LD75 - Ghostbusters (1984)

Random Acts of Cinema

English - May 22, 2023 15:25 - 1 hour - 40.1 MB - ★★★★ - 13 ratings
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Today we celebrate Mike’s birthday with the rebirth of Gozer (you know: the Gozerian?) Yep, we’re watching Ivan Reitman’s all-time action-comedy classic: Ghostbusters. But can we disassociated the powerful weight of nostalgia and truly consider the legitimacy of this film as a valid entry in the Criterion Collection? Uh… no. But that’s ok, because it’s Ghostbusters.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Erle C. Kenton’s Island of Lost Souls (1932).