The presence of distinguished real-life husband and wife Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy makes this saccharine-sodden retread of Cocoon (1985) worth watching. They play Frank and Faye…
Browsing: Movies – 1980s
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As a child, Heather Thompson (Kylie Claire) witnesses her crime lord father (Tony Blackett) electrocute a young boy. When she grows into an adult (now…
After a car accident, 81-year-old businessman Jack Watson (played by 92-year-old George Burns) finds his birthday wish to be young again comes true, and his…
Based on the dystopian novel by George Orwell and set in the totalitarian future state of Oceania, this is the story of citizen Winston Smith…
Dazzling special effects and fancy space hardware dominate this follow-up to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yet, there’s no feeling of awe, mystery or imagination…
Jeff Hannah (Adam Baldwin) is a former member of a vicious youth gang called The Cobras. Hannah walked away from the gang after a particularly…
48 Hours is a Clint Eastwood movie without Clint Eastwood in it. Instead, it’s got Nick Nolte, looking puffy and out of shape, as Detective Jack…
Elmore Leonard’s clever screenplay (from his own bestseller) and John Frankenheimer’s staccato direction work effectively to bring about this chilling crime drama with colourful heroes…
Hal Ashby may be the most undersung directing talent in 20th-century film history, thanks to an early death of cancer at 59 and his hard-to-categorise…
84 Charing Cross Road is a true story in which Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins give distinguished performances as two strangers on opposite sides of the…
Judy Bernly (Jane Fonda) – a housewife whose husband left her for his secretary – begins her own secretarial career at a huge corporation called…
The title is a reference to the duration of the relationship between self-absorbed yuppie Wall Street shark John (Mickey Rourke) and smart, divorced Soho art…
This ambitious, bloody, hungry no-budget monster-in-a-kitchen movie from Texas was written and directed by Bret McCormick (using the pseudonyms ‘Bando Glutz’ and ‘Max Raven’) A…
“It’s about men, women, choices, sex, ambition, moving in, no sex, risk, underwear, friendship, career moves, strategy, commitment, love, fun, breaking up, making up, bedtime,…
Sally Field plays Megan Carter – a Miami reporter who has been working for the city’s leading newspaper for three years. She needs a scoop…
This highly stylised musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes’ novel celebrates the rise of teen culture in late-50s London with a mishmash of pop fashions and…
Father Goddard (Richard Burton), an austere and domineering schoolmaster-priest at a remote Roman Catholic boarding school in England, considers standout student Benjie Stanfield (Dominic Guard)…
This underwater epic features spectacular deep-sea special effects and elaborate high-tech hardware. But the story is bewildering and shallow. The plot, which mainly involves a…
The Accidental Tourist is a quirky movie which manages to be intelligent, funny and deeply moving. Lawrence Kasdan’s faithful rendering of the Anne Tyler novel is…
Jodie Foster won her first Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for her performance as rape victim Sarah Tobias in The Accused. It’s easy to…