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46 of 46 · most liked firstTONIGHT: Gary Coleman plays a bullied teen turned arsonist in PLAYING WITH FIRE, a jaw-dropping ’85 TV movie thought “lost” til a copy surfaced online a few months ago. His costars include an iconically frazzled Cicely Tyson, Yaphet Kotto, Ron O’Neal, & some cousin of Travolta. Tue 1/28 at 7:30pm PT
unlabelledView post →I'll be in Portland tonight to show U our hot new ecosexual film "Playing with Fire!" Plus a perforative slide show, free swag, books, and more. Come! @portlandartmuseum.bsky.social Tomorrow Thtr. 7:00. Tickets $5 w code FiRE-10.
unlabelledView post →They're Playing With Fire|1984 www.imdb.com/title/tt0088... 📽️ #NowWatching #filmsky #horrormovies #slashers ·a college student is seduced by his professor, whose husband schemes to steal millions from an inheritance. but soon a masked lunatic appears, slaughtering the cast in true Jason style·
unlabelledView post →For day 145 of my year long retrospective on made for TV movies that need a DVD/Blu Ray release, I chose the oddball 1985 drama Playing with Fire, which features Gary Coleman as a teen arsonist. This is a strange film and not wholly successful, but it is really fascinating and Coleman goes for broke
unlabelledView post →Newspaper ad for PLAYING WITH FIRE (1985), a made for tv movie starring Gary Coleman as a teenage arsonist and Cicely Tyson as his mom Tyson was BOTD in 1924
unlabelledView post →In 1985, Gary Coleman starred in "Playing with Fire", a TV movie about a child arsonist. I've been dying to see it for decades. No copy has surfaced online (it was never released on home video). Over the course of the past day it has FINALLY turned up, I am beyond excited archive.org/details/play...
unlabelledView post →Playing with Fire I'm sure only got famous because it revolved around one joke seen in the trailer- MLP of all things and the rest of the movie is just a comedy that fails to put out a fire. I wasn't impressed by this then and not even now but its for kids and for John Cena fans so its not the worst
unlabelledView post →A bit of a redraw with my bully character (it is Playing With Fire (2019) movie) -- #meme #furrydog #originalcharacter #anthro #furry
unlabelledView post →🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨 It's #Sextember once again and we start it off right with THEY'RE PLAYING WITH FIRE! Or did we? What genre is this movie? Listen as we explore! www.newworldpicturespodcast.com/ep-153-theyr...
unlabelledView post →FUN FACT: The 1985 made-for-TV movie Playing With Fire starred Gary Coleman as a teenage pyromaniac, and was long considered lost, until a VHS recording of a TV broadcast was uploaded to youtube in 2024!
unlabelledView post →www.redcat.org/events/playi... Hollywood or BUST? Both! Tickets just went on sale for our one night only happening at the gorgeous RedCat theater downtown LA. Sept. 26. Hope to see you there for our LA premiere of Playing with Fire film & a performative introduction—Ecosex** Primer.
unlabelledView post →West Virginia! Beth is in you —to present our new film, “Playing with Fire,” at the WV Appalachian Queer Film Festival. It’s wonderful festival in Sheperdstown, WV. Beth is from West VA, so very special for her to share her work there. And we R married to Appalachian Mountains.
unlabelledView post →I’m watching the Gary Coleman Playing With Fire rip on YouTube. The movie is so-so but the commercials are fascinating. John McEnroe and Pierce Brosnan looked so young in 1985.
unlabelledView post →Our 1st #sextember film of the year, THEY'RE PLAYING WITH FIRE is more giallo than sex comedy, with a killer on the loose wearing black gloves and way too much denim. Director Howard Avedis (MORTUARY) draws on his own 1974 film THE TEACHER for inspiration, writing it with his wife, Marlene Schmidt.
unlabelledView post →2024 Favorites: Film: Challengers, Music by John Williams, Hot Frosty TV: Interview with the Vampire, Newsreader, The Way Home, Finding Mr. Christmas Music: Playing with Fire (Frankenstein musical), Chappel Roan, "Guard Down" August Moon Book: When Women Ran 5th Avenue #tvsky #moviesky #recs
unlabelledView post →Long thought lost! PLAYING WITH FIRE, a TV movie starring Gary Coleman as an arsonist, has resurfaced, taped off TV in 1985 with original commercials. Yaphet Kotto! Cicely Tyson! Ron O'Neal!
unlabelledView post →4. Playing With Fire (2019) As cheesy as this movie was, it’s also pretty harmless and had some wholesome moments into the mix. Btw, I’m guessing one of the filmmakers love “My Little Pony.” Just a hunch.
unlabelledView post →Episode 58: Playing with Fire featuring @futurehasbeen.bsky.social was a really fun look into the world of TV movies, and also everything I learned about the director of this movie shocked and delighted me.
unlabelledView post →Co-directors Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens complete their doc trilogy of sorts with PLAYING WITH FIRE: AN ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY. The film hits theaters this weekend in NYC before rolling out nationally in November. Brandon Wilson has this review... www.hammertonail.com/reviews/play...
unlabelledView post →NEW: Kev The Ripper and I use this previously lost 1985 TV Movie to reignite the fires of Hell...and also see if #GaryColeman should've fired his agent after this. #PlayingWithFire #LostMedia #PodPeople #PodNation #PodernFamily directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...
unlabelledView post →On a semi related note, I came to recognize the Kingpin in Spider-Verse was voiced by Sabretooth himself (in X-Men Origins) and the guy who played Sabretooth (the 2000 film) was also a side character in Playing with Fire. Not the proudest titles to bring up (save for Spider-Verse), but still.
unlabelledView post →This week’s #80sSoundtrackSaturday is Lisa Edwards and “Playing With Fire” (1986) from awesome Australian B-film, Dead End Drive-In. #LisaEdwards #80s #80smusic #80smovie
unlabelledView post →Love that movie Playing With Fire. Probably my favorite John Cena movie.
unlabelledView post →COMING SUNDAY: Our Biggest Episode Yet; as Kev The Ripper & I take down (what was once) a TV Movie that was Lost for nearly 40 years...It's time to light 'em up with #PlayingwithFire... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wce...
unlabelledView post →It’s fun!! I’ll look up the one w Alison Brie. Home sick again tomorrow, so I’ve got time. I watched Playing with Fire a couple months ago. It was everything I would have loved in a kids movie as a kid. He does pick good ones, that John.
unlabelledView post →For me, the last one I watched that was new to me that really blew my wig back was Playing With Fire, a tv movie where Gary Coleman played a teen arsonist.
unlabelledView post →[April 14th, 1985] The drama TV Movie "Playing with Fire", starring Gary Coleman (in his first dramatic role), Cicely Tyson, Ron O'Neal, and Yaphet Kotto, premieres in theaters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOu4... #history #OTD #1980s
unlabelledView post →Streaming Simpy then it's Lifetime Movie Monday with Playing with Fire here in about 10: cytu.be/r/noweaboosa...
unlabelledView post →They're Playing With Fire (1984) Steamy thriller in which a student is seduced by his sexy married professor played by B-movie goddess Sybil Danning.
unlabelledView post →Watching an old 80’s film called “Playing with Fire” starring Cicely Tyson and Gary Coleman. I have to say— a middle-class Black American family going through a divorce & not paying attention to their son choosing arson as an outlet. Recipe for his villain era. #PlayingWithFire #80sClassicFilms
unlabelledView post →📺NBC Primetime, April 14, 1985: — TV movie 'Playing with Fire' starring Gary Coleman
unlabelledView post →10/6 | 1:30pm From HSI Designation to Servingness: Enacting Equity at Citrus College Zoom 10/7 | 2:45pm "Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire" Screening VA 130 10/12 | 11:30am Alebrije Making Event Campus Center 10/14 | 2:45pm Chicano Art Short Film Series VA 130 3/5
unlabelledView post →The (movie) Playing with Fire and Dora Double Feature 4K (iTunes)(US) $9.99 (Family) (iMDB) 5.7 Cast: John Cena, Isabela Merced, Keegan-Michael Key, Eugenio Derbez, John Leguizamo, Michael Peña
unlabelledView post →Kindergarten Cop is not a kid movie. Sorry, but you have to accept that. The Pacifier and Playing With Fire failed the moment you made them kid movies. That's a movie that has kids in it. There's a difference.
unlabelledView post →Symposium: Unbuilding the Pyrocene 20 May 13:30 – 20:00 @thebartlettucl.bsky.social Exploring Stephen J. Pyne’s Pyrocene through intersectional, queer & global lenses. Keynote by Nigel Clark. Film screening & directors' Q&A of Playing With Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...
unlabelledView post →Trying to explain to my 8 year old that she probably won't like Peacemaker after she saw it stars John Cena who she knows from Playing With Fire and Danielle Brooks who she knows from the Minecraft movie. Modern parenting struggles <shrug>
unlabelledView post →"Playing with Fire," the third and final film in Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens' trilogy about loving the Earth, explores the CZU fires that broke out in their hometown. It will be screened at the Santa Cruz Film Festival Sunday. www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/10/08/f...
unlabelledView post →37. Playing With Fire 2/10 The most obvious example of a movie you take your kids to keep them entertained for 90 mins
unlabelledView post →The (movie) Playing With Fire (4K) is available today on (iTunes)(UK) for £3.99 Cast: John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key, John Leguizamo, Tyler Mane, Brianna Hildebrand, Christian Convery Genre: (Comedy) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/playing_wi...
unlabelledView post →i added Playing With Fire to my digital movie library holdings.
unlabelledView post →Playing with Fire: A Mises Institute Film on the Federal Reserve. By Mises Institute/ZeroHedge - 18 May 2025 BLOG human-synthesis.ghost.io/2025/05/19/p...
unlabelledView post →Watching PLAYING WITH FIRE (aka RAW HEAT) and it’s funny how a made for TV movie can feel elegant now. Pierce Brosnan’s run as Bond is sort of tempered by the Jay Leno aspect of his casting, the deferred/owed, but good lord was/is he a handsome motherfucker in ways Bond didn’t take advantage of.
unlabelledView post →Welp, i was going to go to bed but I just discovered “Playing With Fire” the 1985 made for tv movie where gary coleman plays a teenage pyromaniac, is on youtube in its entirety. been wanting to see this again for decades, sleep can wait
unlabelledView post →Decent watch, probably won't watch again, and can only recommend for younger audiences. Nickelodeon has done some weird things, and putting together this cast is one of them. It's a great cast, but it's not really what I could consider a kid's movie cast. I don't think any kids would know Dennis Haysbert or Judy Greer, and I kind of hope they wouldn't know John Leguizamo, Keegan-Michael Key, or Brianna Hildebrand, but they might know John Cena if they know wrestling. There is a lot of things…
neutral · AI labelView post →Perfectly harmless movie squarely aimed at kids, but I did manage to chuckle a few times even with the overacting. Also helps that I do genuinely like the cast, John Cena and Keegan-Michael Key. Nothing I'd be keen on watching again, but still was an okay time-waster. 2.75/5
neutral · AI labelView post →Paramount has proved themselves with ‘Instant Family’ and this year's ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’, showing they can really work some magic and create really funny, wholesome, heartwarming live action family films, and ‘Playing with Fire’ could have been in that bunch if it wasn’t so cheap and derivative. While Cena charms, the rest of the film isn’t that hot. - Chris dos Santos Read Chris' full article...…
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