Married With Children - It's a Bundyful Life
"Married...with Children," became one
of the FOX network's first hits when it premiered on the fledgling
network in the mid 1980's. Originally part of Fox's debut lineup,
the show revolved around the life of Chicago shoeseller, Al Bundy,
his chimney smoking housewife, Peggy, and their two dysfunctional
children, Kelly and Bud.
In this spoof of "It's A Wonderful
Life," Al Bundy has to find a way to keep the promise he made
to his family. Promising them the best Christmas ever, Al has to
find a way to make up for his Christmas bonus. However when that
fails, he starts to ponder what would life for his family be like
if he never lived. After an accidental electrical shock outside
his home, Al awakens to find an angel played by the late Sam
Kinison, who wants to convince him that he needs to live.
However instead of finding a family full of
misery and grief without their father, Al discovers that his
family is living a charmed wife where Peggy cooks and cleans,
Kelly is smart and virginal, and Bud is a gentlemen. Peggy who is
married to the picture perfect husband (Ted McGinley, who later
would become a regular cast member in the role of Jefferson D'Arcy)
seems to be the happiest homemaker on this earth, and after seeing
this Al wants to live so that they will never be as happy as he
saw them.
Very funny in every sense, this series was a
pioneer for daring comedy, and being the only episode of the
entire series on videocassette, "A Bundyful Life," is a
hysterical holiday classic to watch for years to come." -- Luis Hernandez
The
Doom Generation (1995)
Superior to both Kids and Natural Born
Killers, Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation is a
snarling satire that has the emotional range to prompt rage, fear,
laughter, and grief in a viewer. Three L.A.-based, almost-twentysomethings--an
incredibly foul-mouthed Valley Girl (Rose McGowan), her puppyish
boyfriend (James Duval), and a sexy bad boy (Jonathon Schaech)--take
to the road after a series of comic collisions with skinheads and
gun-toting convenience-store clerks. While secret lawmen and
voyeuristic TV cameras follow their movements, the fugitives
gradually warm up to a three-way sexual relationship that wraps
them in a profound, renewing innocence--an innocence then stolen
by a wrathful America. Araki skewers the usual villains: the
media, homophobes, gun nuts, Gen-X stereotypes. But there is so
much more at stake here than meets the eye, an extraordinary anger
and fear about predatory intolerance and purposelessness about the
young. The DVD release includes the original theatrical trailer
and production notes. --Tom Keogh
Fright
Night
Fight Night is a classic vampire movie made in
the 1980s. William Ragsdale, one of the main characters in the
movie, is a teenager who discovers his next door neighbor, the
very sexy Chris Sarandon, is a vampire. by attempting to reveal to
the community Chris's identity, he enlists the help of an aging
film star (Roddy Mcdowell). When Ragsdale realizes that the
vampire is after his girlfriend (Amanda Bearse), he will stop at
nothing to save her, even if that means losing his life. I love
this movie! I first watched it when I was 11 and have rented it
almost every weekend after that. I am now almost 17. This movie is
classic. Chris Sarandon is the most gorgeous guy in the world. He
is so seductive! The chemistry between him and Bearse is amazing.
Ragsdale holds his own and accurately depicts the typical dramas
of teenager's lives, reacting to most situations the same. Stephen
Geofferys is also an excellent edition to the movie. Evil is a
classic outcast who relies on the vamp to relieve his pain.
AWESOME MOVIE! -- Alisa
