1984 – Movie Mavericks Podcast

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Starman (1984) – Review

February 9, 2021January 25, 2021 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1984, Charles Martin Smith, jeff bridges, john carpenter, Karen Allen, Richard Jaeckel, Starman

Director John Carpenter turns away from the horror genre that made him famous and instead focuses his immense talent on

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Sheena (1984) – Review

July 14, 2016 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1984, Beastmaster, conan, Donovan Scott, John Guillermin, Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass

Sheena: Queen of the Jungle reminds me a lot of another blonde comics hero that also made its way to

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Purple Rain (1984) – Review

May 23, 2016 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1984, albert Magnoli, Apollonia Kotero, Clarence Williams III, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos, Prince, Purple Rain

With the recent passing of musical icon Prince, Warner Bros. and Cinemark theaters have teamed for a one-week engagement of

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Top Secret! (1984) – Review

May 5, 2016 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1984, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jim Carter, Lucy Gutteridge, Omar Sherif, Top Secret!, Val Kilmer

Directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, the creators of Airplane and The Naked Gun series, spoof World War

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Cannonball Run II (1984) – Review

March 14, 2016 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1984, burt reynolds, Catherine Bach, Dean Martin, Dom DeLuise, Frank Sinatra, jackie chan, Jamie Farr, Jr., Marilu Henner, Richard Kiel, Sammy Davis, Shirley MacLaine, Susan Anton, Telly Savalas, the cannonball run, The Cannonball Run II

The wheels have finally fallen off of the car-themed pictures of one-time box office king Burt Reynolds. The Cannonball Run

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Flashpoint (1984) – Review

October 14, 2015 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1984, Flashpoint, Kris Kristoffferson, Rip Torn, treat williams, William Tannen

Long before Cormack McCarthy and the Coen Brothers collaborated on the Oscar-winning classic, No Country for Old Men, a similarly

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Supergirl (1984) – Review

May 23, 2014March 24, 2015 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1984, Brenda Vaccaro, Faye Dunaway, Hart Bochner, Helen Slater, Jeannot Szwarc, man of steel, Marc McClure, Mia Farrow, Peter Cook, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, Supergirl, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Supergirl is from the same producers behind the Superman series, but this second-rate spin-off has none of the magic or

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The Evil That Men Do (1984) – Review

September 17, 2012 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1984, charles bronson, Death Wish 2, john glover, Joseph Maher, Julius Caesar, Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects, messenger of death

The Evil That Men Do is a slow building film that plays loose with logic and even looser with probability.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) – Review

July 18, 2012 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1984, a nightmare on elm street, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Johnny Depp, Lin Shaye, Robert Englund, Ronee Blakley, wes craven

Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street is perhaps most fondly remember for giving cinema two lasting icons, Freddy Kruger

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Beverly Hills Cop (1984) – Review

July 6, 2012 Jason Rugaard 2 Comments 1984, beverly hills cop, Bronson Pinchot, Don Simpson, Eddie Murphy, jerry bruckheimer, John Ashton, Judge Reinhold, Lisa Eilbacher, Martin Brest, Paul Reiser, Ronny Cox, Steven Berkoff

Eddie Murphy is Axel Foley, a brash street wise Detroit detective who shakes up posh Beverly Hills in his quest

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Missing In Action (1984) – Review

October 14, 2010August 22, 2012 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1984, cannon, Chuck Norris, good guys wear black, James Hong, Joesph Zito, M. Emmit Walsh, Missing In Action, Missing in Action 2: The Beginning, red scorpion, the expendables 2, the president's man 2

One of the first ‘Let’s bring our boys, back’ Vietnam action fantasies from the 1980s. Missing in Action beat Rambo: