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High Fidelity Film Celebrates Two Decades of Music and Misery

High Fidelity Film Celebrates Two Decades of Music and Misery

Staceyby StaceyAugust 31, 2024March 9, 20250

High Fidelity has the distinction of celebrating two milestone anniversaries this year. Nick Hornby’s bestselling novel, published in 1995, is celebrating 25 years. The film, …

Looking Back at My So-Called Life

Looking Back at My So-Called Life

Staceyby StaceyMay 25, 2023January 11, 20251

Every person alive since TV became mainstream has a show that they would hand to aliens to show them what it was like to be a teenager. For me, that show is My So-Called Life. Let’s look at it with 25 years of hindsight.

GLOW in the Dark – How a Late Night Ladies’ Wrestling Show Taught Me Girl Power

GLOW in the Dark – How a Late Night Ladies’ Wrestling Show Taught Me Girl Power

Staceyby StaceyApril 26, 2023April 20, 20251

    I am a certified child of the ’80s. I’m in that sweet spot just between Gen X and Millennial, so I mainly observed …

Rumble in the Cabbage Patch: The Cabbage Patch Kid Craze

Rumble in the Cabbage Patch: The Cabbage Patch Kid Craze

Staceyby StaceyDecember 22, 2022January 11, 20250

One of the staple toy lines of the ’80s was Coleco’s Cabbage Patch Kids line. Every girl I knew as a kid had at least …

Ten Classic Halloween Commercials That Haunt Our Memories

Ten Classic Halloween Commercials That Haunt Our Memories

Staceyby StaceyOctober 26, 2022April 17, 20252

I love commercials. I always have. My mom told me that when I was a kid, I’d spend a lot of time during shows gathering …

Universal Monsters: A Retrospective in Toys

Universal Monsters: A Retrospective in Toys

Staceyby StaceyOctober 5, 2022April 6, 20251

Like most toy collectors, I have a few collections within my overall toy collection. One of those collections is monster toys. Though technically Halloween season …

My Summer of Batman

My Summer of Batman

Staceyby StaceyJune 21, 2022April 17, 20251

Thirty years ago this month, Batman hit theaters and kicked off a summer of Batmania from which many of us didn’t recover. Most people I …

Home for the Holidays: Another Thanksgiving Movie

Home for the Holidays: Another Thanksgiving Movie

Staceyby StaceyNovember 24, 2020December 3, 20240

When thinking about Thanksgiving movies, the one that always comes to most people’s minds is Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. I love that movie, but there’s …

Defining “Fair is Fair” in 1985 Films

Defining “Fair is Fair” in 1985 Films

Staceyby StaceyJuly 30, 2020January 11, 20251

Every time I see a list of movies that came out in certain years in the ’80s, I’m amazed, and 1985 is no exception. So …

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at 50

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at 50

Staceyby StaceyOctober 25, 2019June 3, 20230

It’s hard to believe that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid turns 50 this month. This film is one that is definitely of its time, but …

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