Big Worlds On Small Screens & “Fantasy Films From the Eighties That Weren’t That Bad” — Yes, Our Grand Finale’s “Ghostbusters”!

~ by Rebecca Fisher

The original Ghostbusters came out in the same year I was born, and growing up it was something of a rite-of-passage to watch it for the first time. The kids in my class were divided into those who knew what people were talking about when they mentioned the ghost in the library, and those who didn’t.

In hindsight, Ghostbusters isn’t a particularly appropriate film for children – along with some very adult jokes there are some truly terrifying scenes as well (those hellhou...