Popcorn Classics
A List of All Films Featured as 'Popcorn Classics'
100 Kilos
Plot: The rise and fall of the Freeway Boyz, These group of young men sold millions of dollars of drugs in the streets of South Central Los Angeles, and inadvertently financed a CIA private war in Nicaragua.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
This is is kind of a story about some drug dealers, and they get into some nasty business.
18 Again!
Plot: By means of an accident the soul of David and his swinging grandfather get swapped. While the grandfather's body is still in coma, he enjoys having a young body again and repairs some facts...
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
It's a delight for all ages. I can't stop laughing.
36 Hours to Die
Plot: The head of a brewery enlists his family and his bowling team to fight an extortion scheme developed by a local mobster to try to ruin the businessman and his family. The brewer's wife is a...
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
Again, it's a thriller. There's a very harrowing heart attack scene in this movie.
A Simple Twist of Fate
Plot: His life was emotionally closed off from the world, until an orphaned baby showed up at his house.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
He's made a lot of great movies. This isn't one of them. It's a good movie.
A Vow to Kill
Plot: A Tense drama tells the story of Rachel Waring the daughter of a rich man named Frank Waring. Rachel dates and gets married to a magazine photographer named Eric. She finds out on her ...
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
Now essentially this IS the Victorville Film Archive. This was in my car so this is the VFA now.
Airheads
Plot: Three band members hoping for a big break head to a radio station to play their demo tape and wind up holding everyone hostage with plastic guns when the head DJ refuses to play them.
Presented by: Ayaka Ohwaki
Ayaka's Comments
It's a fun rock'n'roll movie. And you don't have to think anything. Just watch.
Baby Boom
Plot: The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
She has, you know, inherited a baby and it's a lot of fun
Blackheart
Plot: Ray and Annette are a couple who scam, lie and seduce to get wealth from unspecting wealthy people.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
This is a...well, it's about a sexy seductress who cunningly lures the victims with her beauty.
Blade
Plot: A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
91 minutes. Again, it's always close to 90 minutes for these.
Blue Streak
Plot: A former convict poses as a cop to retrieve a diamond he stole years ago.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
This is an interesting movie, it's a lot of fun. I consider it one of the all time great popcorn classics
Blues Brothers 2000
Plot: Elwood must reunite the old band, with a few new members, and go on another "Mission from God."
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
I think it's better than the original. I'd like to see 'Blues Brothers 2014' maybe later this year
Christmas with the Kranks
Plot: With their daughter away, the Kranks decide to skip Christmas altogether until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate the holiday at the last minute.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
It's sort of an instant family classic. You've got to see it.
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Plot: A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
There's nothing new under the sun, and certainly virtual reality has been done and done to death. It all started here in 1954 with The Creature From The Black Lagoon.
Dennis Miller Live
Plot: A weekly talk/comedy show hosted by Dennis Miller. Each show starts off with a topical monologue typical of evening talk shows. After this, Dennis goes into "The Rant" in which he talks ...
Presented by: Tim Heidecker
Tim's Comments
This guy is the king of the catchphrase
Dick Tracy
Plot: The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
Today on my segment Popcorn Classics we have Dick Tracy starring Warren Beatty
Double Exposure
Plot: Roger is cruel, violent and pathologically jealous and his wife Maria is suffering for it. He hires McClure, a P.I., to follow her and confirms his suspicions. Roger pays McClure to kill Maria's mysterious lover, but he botches the job.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
This is a revenge movie. It was released by Prism Entertainment. And it is 93 minutes.
Eye for an Eye
Plot: When the courts fail to keep behind bars the man who raped and murdered her daughter, a woman seeks her own form of justice.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
This is a thriller about the search for justice in a just world and it's 102 minutes
Forget Paris
Plot: Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews, an American living in Paris, works for the airline Mickey flies on. They meet and fall in love...
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
If you loved 'When Harry Met Sally' you're going to love 'Forget Paris'
Holiday Heart
Plot: A drag queen takes in a drug addict and her daughter and helps raise the daughter.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
It's essentually a filmed play with a little more Hollywood razz-ma-tazz
How to Deal
Plot: A teenager (Moore), disillusioned by too many examples of love gone wrong, refuses to believe that true love exists. Then this new guy (Ford) comes along...
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
This is a movie about a high school student who is convinced that true love doesn't exist
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Plot: Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive and ladies' man who, to win a big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Andie Anderson covers the "How To" beat for "Composure" magazine and is assigned to write an article on "How to Lose a Guy in 10 days." They meet in a bar shortly after the bet is made.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
It's kind of a more modern spin on the classic Goldie Hawn movies
I.Q.
Plot: A mechanic romances the mathematician niece of physicist Albert Einstein, with help from Einstein and his friends.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
I remember this one. This is a good one. Yeah...I've seen this a couple times.
Jack Frost
Plot: A father who can't keep his promises, dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has the final chance to put things right with his son, before he is gone forever.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
You might say "why are we doing Christmas movies in summer?" Well the good Christmas movies are movies you can watch year round.
Jurassic Park
Plot: During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
When you put this in your video player. It starts out and you think you're watching Jurassic Park, and then it's wild - every line of dialogue is totally in Spanish.
Kuffs
Plot: George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job and his girlfriend who still is in college is pregnant. Since he can't see how he can support her, he thinks she is better off ...
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
I gotta say...this is a funny movie
Man Trouble
Plot: A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
I just bought this last week, I haven't had a chance to see it
Medicine Man
Plot: An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he's close ...
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
I saw this quite some time ago, as well. But I do remember that it was sort of an instant classic at the time
Multiplicity
Plot: A man who never has enough time for the things he wants to do is offered the opportunity to have himself duplicated.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
You'd have to agree that having 100 Michael Keaton's is not just a great idea for a movie but it would be a great idea for Hollywood
Murphy's Romance
Plot: Emma is a divorced woman with a teen-aged son who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the widowed town druggist who steers business her way. Things ...
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
The film doesn't really work
My Giant
Plot: Billy Crystal plays a Hollywood agent who stumbles upon Max, a giant living in Romania, and tries to get him into the movies.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
It's very funny to see these guys together and just look at the difference between their heights
Mystery Men
Plot: A group of inept amateur superheroes must try to save the day when a supervillian threatens to destroy a major superhero and the city.
Presented by: Tim Heidecker
Tim's Comments
That's basically a spoof of superhero movies with Hank Azaria and Ben Stiller
Next of Kin
Plot: Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
This is kind of an unofficial sequel to Dirty Dancing and Roadhouse and all the Patrick Swayze movies
Our Song
Plot: Focusing on the bonding between three girls in Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" and the choices the girls face once their high school closes down for asbestos removal.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
It's a contemporary teen movie. A coming of age tale set in Brooklyn.
Q & A
Plot: A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him in this gritty crime film.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
It was directed by the director of 'Serpico', 'Dog Day Afternoon', and 'Network'. It's not as good as any of those movies.
Six Days Seven Nights
Plot: Robin Monroe, a New York magazine editor, and the gruff pilot Quinn Harris must put aside their mutual dislike if they are to survive after crash landing on a deserted South Seas island.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
Harrison Ford delivers in this fim, it's pretty exciting.
Son of the Pink Panther
Plot: Charles Dreyfus encounters Jacques Gambrelli, who reminds him painfully of Inspector Clouseau, the man who drove him insane. With good reason: Gambrelli is Clouseau's son.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
I think it's strange that they put 3 stars on the cover when it's clearly a 5 bag quality movie.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Plot: To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.
Presented by: Tim Heidecker
Tim's Comments
It says it right on the title sequence, Star Trek IV, and then they go back to San Francisco It's not that hard to explain.
Swing Shift
Plot: A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
If you see Swing Shift you'll see the roots of Kate Hudon's comedic timing, which she learned from her mother
The Family Man
Plot: A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
This is why I set up this system - to prevent thieves
The Hangover Part II
Plot: Two years after the bachelor party in Las Vegas, Phil, Stu, Alan, and Doug jet to Thailand for Stu's wedding. Stu's plan for a subdued pre-wedding brunch, however, goes seriously awry.
Presented by: Ayaka Ohwaki
Ayaka's Comments
It was really fun
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Plot: A reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home, and the gold within it from the dragon Smaug.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
It's not on VHS, I had to actually tape this because - I don't know why - they just don't make these anymore
The Life of David Gale
Plot: A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
It's a thriller. Kind of a conspiracy movie about a professor who is accused of a murder and it's up to you as a viewer to figure out whether or not he actually did the murder, so it keeps you on the edge of your seat.
The Mod Squad
Plot: Three minor delinquints (Danes, Ribisi, and Epps) are recruited by a cop (Farina) working undercover to bust a cop/drug ring. When the officer who recruited them is killed, they go above ...
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
This was a TV show back in the day but they sort of hipped it up with some stylized characters
The Punisher
Plot: An undercover FBI agent becomes a vigilante assassin and sets out to unleash his wrath upon the corrupt businessman who slaughtered his entire family at a reunion.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
It's again a movie about war, crime, cruelty, and injustice - the four pillars of any exciting movie. It is 122 minutes.
The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella
Plot: In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Meanwhile, young Cinderella finds life drastically ...
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
Today's Popcorn Classic is a pretty interesting film. It's from 1976.
The Wood
Plot: While dealing with a friend's cold feet on his wedding day, a writer reminisces about his youth with his best friends.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
An unforgettable tale of laughs
Training Day
Plot: On his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer, a rookie cop goes beyond a full work day in training within the narcotics division of the L.A.P.D. with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
This is actually an interesting edition of Training Day in that it has an alternate ending.
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Plot: Four horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
The Twilight movies are based on books, they have nothing to do with this movie
Two Weeks Notice
Plot: A lawyer decides that she's used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him.
Presented by: Gregg Turkington
Gregg's Comments
This is a romantic comedy that I highly recommend