Harold Ramis (1944 - 2014)

"It's hard for winners to do comedy. Comedy is inherently subversive. We represent the underdog as comedy usually speaks for the lower classes. We attack the winners."

It's with great sadness that this week sees the closure in the chapter of one of the greatest comedic writers of the last 35 years. Harold Ramis passed away due to 'complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis', and just like that, the world of comedy feels that much smaller for it.

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Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

"This is bullshit! I want bush, pan down."

We all know the pain and anxiety that goes with starting in a new school or college. Will you make friends quickly? Will you fit in? What if everyone hates you? It is something we have to go through at some point in our youth; be it summer camp, scouts, or simply progressing through the school system. Now, imagine all of those issues, but you also happen to be the lowest member of food-chain; a nerd.

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Celebrating 30 years of Nintendo's Punch-Out!!

"Put him away!"

As this month marks the birthday of one of Nintendo's most fondly remembered arcade and console series, we will take a brief look at the original game that started it all.

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The Top Ten Exploding Heads from the 80's

There is nothing quite like a really well-timed exploding head in a film. They still give me a giddy thrill. The best ones for me were those that were not signposted by the director, and were able to knock your socks off with a bloody gush of brain matter. The crazy thing is, there are nearly too many exploding heads to even narrow it down to a top ten, and that's just from the decade that taste forgot. So I did my best, factoring the effects work, wetness and overall feel of the scene in to come up with a list I feel happy to stand by.

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The late-return fees are getting crippling.

Change is definitely a good thing. I've been writing on blogs for years, and it has always been mainly about film. As most of my friends and family know, I'm film obsessed, specifically about horror and trash genres. There was a stage where I used to watch up to around ten or twelve films a week (my mid-20's was my most excessive) but as I've gotten older, I just can't churn through them the same way I used to. The same goes for writing reviews. I can't hammer them out like I did in the old days, as it tends to take me much longer to find my thoughts on what I want to say (probably that 'getting older' business again), and hey, if you aren't going to put the effort in, then what's the point in doing it?

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Cameron's Closet (1988)

"Pray the door remains locked to... Cameron's Closet"

Not many low-budget horror films could ever truly live up to their incredible box art. It was the distributors chance to duke it out with more popular titles on the video shelf, and if you had no big names or faces to plaster across your over-sized box, then coming up with some eye popping art was the way to go. Hey, you gotta hype your own product, right? Occasionally they may have over-shot the mark, but it's the reason why the trip to the video store was always a fun time. I mean, we didn't actually expect all our rentals to be as great as Evil Dead II or Re-Animator. Taking a chance on a title like Cameron's Closet was part of the game.

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Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)

"What, do you think there's a lot of work down on the pier for hookers? Do you think I'm giving blow jobs down there to goldfish?"

Terry Doolittle lives an unusual life for a black woman in an 80's film. She has her own apartment, she goes to her tech job in the bank everyday where she shoots the shit with her co-workers until it is time to clock out. She is smart, funny, and despite the lack of romance in her life, things seems pretty good. She is also great with computers, and in the 1986, that's the equivalent of being a wizard.

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Dressed to Kill (1980)

"Thank god, straight fucks are still in style!"

A blond, mature lady stands in the shower, caressing herself sensuously with a bar of soap as the hot water pours over her body. She smiles at her lover through the fogged up glass as he shaves by the sink. She runs her hands over her breasts, sinking them lower to her crotch, each plunge of her hand sending shivers of excitement through her. Suddenly, from the steam behind her, a hulking naked man appears. He grabs her, with one hand over her mouth, and the other roughly between her thighs. She tries to scream but can't, and blood starts to pour from her violated genitals...

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