Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987) is heartwrenching and amazing.


Apparently this has been doing the rounds as a “must-see” cult movie for a while, but it’s one that I couldn’t remember hearing about until it was literally shoved into my eyeballs. If I heard of it before and paid it no heed it was probably because it was about The Carpenters and Anorexia, neither of which I have any more than a passing interest in, and because when mainstream critics rave about something being strange that normally means it’s rather dull. I was wrong, and if you haven’t seen this yet either then here is why you should watch it now.
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Rock Odyssey (1987)


Time for a properly obscure bit of animation from director Robert Taylor ad the Hanna Barbera studio. There is a proper “production hell” story that accompanies this film, with it being finished in 1981 and then put on hold till a new section was added (by a different team) and it got it’s first screening in 1987. Never released for home viewing, and only broadcast a handful of times, if you want to watch it you’ll need to go to Archive.Org and forgive the quality/AV-Sync issues.
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Tuff Turf (1985)


Do you like 80s high school movies? Do you like 80’s comedies? Do you like 80s Romeo-and-Juliet stories? What about “rich kid gone bad”, vigilante, “fish-out-of-water” comedies, or 30s big-band-revivals? Well do we have a treat for you! Not only do we have James Spader and Robert Downey Jr showing that they were once young, but practically every mid 80s teen cinematic trope thrown into one two hour long mega-mix of double denim fashions and ozone-layer destroying hairstyles.
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