Brubaker is based on the real-life experiences of Tom Murton, who worked as a warden in a primitive Arkansas prison in 1968, improving conditions and irritating…
Browsing: Movies 1980
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Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray, Ted Knight and Michael O’Keefe starred in this classic comedy. A louche golf professional (Chase) gets caught up in…
This violent and explicit $17 million take on Rome’s most depraved emperor – produced by Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione from an original screenplay by novelist…
Can’t Stop the Music was produced by Allan Carr – who was also responsible for the mega-musical Grease (1978) – as a vehicle to promote the…
A young American film crew vanishes in the Colombian rainforest while shooting an anthropology documentary. Their footage, found with their remains and boldly retrieved by…
Produced in the wake of the worldwide success of Mad Max, this film reunited many of that film’s cast and crew (Mel Gibson even has…
When famous classical composer John Russell takes up residence in an old Victorian mansion, all he requires is solitude, quiet and an atmosphere in which…
Cheech (Cheech Marin) and Chong (Tommy Chong) live in a decrepit old house and drive their neighbour crazy with their loud music, weed smoking and…
This British made-for-television movie aired at 10:50 pm on ITV on Wednesday 31 December 1980 (New Year’s Eve) and starred American comedy actress Elaine Stritch…
This film about an Australian Rules football club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) could easily be about the behind-the-scenes and front-of-house activities of any…
Sissy Spacek won a best actress Oscar for her heartfelt portrayal of country singer Loretta Lynn in this movie biopic from Michael Apted, the British…
The first scene of Coast to Coast is so strained, so odd, so unmanageable in terms of its comic possibilities that the movie never regenerates…
William Friedkin’s typically intense thriller finds Al Pacino overacting alarmingly as clear-eyed New York cop Steve Burns, who leathers up and enters the gay, sadomasochistic…
Any movie that runs three hours is an hour too long, no matter how good it is. Any movie in which half of the dialogue…
A dystopian science fiction picture shot in cinemascope, Bertrand Tavernier’s Death Watch is based on David G. Compton’s The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, a 1974 novel…
Jamie Shannon (Christopher Walken) is a veteran sickened by his role as a mercenary, but when the amorous reunion with his ex-wife Jesse (JoBeth Williams)…
This bizarre spoof of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic stars Oliver Reed in the dual roles of ugly but kindly podiatrist Dr Henry Heckyl and…
The opening scene of Dressed To Kill shows Angie Dickinson in the shower, licking her lips and having a pornographic fantasy. The character is frustrated housewife Kate Miller. The…
Producer Mel Brooks fought for years to bring the true story of John Merrick – cruelly nicknamed the ‘Elephant Man’ due to his large tumours…
The darkest of the original Star Wars trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back opens with a fantastic battle between the Rebels (the good guys) and Darth Vader’s Evil Empire…