Does Darth Vader's Theme Have Its Roots in the 1930s Dance Band Era?
Vader artwork by Terry Fan for Monde Mosaic No judgment, but every time the official trailer for a new Star Wars movie was released, I ...
Showing posts with label Retro movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Retro movies. Show all posts
Why Sam Smith's New Song Is the Worst James Bond Theme Song Ever
T hree years ago at this time, Adele's "Skyfall" -- the theme for the new James Bond movie in 2012 -- was getting lots of r...
Pumped for Peanuts
Am I the only one I know who's planning on seeing The Peanuts Movie when it opens in theaters in a few weeks? When I mentioned my ...
Movie Review: Elvis and the Beauty Queen (1981)
Ever since Elvis Presley's death in 1977, there have been more movies made about him then you can shake a stick at. According to IMDb...
Young Don Johnson Was Ridiculously Smoking Hot
Male heterosexual readers of Go Retro, you may want to turn right around and go back to where you came from -- there's nothing for yo...
GoRetroPamela Gets Peanutized
(Auto-correct wants to write I've been penalized.) So this is supposed to be me in a Peanuts cartoon -- I know, the resemblance is...
The Power of the Do Over
One of my favorite movie quotes of all time is from City Slickers -- a flick that I neglected to put on my "10 Films That Have St...
Bacon, Anyone? Why Miss Piggy Is the Most Annoying Muppet Ever
Growing up on The Muppet Show in the '70s, I figured out right that Miss Piggy was never going to be my favorite muppet. While Fozz...
Movie Review: I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
I was not prepared to find I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! as funny as I did. For starters, despite it starring Peter Sellers, I had never...
Sake To Me: Western Celebs in Bizarre Vintage Japanese Commercials
It's no secret that the Japanese are big fans of Western celebrities, which means their commercials that feature them are often una...
Ten Favorite James Bond Theme Songs
Although the release of the new James Bond flick Spectre is only three months away, we still don't know yet who will be recording th...
Movie Review: John and Yoko: A Love Story (1985)
Musician biopics run the gamut from the very good ( Ray ) to the very awful ( Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story ). Most of them follo...
Movie Review: The Identical (2014)
Do you ever stop to think about what may have become of Elvis' twin brother had he lived? No? Well, not to worry, because someone in ...
Studio 54 in the Suburbs: A Look at One Reader's Grooving '70s Abode
I'm willing to bet that if you visit sites like Go Retro, one of your dreams is to live in a mid-century modern home of your very own...
The Hills Are Still Alive With the Sound of Music
A couple of years ago I tried watching that piece of pap that NBC produced and heavily promoted--a live television production of The Soun...
Movie Review: The Music Never Stopped (2011)
Congratulations to J.K. Simmons on winning his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Whiplash at last night's Academy Awards. I had never ...
Ten Films That Have Stayed With Me
Oscar Sunday is here again, and some of us may have seen a list posted on Facebook called "Ten Films That Have Stayed With Me", ...
Technology That Rocked Our World in the '80s
In 1986 Neil Diamond proclaimed, "We're headed for the future and the future is now!" During the '80s the future was in...
The Weird World of Walter and Margaret Keane
The day after Christmas I went to see the new Tim Burton film Big Eyes starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz as Margaret and Walter Kea...
Movie Review: Kopfstand (1981)
It's the holiday season, and nothing puts me in the Christmas spirit like seeing an Austrian art house film about someone thrown into...
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