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Cinema

1989 Flashback: The Dream Team

The appeal is not just watching these eminent actors each given the green light to chew scenery under the guise of mental instability (although one can’t help but enjoy that aspect of the production). The real appeal of The Dream Team might just be the way these actors make us feel on screen together. 

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1980's Flashback Cinema

1989 Flashback: Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

Without getting into a much broader philosophical debate about placing films in their appropriate context, some movies are merely a reflection of contemporaneous pre-evolved attitudes and some movies are just plain gross — that’s Kinjite.

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1980's Flashback Cinema

1989 Flashback: Deepstar Six

DeepStar Six has the distinct honor of being the first “terror from the deep” film to reach the 1989 box office — making Leviathan, The Evil Below, The Rift and The Abyss nothing more than simpleminded pretenders to the throne… of first into the water. DeepStar Six is the jerk kid that yells, “Last one in the water’s a rotten egg!” as he’s already jumping into the lake.