What's going on...at Nuke 'em High?

It's been a number of years since I had last seen the original Class of Nuke 'em High, but I watched it three times in the past week, because my wife fell asleep the first two times, and she wanted to finish it.

I now feel a greater appreciation for it than ever before. Of course it will always live in the Toxic Avenger's shadow, but I think it's a minor classic in its own right.

First of all, the soundtrack fucking rocks. And the monster actually looks really cool. It helps that you never really get that great of a look at it.

And of course The Cretins are fun. They're over the top ridiculous, as any badass gang in an 80s movie should be. I like that they each have their own unique look and personality. One of them is just a normal looking guy with tits (gender bending was about as outrageous as you could get at the time). I really like the girl Cretin, Muffey, who seems to be fucking all the other Cretins. She has my favorite line in the movie. "God bless America, limp dick!" Her perfect delivery is what really sells it.

And I like Warren's idiot friends, Eddie and Greg, who would be right at home in any of the millions of sex comedies that came out in the 80s.

Oh and Chrissy is so incredibly fucking hot. I remember when I first saw it thinking her nipples were really weird. I was very young and very stupid.

It does have a fair amount of plot holes, and a lot of funny sounding ADR lines but as Eddie said about the radiation in the school, "Who gives a shit?!"

#Kickboxer5 (1995)

The subtitle is "Redemption", but it's hardly that. The movie begins and already, we killed off the protagonist of the last 3 movies off-screen. WTF is this shit? This franchise seriously has no integrity at this point. Just because the star isn't able to come back doesn't mean you have to demean all their progress. I'm electing to ignore that plotpoint and assume he faked his death or some such nonsense, because he was already working for the government in some capacity in the last film.

Anywho, Mark Dacascos takes over as the lead character, but there's never any real kickboxing tournament. They talk about one, the guy refuses, they decommission him, so Dacascos seeks revenge on his behalf. He's actually a martial artist in real life, so he seems more legit than David Sloan, who never fully had me convinced that he knew how to fight. But again, no real kickboxing here, and did I mention how DTV this movie felt? The full frame, grainy video, and small scope don't do this movie any favors.

I just watched a movie called #Terminator2. Perhaps you've heard of it? Well, I read an interesting theory not too long ago in regards to people nitpicking that T2 shouldn't exist based on the events of the first movie, particularly Reese's line about them sending, "just him... and me".

When T2 starts, that idea is thrown out the window when Sarah says Skynet sent back two terminators. One could argue why they didn't send the T-1000 back to kill Sarah when she would be less prepared for it. The solution to this dilemma was actually pretty simple. Most people assume they were sent back in the order of the films: The T1 characters sent first, then the T2 characters. It actually makes sense to think of it the other way around.

Skynet sent back their best prototype to kill John directly, so Tech-Com sends back the best bet against it, a reprogrammed T-800. Then, Skynet has nothing better than a T-800, so they try sending that after Sarah as insurance, and Tech-Com has no time to set up another T-800, so they send back Reese. That could explain him not knowing about Uncle Bob.

First Look at John Waters, Bill Moseley, Lloyd Kaufman in Horror Anthology ‘Baltigore’ [Exclusive]
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Baltigore: Maryland Horror Anthology showcases historic Baltimore through a series of peculiar tales that each tackle a different horror subgrene in a different time period. We have your first look at the iconic John Waters, Bill Moseley, and Lloyd Kaufman from the indie film below. Waters stars as The Broker, a Rod Serling-esque host who guides […]
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#Kickboxer2, #Kickboxer3, & #Kickboxer4 (1991, 1992, 1994)

Following Kurt Sloan's (Van Damme) victory over the villainous Tong Po in the first movie, Tong Po kills Kurt between movies, forcing the third brother David to take his place in a quest for revenge.

David is a chill dude in LA who trains people his own gym. He even mentors some asshole kid who you want to punch in the face for acting tough all the time. People try to coerce him into fighting again, which he's mostly indifferent to at this point. But when Tong Po forces his hand and does the world a favor by killing the kid, David seeks revenge and does what a kickboxer does best.

It's a decent film despite the dumbass act of demeaning the outcome of the first film, but what are you gonna do? It was the 90s when shitty DTV-esque sequels ran rampant. Sasha Mitchell didn't strike me as a great fighter, but I grew to accept it after a while and had fun with the movie. It didn't hurt that Xian Chow (Dennis Chan) came back to mentor him, reminiscent of that Miyagi type figure that makes this into one of those Karate Kid / Rocky type stories.

When the third movie rolls around, we throw a lot of that out the window and have David and Xian head to Brazil and get caught up in a child slavery sex trafficking ring. They make friends with another asshole kid and have to save his sister from a bunch of rich pedos who force him to fight. This escalates into some forced super training that doesn't seem to make David break a sweat, because he's pretty much superhuman at this point. He turns into a terminator and stops using his feet and starts using guns after a while, but it's still pretty entertaining.

When part 4 happens, things start to go a bit downhill. Sasha is back as David Sloan, but he's the only one. Tong Po is recast by a guy with prosthetics to make him appear more Asian, a bald cap that's all too obvious in certain scenes, and an evident stunt double. David start off in jail, having been framed by Tong Po, until he's let out under an alias to infiltrate Tong's Mexico fight ring to rescue his kidnapped wife.

If Tong finds out Jack Jones is actually David Sloan, he's a dead man. Yet hilariously enough, henchman Thom Mathews introduces him in a fight as "Sloan", but the filmmakers conveniently forgot about the secret identity part and Tong Po never seemed to notice. Probably because he can't see so well with those prosthetics covering half his eyes.

There's also a 5 foot girl with juicy melons that's supposed to be depicted as a good fighter, but that's just laughable. In the end, Tong Po gets away, never to return as this era of Kickboxer sequels ends abruptly.

I feel like I'm getting afflicted with the Tromafreak syndrome in saying, "These movies are great! 6/10!"

Bruce Campbell’s ‘Ernie & Emma’ Trailer – The Horror Icon Wrote & Directed a Heartfelt Comedy
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After decades in front of the camera, horror icon Bruce Cambell made his feature directorial debut with 2005’s Man with the Screaming Brain and followed it up with 2007’s My Name Is Bruce. Nearly 20 years later, Campbell has returned to the director’s chair for a heartfelt comedy titled Ernie & Emma. Watch the trailer […]
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‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ TV Series in the Works from A24; New Film Also in Development
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A24 has emerged victorious from a months-long bidding war for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre film and television rights, Deadline reports. Strange Darling filmmaker and The Long Walk screenwriter JT Mollner is spearheading a TV series based on the iconic horror property. Glen Powell will executive produce with Dan Cohen via Barnstorm, alongside Spooky Pictures’ Roy […]
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I've been messing with styles and themes again and I re-added the "retro" theme. It looks pretty shitty on light-mode, but dark mode is pretty cool if you want to check it out.

#BlackMoonRising (1986)

A surprisingly decent flick about a thief (Tommy Lee Jones) who has to retrieve a cassette tape he stashed in a racecar. The car ends up film grain filled 1980s Los Angeles with complications arising when a woman (Linda Hamilton) steals the car he needs to get to. From then on, he gets tangled up with her crime bosses while outrunning his own set of thugs out to get him while Bubba Smith pressures him to get the tape.

It's nothing mind-blowing, but I love the aesthetic. Tommy is smooth as hell, conning his way in and out of situations, kicking some ass, getting his ass kicked, and scoring with Linda Hamilton. Only he can sport a unibrow and still get the women.

Since it's 1980s LA with Linda, I can't help but have Terminator in the back of my mind, particularly when I'm second-guessing myself if certain locations are the same ones, but also when they show the retro "high tech" stuff. The racecar in question probably looked cool back in the day, but it's kinda funny now. There's a scene in particular that seems like the basis for something I saw in a Fast and Furious movie.

TV Challenge 2026

Watch as much TV as you possibly can throughout the entirety of February and get 1 point for every minute watched.

Can be TV shows or documentaries. But no YouTube stuff.

Some possible bonus points:

If you watch an entire season of a show, in which each episode lasts over 40 minutes, you can claim an extra 50 bonus points per episode. For any show over 20 minutes, 25 bonus points per episode.

Starts today and ends on 28th Feb at 23:59 hours.