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 ...

Earl Mac Rauch and Walter Richter say in court papers that the early 1980s deal with MGM was a limited one. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large In the second chapter in the legal fight over ...

Some movies feel too strange to be real – and Buckaroo Banzai is one such movie. Our hero, Buckaroo Banzai (Robocop’s Peter Weller), is the world’s most famous rock star, brain surgeon, inventor, ...

Earl Mac Rauch and Walter Richter proclaim they own rights — and have been telling others including Amazon Studios and Kevin Smith's agents at WME. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large Rauch ...

A number of directors in the mid-80s set out quite consciously and deliberately to make the next big cult hit. There was money and status in that midnight movie circuit. Hit it right, make the next ...

The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension stands as one of those divisive cult movies that people either seem to love or loathe for all its OTT glory (for the record, we're in the ...

Jeff Goldblum, Peter Weller, and Christopher Lloyd might be recognizable names today, but before they starred in their ...

The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension hit theaters in 1984, in the midst of a glut of post-Raiders Of The Lost Ark throwback adventure stories. Amid all the Allan Quartermains, ...

“This is not what I signed up for,” Smith said in a Facebook video, which you can watch below in full. “I was caught off-guard [by the lawsuit]. I literally had no idea. It blows, man, because that’s ...

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 ...