TheRetroCritic

I talk a bit about Season 3 of Gotham .

Classic camp 80s sci-fi doesn't get any more classic, camp, 80's or sci-fi than this little nugget! I mean you've got spaceships, magic rings, gold-winged bearded men, a planet called Mongo, a bitching Queen soundtrack... you need more? Sure this isn't very consistent to say the least: one second we're trying to follow some weird subplot in some kind of swamp jungle, the next everyone's flying around, then everyone plays American football for some reason. And all in front of the most glorious bluescreen you'll ever see. Thankfully it's colourful, creative and silly enough to keep us all entertained. Queen also help. It feels like one of those flops which  were probably hell to shoot, a nightmare to write and way too crazy for most viewers. Parts of it are pretty trippy, in a good way, and if anything it's worth seeing just for the nostalgia factor. Overall, like David Lynch's Dune , it's flawed to the point of being pretty unsuccessf

John Carpenter makes the very best of an inherently silly idea to create one of the best movie killers ever.  A personal favourite of mine, this "typical" story of boy meets car, car kills people is a lot of fun from start to finish and is probably one of Carpenter's most underrated little gems. Keith Gordon is brilliant as the nerd-turned-rebel and his growing insanity is a delight to witness. Not to mention Robert Prosky's slimy, foul-mouthed mechanic who almost steals the show by being hilariously repulsive. As far as Stephen King film adaptations go, this is one of the good ones. Carpenter's moody score and playful direction creating a slightly tongue-in-cheek but genuinely unnerving slasher movie (without any slashing). Some scenes are just ridiculously awesome like when Christine is set alight and pursues one of the piss-taking bullies down a deserted road or when the car is smashed to pieces and it fixes itself...by itself. All in all,