80's

Excavating through the vastness of television history to feature programs from broadcast past that were critically maligned and/or lost on the way to home video.

  Newave! Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s by Michael Dowers (Editor) Fantagraphics Books Seems like the malaise of 1970s America inspired a lot of people to take matters into their own hands and create art outside of the mainstream. This was certainly true of the underground music scenes that were percolating on both coasts …

80’s robot is a promising movie theme to begin this column. Basically any movie with this combination could fit in the Best-Worst category but I’ve managed to narrow it down to the three most satisfying. Rocky 4 (1985) Directed Sylvester Stallone. Like the Godfather trilogy, the Rocky series seems to have poor connotations with anything …