SpaceCamp is the single greatest movie about camps about space!!!  it’s true

how? why?

cause…

Joaquin Phoenix was Leaf Phoenix and he becames best friends with a robot named Jinx (a cross between R.O.B. and Johnny Five) who fulfills his wishes of going into space by forcing the NASA computers to send him into space 

 

Lea Thompson was never more adorable (yes, even more so than in Back To The Future and Some Kind of Wonderful)

it was Tate Donovan’s first true movie role and he looked so good in ugly 80s button-down shirts and he’s so cool and he still looks like this today, and he’s still so cool

it proved that Kate Capshaw could actually act and wasn’t juss some dumb chick Steven Spielberg married

Tom Skerritt’s mustache and Terry O’Quinn’s ‘hair’

Kelly Preston’s hair and her My Little Pony eye make-up thing goings on

 

Lamar Latrell is STRAIGHT AND IN SPACE!!!!!!!!!!

the movie was actually kinda thrilling and terrifying, and probably most so cause it was made before the Challenger disaster and was released five months after it.  YIKES!!!

but mainly SpaceCamp is awesome cause it represents perhaps the final time when Americans were excited about space and camp and space camps

and in general, the movie is juss dang fun!

Casino Jack
Cash Rules/Ruined Everything Around Him
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Did you see Alex Gibney‘s Jack Abramoff doc Casino Jack and The United States of Money?  The hard facts put on display seemed to defy reality: money hungry lobbyists scamming Native Americans, exploiting sweatshops in the South Pacific, whacking Greek casino boat owners, funneling cash to feed vanity Hebrew school projects, all while shaking hands and being pat on the back by US Senators and even the dude in the Oval Office.  Head-shaking unbelievableness!!!  No writer in Hollywood could ever dream up something so preposterous, so turning all this juicy material into a feature film seems like the natural thing to do, and that’s what did done happen

Director George Hickenlooper (who recently passed away) and writer Norman Snider are up to the easy task with their own Casino Jack, and while it has the production values of an Andy Sidaris flick, the results are still entertaining enough to make for a solid companion piece to the Gibney doc… which you should see first, or instead of.  You may have had a enuff of Kevin Spacey‘s dourpussedness as of late, but in the title role here, he joyfully apes it up, and we freely eats it up!   WELCOME BACK SPACEMAN (and we’re not talkin about K-PAX)!!  The rest of the names that round of the cast may not incite riots, but Barry Pepper (as Michael Scanlon), Kelly Preston, Graham Greene, Maury Chaykin (he too also passed away recently too also!), Spencer Garrett (watch his demo reel!) and Jon Lovitz, yes, JON LOVITZ, each raise their game as the chips stack up and then fall to pieces.  B-listicious!

In The Looper: George cast his Governor of Colorado cousin John Hickenlooper as a senator

This Week’s Edition of Cutiepie McGee:

Anna Hardwick may play Lobbyist #2, but in our hearts, she’s #1!!!

Verdictgo: Jeepers Worth A Peepers

Casino gets Jacked up this Friday only in NY &LA and elsewhere elsewhen

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…