"Lorraine, my density has bought me to you."

Back to the Future (1985) manages to be be splendid family entertainment despite featuring a storyline involving incest and attempted rape. Of course as far incest goes, it not as if anything distgusting is actually done, Marty's mother Lorraine wants Marty really bad, of course she doesn't know that it is son from 30 years in the future. I guess Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale felt Biff forcing himself on Lorraine was needed to make George a hero, putting her in a genuinely dangerous situation for her.

Anyway, enough about the iffy parts of BTTF, you all know the story and if you don't where the heck you been?. I really like the cast in this movie all utterly memorable in their own little way. The story is strong and there's an whole bunch of exciting moments.

It's certainly the most fun time travel movie ever made and one of the best, I really liked the sequels, but this is in a class of it's own, HIGHLY RECOMMEND.

First Blood (1982) is often cited as one of the first films of the guts and glory Reagan era action film, which I feel is an unfair comment of the movie, it's certainly true of the sequels I'll give people that, but this is a story about a fractured and clearly affected ex-Vietnam vet whose persecuted by a small town sherrif department because of the way he looks.

The body count is actually extremely low ***SPOILER ALERT*** One notable death featuring a deputy falling out of an helicopter seemed to be more out of need for survival then killing the other person ***END OF SPOILER***. Sly Stallone is pretty good here, he was never the greatest of actors, the rest of the cast like Brian Dennehy and Richard Crenna are also on good form and the ending is also pretty low key considering what was to follow.

This would probably be more highly regarded today if they'd gone with the original book's ending (I won't give it away), but it's a film I really liked, so I'm going to have to I recommend it.

Empire Records (1996) is one of those films I always think as slacker films that came about in the mid 90s and features a young cast who either made it big, fairly big or not big at all, among them future Oscar winner Renée Zellweger aswell as Liv Tyler. Also in the cast is Anthony LaPaglia and Maxwell Caulfield and the plot is so slight it's barely worth mentioning, the story is basically a day in the life around a record store that's about to be brought up by a franchise.

It's enjoyable thanks to some great performances such as Brendan Sexton III and Ethan Embry and a really good soundtrack. Recommended.

A film that you can surprisingly somewhat compare to Boogie Nights in a good way is The Pornographer (1999), and is an indie production about a man who watches a lot of porn and thinks he can do a better job of directing. Despite it's showings on late night erotic slots over here on U.K. channel, the film brings up some good points but ultimately some scenes of T&A can't help but mute the point. Better then it should be, but not amazing by any stretch of the imagination.