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[TRAILER] Psychologist Maggie Burroughs (Lisa Zane), tormented by recurring nightmares, meets a patient (Shon Greenblatt) with the same horrific dreams. Their quest for answers leads to a certain house on Elm Street -- where the nightmares become reality. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 10, 2024 - 4 comments

Whether you love it or hate it or are simply confused by the fact that anybody ever made it, it's hard to be completely indifferent to this one-of-a-kind product of seventies excess, in which Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees are cast as a small town band trying to follow the example of hometown hero Sgt. Pepper to save their beloved Heartland, USA from the sinister Future Villain Band and its brainwashed minions. [more inside]
posted by Nerd of the North on Apr 24, 2023 - 37 comments

In this follow-up to the 1981 punk rock documentary The Decline of Western Civilization, filmmaker Penelope Spheeris dissects the world of heavy metal. Through live performance footage and interviews that feature popular glam metal musicians, Spheeris examines the metal genre and the decadent Los Angeles music scene of the late 1980s; highlights include Ozzy Osbourne discussing the tedium of sobriety over breakfast and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler claiming to have spent a small fortune on drugs. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jul 15, 2022 - 7 comments

Here's a thread to discuss NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert live while it airs! (And of course to chat about it afterwards, if you like.)
posted by Eyebrows McGee on Apr 1, 2018 - 88 comments