Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995)

These days, the only thing that powers me through each miserable day after another is nostalgia. The endless search to hold onto what makes me feel most like myself. That's all that means anything anymore in my broken little brain. I have no sense of objectivity left at this point, but who gives a shit?

This is a coming of age adventure tale which feels like Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer transposed to modern times. Set in 1980, a city girl moves out to the sticks where she befriends a tomboy and they set out in search of mythic treasure. Two kids going off on an adventure together; what could be better? 

As a kid, I wanted nothing more than for Anna Chlumsky and Christina Ricci to be my friends. No, it never happened, and the film is not quite as amazing as I remember, but it does capture that feeling of youth and innocence long past.

3 reflections out of 5

PSYCHO III [1986]

Anthony Perkins claims the director's chair in the third instalment of the Psycho series.
Having not seen this film since I was kid, I recalled it being not as good as the second film and boy, was I right.  This film is pretty terrible.
While I admire Perkins' not trying to imitate Hitchcock's style, I find it offensive that they'd turn the series into a cheap 80's slasher flick with more graphic violence and bouncing boobies.
Even though the second film ended on somewhat of a cliffhanger I would have preferred this film had never been made.

1 bloody ice cube out of 5