Obscurity Files - Jake Speed

Never heard of the literary hero Jake Speed? Let me tell you why...

Obscurity Files - The Heavenly Kid

A movie released in 1985 that concerns a cool kid from one time travelling to another to teach a nerd how to get the girl? No, not that movie, this one.

Obscurity Files - Return to Horror High

Backing up the argument that you should never judge a film on the quality of its poster, let's take a look at George Clooney in Return to Horror High.

Obscurity Files - Don't Tell Her It's Me/The Boyfriend School

Starring Steve Guttenberg as Gus Kubicek, a lonely cartoonist in recovery from cancer, Don't Tell Her It's Me (AKA The Boyfriend School) sees his sister, Lizzie (Shelley Long), try to kickstart his life again by setting him up with journalist Emily (Jamie Gertz). The only problem is, Jamie isn't interested in Gus. She's interested in Lobo Marunga, the quasi-Aussie biker who just happens to be Gus in disguise.

Obscurity Files - Dead Heat

Take one of Saturday Night Live's biggest stars of the '80s trying to break into movies and team him up with an up and coming actor with matinee idol looks and what do you get? A cop drama that slowly reveals itself to be a gore-filled zombie comedy. When downtown LA's jewellery stores are raided by a heavily armed gang of almost indestructible men, it's up to Detectives Mortis and Bigelow (Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo) to uncover what's going on.

Obscurity Files - Valley Girl

When misfit teen Randy (Nicolas Cage) meets Julie at a high school party he wasn't invited to, they instantly feel an attraction despite coming from different worlds. He's a city rat whilst she's the titular Valley Girl, but they try to overcome the peer pressure felt on both sides to embark on a great '80s high school love affair.

Obscurity Files- Cash

That Jean Dujardin from The Artist, he's a nice guy isn't he? Well, since his success with The Artist a whole bunch of films from his back catalogue are slowly resurfacing, including Cash, his 2008 heist comedy. But is it any good?

Obscurity Files - Doctor Detroit

You know Dan Aykroyd, right? Lovely, wholesome Dan Aykroyd? Can you imagine him playing a pimp with a metal hand and a name that makes about as much sense as his decision to make Blues Brothers 2000? Well, Aykroyd doesn't care what you think. He went and did it any way.

Obscurity Files - Back to School

In this 1986 classic comedy, Caddyshack's Rodney Dangerfield, forever in search of finding some respect, heads to college to find some class and spend some time with his estranged son. Ooh, but there's a crusty old professor who objects to Dangerfield's presence on campus. Who will come out on top, I wonder?

Obscurity Files - Loose Cannons

Never heard of it? Well there's usually a good reason for that. Find out my opinion of Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd's "wacky" double act, next.

Obscurity Files - OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

What with The Artist entertaining audiences in the cinemas at the moment, I thought I'd take a look at one of star Jean Dujardin's earlier roles. It turns out that The Artist was no fluke. Join me to find out why, next...

Obscurity Files - Moon 44

From Roland Emmerich, the director of Godzilla and Independence Day, Moon 44 is the 1990 sci-fi adventure that rivals Top Gun for pure brainless machismo. Watch the trailer and read my review, next...

Obscurity Files - Buried Alive

The debut of The Shawshank Redemption and The Mist director Frank Darabont finally makes its long overdue way onto DVD and is in need of a re-appraisal. Read my review, next...

Obscurity Files - Folks!

One of those films that you'll never be able to scrub out of your memory once you've seen it, let's take a closer look at the Tom Selleck/Don Ameche "comedy" Folks!. Ladies and Gents, brace yourselves for fun...

Obscurity Files - Fear X

It is with great pleasure that I welcome a guest writer to Slacker Cinema for the first time today. Paul Martin, writer for www.filmdoom.com, gives us his appraisal of one of Nicolas Winding Refn's early films. I hope you enjoy his contribution as much as I did, and recommend you head over to Film Doom as soon as you've finished reading it.

Out in September, Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive is one of the most purely enjoyable movies I've seen so far this year. And with that automotive thriller a near-certainty to bring the Danish director to a wider audience, it seems as fine a time as any to look back at his English-language debut, 2003's Fear X.

Slacker Cinema's Big Birthday Bonanza!!

Woohoo! It's Slacker Cinema's first birthday! Well, technically it was last Friday, but I decided to give myself a well earned week off. Join me now as I take a look back at my big year of film blogging, pointing out the fun times we've had and the often unforgivable errors I've made...

Obscurity Files #43 - Men at Work

Remember when Charlie Sheen was known for being an actor rather than the carnival of celebrity scandal he's become recently? Feeling nostalgic for different times, I though I'd take a look at 1990's Men at Work...

Obscurity Files #42 - Three O'Clock High

What's Three O'Clock High you say? It's a film that not many modern audiences will have seen or even heard of, but it's a lost 80's classic of sorts. Here, let me try and persuade you...

Obscurity Files #41 - Airheads

Seeing as we did a Jennifer Aniston post the other day to tie in with Just Go With It, it seemed only fair that we dug into Adam Sandler's back catalogue too.

Let's take a look at Airheads...

Obscurity Files #40 - Leprechaun

Seeing as she's currently invading our multiplexes with Just Go With It, let's take a look at Jennifer Aniston's big screen debut.

Today, let's all say hello to the Leprechaun...