, a horror pic that starred Chris Makepeace and Sandy Baron. Other movie credits include ...
- 10/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Barbara Ann Gutman, a longtime Hollywood production accountant whose résumé includes Dick Tracy, The Birdcage, Primary Colors and seven seasons of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, has died. She was 61.
Gutman died Oct. 8 in Santa Monica from complications after suffering a major health trauma and was surrounded by family and friends, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Born on April 27, 1958, Gutman's career spanned three decades in film and TV production, starting as an assistant accountant in 1986 on Vamp, a horror pic that starred Chris Makepeace and Sandy Baron. Other movie credits include ...
Gutman died Oct. 8 in Santa Monica from complications after suffering a major health trauma and was surrounded by family and friends, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Born on April 27, 1958, Gutman's career spanned three decades in film and TV production, starting as an assistant accountant in 1986 on Vamp, a horror pic that starred Chris Makepeace and Sandy Baron. Other movie credits include ...
- 10/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Reviewed by Kevin Scott, MoreHorror.com
Vamp (1986)
Written by: Richard Wenk, Donald P. Borchers
Directed by: Richard Wenk
Cast: Chris Makepeace (Keith), Robert Rusler (A.J.), Dedee Pfeiffer (Allison), Sandy Baron (Vic), Gedde Watanabe (Duncan), Billy Drago (Snow), Grace Jones (Katrina).
Sometimes some pretty influential stuff by some pretty talented filmmakers has to season into its own. After being around long enough to see something make its debut, fall into obscurity for a couple of decades, be lovingly put on life support by loyal fans, and then rise like a phoenix to the accolades it deserved all along, I’ve got some perspective. That perspective is more than affirmed with “Vamp”. This 1986 horror comedy was well ahead of its time, and was influential in more ways than one.
Vamp had the pedigree of being a New World Picture. That may or may not seem obscure, but Cannon and New World...
Vamp (1986)
Written by: Richard Wenk, Donald P. Borchers
Directed by: Richard Wenk
Cast: Chris Makepeace (Keith), Robert Rusler (A.J.), Dedee Pfeiffer (Allison), Sandy Baron (Vic), Gedde Watanabe (Duncan), Billy Drago (Snow), Grace Jones (Katrina).
Sometimes some pretty influential stuff by some pretty talented filmmakers has to season into its own. After being around long enough to see something make its debut, fall into obscurity for a couple of decades, be lovingly put on life support by loyal fans, and then rise like a phoenix to the accolades it deserved all along, I’ve got some perspective. That perspective is more than affirmed with “Vamp”. This 1986 horror comedy was well ahead of its time, and was influential in more ways than one.
Vamp had the pedigree of being a New World Picture. That may or may not seem obscure, but Cannon and New World...
- 10/25/2016
- by admin
- MoreHorror
If you read our "Class of 1986" issue of Deadly Magazine from earlier this year, then you know Richard Wenk’s Vamp is a film that is near and dear to my horror-loving heart. The 1980s were an exceptional time for vampire-themed cinema, with films like Fright Night, The Lost Boys, Near Dark, and The Hunger immediately capturing the imaginations of filmgoers during that era. But the one film that has been grossly overlooked over the last 30 years has been Vamp, and it’s great to see Wenk’s incredibly clever and funny take on a very popular sub-genre celebrated in grand fashion with the recent Special Edition Blu-Ray release from Arrow Video.
For the uninitiated, Vamp follows college students Keith (Chris Makepeace) and Aj (Robert Rusler), who are desperate to move into their fraternity house to escape dorm life, but before they can start packing their bags, they’re tasked...
For the uninitiated, Vamp follows college students Keith (Chris Makepeace) and Aj (Robert Rusler), who are desperate to move into their fraternity house to escape dorm life, but before they can start packing their bags, they’re tasked...
- 10/20/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Richard Wenk's 1986 horror comedy is even better than we remember -- funny, reasonably scary, and stylish. Grace Jones' vampire queen is intimidatingly strange, and great makeup effects and polished direction insure that the jokes and chills get equal attention. Vamp Blu-ray Arrow Video 1986 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 93 min. / Street Date October 4, 2016 / Available from 29.95 Starring Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron, Robert Rusler, Dedee Pfeiffer, Gedde Watanabe, Grace Jones, Billy Drago, Brad Logan, Lisa Lyon. Cinematography Elliot Davis, Douglas F. O'Neons Makeup Effects Greg Cannom Editor Marc Grossman Original Music Jonathan Elias Written by Richard Wenk story by Wenk, Donald P. Borchers Produced by Donald P. Borchers Directed by Richard Wenk
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
There's a lot of love for '80s pictures out there, mainly because the kids who went to see them back in the day are now in their forties and are beginning to feel pangs of nostalgia,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
There's a lot of love for '80s pictures out there, mainly because the kids who went to see them back in the day are now in their forties and are beginning to feel pangs of nostalgia,...
- 10/4/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Nick Aldwinckle Oct 25, 2016
Fancy some horror? We've been taking a look at the discs of Ghoulies, The Burning, Psychomania and more...
“Have you ever heard a frog scream?”, the tag-line to George McCowan’s 1972 ecological horror Frogs (out now on Arrow Blu-ray) should have read. Indeed, for any of you readers that have ever been rudely awoken at 2am by the sound of a traumatised frog being gifted to you by your pet cat/furry psychopath, an amphibian cry of terror is probably the second worst sound there is (behind, of course, Kaiser Chiefs).
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Not that frogs themselves are inherently evil, though viewing this classic dose of seventies green-themed nastiness might convince you otherwise. Slugs are Ok, too, though we’ll get on to them later on in this month’s vague...
Fancy some horror? We've been taking a look at the discs of Ghoulies, The Burning, Psychomania and more...
“Have you ever heard a frog scream?”, the tag-line to George McCowan’s 1972 ecological horror Frogs (out now on Arrow Blu-ray) should have read. Indeed, for any of you readers that have ever been rudely awoken at 2am by the sound of a traumatised frog being gifted to you by your pet cat/furry psychopath, an amphibian cry of terror is probably the second worst sound there is (behind, of course, Kaiser Chiefs).
See related Will Arnett confirms more Arrested Development Arrow's Stephen Amell stars in Lego Batman 3 Dlc trailer
Not that frogs themselves are inherently evil, though viewing this classic dose of seventies green-themed nastiness might convince you otherwise. Slugs are Ok, too, though we’ll get on to them later on in this month’s vague...
- 10/3/2016
- Den of Geek
Anyone who knows me knows that I have some seriously mad love for the 1986 horror comedy cult classic Vamp, directed by Richard Wenk and starring Chris Makepeace, Robert Rusler, Gedde Watanabe, Sandy Baron, Grace Jones and the delightful Dedee Pfeiffer.
While I'm still unsure of just how I talked my mom into renting Vamp for me in the first place, I can distinctly remember every single moment of the very first time I took this often overlooked gem home from the video store. While there had been several vampire movies in that era of genre filmmaking that I really loved as a kid, I always felt like Vamp was something totally different and weird- and I liked that.
For those of you who've never seen Vamp (last time I checked, it was on Netflix Instant), the movie follows two college kids named Keith (Makepeace) and Aj (Rusler), who have to...
While I'm still unsure of just how I talked my mom into renting Vamp for me in the first place, I can distinctly remember every single moment of the very first time I took this often overlooked gem home from the video store. While there had been several vampire movies in that era of genre filmmaking that I really loved as a kid, I always felt like Vamp was something totally different and weird- and I liked that.
For those of you who've never seen Vamp (last time I checked, it was on Netflix Instant), the movie follows two college kids named Keith (Makepeace) and Aj (Rusler), who have to...
- 4/30/2013
- by thehorrorchick
- DreadCentral.com
In an effort to get into a fraternity two friends, Keith (Chris Makepeace) and Aj (Robert Rusler) travel to the ‘wrong side of town’ to find a stripper to hire for a college party. Taking along the nerdy Duncan (Gedde Watanabe), simply because he has a car, they find that beneath the already seedy surface lies an even seedier underbelly of vampires in the After Dark strip club. The club is run by the sleazy Vic (Sandy Baron) and the star attraction is the frightening Katrina (Grace Jones).
Vamp boasts a cast of cult eighties stars, including Robert Rusler (Weird Science, Thrashin’), Chris Makepeace (Meatballs), Gedde Watanabe (Sixteen Candles) and Deedee Pfeiffer (That’s right, Michelle’s sister) and the inclusion of the iconic and extravagant Grace Jones as a key vampire/stripper also represents a pretty inspired piece of casting.
The premise is also pretty fantastic for a film of this type,...
Vamp boasts a cast of cult eighties stars, including Robert Rusler (Weird Science, Thrashin’), Chris Makepeace (Meatballs), Gedde Watanabe (Sixteen Candles) and Deedee Pfeiffer (That’s right, Michelle’s sister) and the inclusion of the iconic and extravagant Grace Jones as a key vampire/stripper also represents a pretty inspired piece of casting.
The premise is also pretty fantastic for a film of this type,...
- 2/21/2011
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Arrow Video continue to endear themselves to all fans of cult and old school horror with yet another gem of a release in the slinky form of the 80s bloodsucker “Vamp”. Infamous mainly for its starring the one and only Grace Jones, one of the most terrifying creatures every to stalk the planet, in the lead, the film is a strange and somewhat obscure, though very welcome choice for the re-release treatment. The film is definitely one to stir memories of anyone who spent many of their formative years trawling video shops for genre fun, with an awesome cast that includes Chris Makepeace (“Meatballs”), Robert Rusler (“Nightmare on Elm St 2”), Dedee Pfeiffer (“House 3: the Horror Show”) and Sandy Baron (“Leprechaun 2”), not to mention sinister character actor Billy Drago. As usual, Arrow have pulled out all the stops, with the usual gorgeous custom DVD box art and collector’s booklet,...
- 2/3/2011
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
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