Welcome to an exciting year-long project here at The Nerdy. 1985 was an exciting year for films giving us a lot of films that would go on to be beloved favorites and cult classics. It was also the start to a major shift in cultural and societal norms, and some of those still reverberate to this day.
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We’re going to pick and choose which movies we hit, but right now the list stands at nearly four dozen.
Yes, we’re insane, but 1985 was that great of a year for film.
The articles will come out – in most cases – on the same day the films hit theaters in 1984 so that it is their true 40th anniversary. All films are also watched again for the purposes of these reviews and are not being done from memory. In some cases, it truly will be the first time we’ve seen them.
This time around, it’s Oct. 25, 1985, and we’re off to see Krush Groove.
Krush Groove
There are times where a movie is just not a movie, and this is one of those times.
The Krush Groove record label is having explosive success after Run-DMC cuts a hit track. The problem is, the the young label doesn’t have the funds to press enough copies and must take out a loan from a street hustler. Meanwhile, Shelia E. shows up on the scene and catches the eyes of a few too many men.
I try not to dive too much into the backstory of the films I watch for this project because it should be more about what is on the screen. In the case of Krush Groove as I had to. It seems this film was put together by the fairly new Def Jam record label and it was viewed as a showcase for their up and coming artists and the general music scene of New York City at the time.
Shelia E. was added as a love interest because they felt they had to have one. Never mind the fact she felt completely out of place here and was clearly in her Prince period from her clothing to the sounds of her two tracks in the film.
As a time capsule, the film is fascinating. I hadn’t thought about the Fat Boys in decades, and it’s interesting to see how the hip-hop scene was taking shape during this time. Beyond that, however, as just a film, it’s as thread bare as you can get.
Come for the musical history, and that’s it.
1985 Movie Reviews will return on Nov. 1, 2025, with Death Wish 3, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, and To Live and Die in L.A..
