As a new baseball season begins, Sean picks the 1989 underdog sports romp Major League, starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, Rene Russo, Corbin Bernsen, and Dennis Haysbert.
Talking points: The Hunter Pence episode of Fuller House. Building a bad team. A stalker romance. Moneyball. Baseball as a form of community. Buy it/rent it/tape over it. The fall of kids sports movies. Turtles.
Lyndsey selects her VHS copy of the 1989 John Hughes film Uncle Buck, starring John Candy, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffman, Amy Madigan, and lil' Macauly Culkin.
In honor of Leap Day, we're leaping back in time to the fifties with Sean's pick, the 1957 sci-fi B-movie bonanza Invasion of the Saucer Men, about a group of dumb teenagers, dumb con men, and dumb army dudes running afoul of some equally dumb bulb-headed aliens.
Talking points: Happy Leap Day! The cover. American International Pictures. Lover’s Point. Bug-eyed aliens. Artie as an unreliable narrator. Alcoholic subtext. Uncomfortable rape humor. Why drive with your headlights off? A sleepy protagonist. Alien vs. bull. Incompetent cops. Buy it/rent it/tape over it. John Hughes.
Lyndsey selects the classic 1988 film Big, about a boy who wishes to be Tom Hanks. The film co-stars Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, and John Heard.
Talking points: A film made for adults. Josh makes a pretty great adult. Zoltar. The keyboard dance. A 20th Century Fox Selection. Is Splash a good movie? Tom Hanks talk. Penny Marshall directs. A taboo relationship. Eating baby corn. Kidnapping yourself. Wishing away your childhood. Rip-offs and body-swaps. You've Got Mail vs. Sleepless in Seattle. Buy it/rent it/tape over it. Leaping back for leap day.
Horror enthusiast Sean picks his well-worn VHS copy of Child’s Play, starring Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, and Brad Dourif as the infamous killer doll Chucky.
Talking points: Renting Child’s Play 2 as a child. Confusing franchise titles. Rambo. The slasher boom of the 80’s. A solid slasher series. Visit MGM on the web! Good Guy dolls and Turbo Man. Brad Dourif as Charles Lee Ray. Nobody believes the kid. Chris Sarandon’s frustrating car ride. Batteries included. Alex Vincent is a solid child actor. Voodoo. Messy breakfast. A slasher movie weirdly aimed at kids. Child’s Play. Child’s Play 3. Bride of Chucky. Seed of Chucky. Curse of Chucky. Buy it/rent it/tape over it. Tom Hanks.
Lyndsey selects the podcast's first animated film with 1989's Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, a troubled Japan/USA co-production that initially flopped at the box office only to later gain a cult following thanks largely to the involvement of Yutaka Fujioka, Mickey Rooney, Chris Columbus, Brad Bird, and Ray Bradbury.
Talking points: A long production history. A lot of people involved. Nemo has the personality of an eggplant. The Alice in Wonderland dream problem. Heavily cut for American audiences. A Nightmare on Elm Street. Tropicana. A strange culture mesh. The Gate. The heir to Slumberland. The cut scenes. A film that terrified Lyndsey. Imaginationland. Cruel characters. The Wizard of Oz. Sleeping with squirrels. Buy it/rent it/tape over it. Chucky.
UPROXX writer and freelance journalist Chloe Schildhause selects the Olsen Twins classic It Takes Two, starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Kirstie Alley, and Steve Guttenberg. Be sure to check out Chloe's writing at www.schildhause.com, including a very special Vanity Fair article about a certain set of identical strangers.
Talking points: A special guest. The epic tale of the Mary-Kate and Ashley Cruise. Meeting the Olsen Twins. Trailer talk. How the West Was Fun. Long Dualstar sales pitch. The Amazing Panda Adventure. The book series. Doris Day. A supernatural Parent Trap. Identical strangers. Orphan tomboy Amanda and rich girl Alyssa. Steve Guttenberg as cell phone wizard Roger Calloway. The horseback meet cute. Buff Guttenberg in a wet shirt. Escaping an evil adopted family and an evil stepmother. Vincenzo, the Jersey mobster butler. Conspiracy theories. The current whereabouts of the Alyssa Calloway painting. Food fight. The lake scene. The Butkis family. Ranking the Mary Kate and Ashley films. The wedding. Buy it/rent it/tape over it. Chloe's new projects. An oral history of Blossom. A scary children's movie. The Gate. The Witches.
