Category: Junk Food Cinema
Trash flicks, hidden gems, and (not) guilty pleasures.
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A Gal ‘Gunslinger’? Oh My Stars and Garters…
A harbinger of Le Borg’s The Dalton Girls, Roger Corman’s Gunslinger clouds the commonly rigid gendered rules of westerns.
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Why ‘White Water Summer’ Got Lost in the Woods
Huddled between coming-of-age melodrama, vacation fun, and back-country suspense, it’s not difficult to identify why Jeff Bleckner’s 1987 adventure film White Water Summer struggled to find its core audience.
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‘But I’m A Cheerleader’ Puts the Camp in Conversion Camp
Jamie Babbit’s 1999 comedy works to preserve its goofy tenor amidst bleak themes.
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Camp, Punk, and Goth-Rock Galore in ‘Repo! The Genetic Opera’
Despite a wild storyline and all-star lineup, Repo! has not one trace of sarcasm, self-consciousness, or so much as the smallest amount of external context.
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BMX Stunts and Budding Romance? That’s So ‘Rad’
The culmination of ‘80s cinema is, of course, the BMX dance routine in the 1986 coming-of-age sports movie Rad.