Retro Review: THE ICE PIRATES (1984)

Retro Review: THE ICE PIRATES (1984)

Come with me, dear Outposter, as we travel back to a simpler time, and a happier time. It was a time before the internet. It was a time when one of the most important places in a young Outposters life was almost certainly the local video emporium. These magical places...
Retro Review: THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974)

Retro Review: THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974)

The Parallax View (1974) stars Warren Beatty. It has themes of conspiracy, paranoia, and ends the way movies from the 1970s often end. All The Parallax View lacks to make it a quintessential 1970s movie is satanism…and maybe Farrah Fawcett. But is it any good? Let’s...
Retro Review: THE INTRUDER WITHIN (1981)

Retro Review: THE INTRUDER WITHIN (1981)

Some movies stick in a person’s brain like a spiny egg. One such movie aired on network television in the early 1980s and distracted kids from Pac-Man for at least two hours…with commercial breaks, of course. This movie was an Alien knock-off titled The Intruder...
The Most Rewatchable Movies Of All Time

The Most Rewatchable Movies Of All Time

I remember a time when movies got rewatched by me. Movies rented from the video store got watched twice on the day of rental, and then one more time the next morning before they had to be returned. I am not sure what happened. At some point, I got old, became...
Retro Review: COBRA (1986)

Retro Review: COBRA (1986)

Way back in 1986, Canon Films released one of their true timeless masterpieces of action cinema, Cobra. A young 11-year-old Shawn sat in the theatre and basked in the violent glory of Lieutenant Marion “Cobra” Cobretti blowing away mooks like it was cool (which it is)...