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The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

Rating: ★

Oct 8, 2005Star Wars Variety Show

The tv special that George Lucas would have all copies destroyed, a work of legendary badness - a Star Wars Thanksgiving special featuring most of the original cast and a series of variety performances that are mind-boggling in their ineptitude, not to mention complete and utter fumbling of everything that Star Wars was

Director: Steve Binder

Actors: Art Carney, Harvey Korman, Beatrice Arthur, Harrison Ford, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 October 200515 December 2023 by Roog

Rock and Rule (1983)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 17, 2003Animation/Post Holocaust Talking Animals/Occult Rock Music

Promisingly ambitious animated SF film that tries to catch some of the trippy qualities of Heavy Metal where the impressive quality of animation is let down by a juvenile story about a rock band in a post-holocaust future

Director: Clive A. Smith

Actors: Don Francks, Susan Roman, Paul LeMat, Dan Hennessey, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 February 20039 March 2020 by Roog

Care Bears Movie 2: A New Generation (1986)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 3, 2001Animation/Cute Talking Bears

The second of the Care Bears films, light, insubstantial and rather sweet as pre-adolescent creatures of indeterminate gender romp around in their cloud kingdom banishing bad feelings

Director: Dale Schott

Actors: Pam Hyatt, Cree Summer, Bob Dermer, Alyson Court

Category: Fantasy

3 June 200119 July 2021 by Roog

The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland (1987)

Rating: ★★

Apr 19, 2007Animation/Cute Talking Bears

The third of the Care Bears film conducts a crossover with Alice in Wonderland, although it is an adaptation that is liberal in its treatment of Lewis Carroll to say the least

Director: Raymond Jafelice

Actors: Bob Dermer, Dan Hennessey, Colin Fox, Keith Knight, …

Category: Fantasy

19 April 200711 February 2026 by Roog