Cover star Michael Douglas talks about how producing kept his acting career alive and The Jewel Of The Nile was zero fun to make as nobody wanted to be there.

A trade article covering how the VHS market is shifting from a purely rental window to simultaneous sell-through releases. Danny Champion Of The World and Rain Man were the first to take a gamble changing the pattern.

The rise of the multiplex gets a well researched essay. Did you know they had a mechanism built into the ceilings above projector booths to run one print from a first projection booth and then have it spool across the vents to be used again soon after in a nearby screen?

A begrudging interview with Ken Russell whose career was on a downward turn.

A very candid feature on the crew’s first hand experiences on the set of The Abyss. The lower rung cast members talk of the backwards hick town they were trapped in, the danger of filming in a water flooded nuclear reactor and their minor rebellions against the James Cameron regime. Still, all that suffering produced one of the best sci-fi movies ever… so shut the fuck up.

Some recent releases covered. They did not enjoy Two Moon Junction, shortsightedly stating Sherilyn Fenn had no screen chemistry. Audrey Horn wants a word with you Empire. The two genre flicks that have stood the test of time (Dead Calm and Road House) are buried seven pages deep into the New Releases review section.

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