What makes a film a cult film? I struggled with this question when I wrote a short book on the film This Is Spinal Tap,... Buckaroo Banzai is basically incomprehensible. Characters, plotlines, even ...

Science fiction comedies are hard to pull off. For every Back to the Future or Ghostbusters, there’s a Howard the Duck or Evolution. The ‘80s, in particular, were lousy with sci-fi comedies, but that ...

A physicist, a neurosurgeon, a martial artist, a rock musician and a comic book hero walk into a bar. His name is Buckaroo Banzai. The savior of the eighth dimension is multitalented and never boring.

In a blockbuster landscape peddling the prequel continuity of Mufasa becoming a lion king and building entire movies (e.g., Free Guy) around references to other intellectual property, nothing has aged ...

No matter where you go, you’ll find that it’s still the 25th anniversary of cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension, released on this very day in 1984. Shall we go ...