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, ...

With Kevin Smith developing 1984's science fiction-comedy The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension for TV, this would seem the perfect time to check out — or rewatch — director W.D.

“The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!” is an absurdist sci-fi-comedy that was arguably ahead of its time and its studio, 20th Century Fox, didn’t know how to market it to the ...

Few cult classics have the staying power, and continued bewildering charm, of 1984’s The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. It’s a mouthful, and terrible for SEO. But its sense of ...

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 ...

Milos Forman's "Amadeus" may have cleaned up at the Oscars while "Ghostbusters" dominated the box office, but for me, 1984 is best remembered as a vintage year for cult movies. For starters, "This is ...

[Note: As with anything Smith does, there’s quite a bit of potentially objectionable language peppering his speech in the video, so consider yourself warned.] Smith announced his departure from the ...