TheArchive: Reviewing the Rare, Retro, and Restored

It’s back to school time ! Even if your high school days are far behind you, and whether you look back at your time in high school with fondness or dread, high school is an inevitable experience that most adolescents face worldwide. The American high school experience has been dramatized and portrayed in films and TV shows since the 1960s. This week’s blog will dive into the “Teen Drama” genre in honor of the confusing, often dramatic, and sometimes joyful period of our lives.  A teen drama is a type of drama series that centers on teenage and young adult characters. The TV show Never Too Young , aired in 1965, is often regarded as the first teen drama explicitly aimed at a teenage audience. Set in Malibu, the series depicted the lives of affluent high school students and their parents, featuring Tony Dow and Tommy Rettig in leading roles. Although, the genre gained significant popularity in the early 1990s, particularly with the success of the Fox series Beverly Hills, 90210 ....

Memory lane has brought us Super Mario Brothers and Dungeons & Dragons yet again and audiences the world over are all over it! From the beloved plumber navigating the Mushroom Kingdom to the immersive world of fantasy in Dungeons & Dragons, these iconic franchises have not only dominated the gaming landscape but now also the box office. TheArchive loves us some nostalgia too and so we uncovered our own video game treat from our favorite Roger Corman doppelganger Greydon Clark. O ver four decades, Clark brought films to the screen like the "sexy pep squad" in  Satan's Cheerleaders  and excelled at exploitation with diverse diddies like  Wacko ,  Black Shampoo , and Without Warning . But he also dug him some video games and rolled out  Joysticks  in 1983. Says Greydon Clark himself about the film that not only stars Leif Green but Jim Greenleaf (is that even possible?), " I started thinking about video games, teenagers, and sex…Seemed like a very logi...