Fame was essentially an excuse for lots of limbs and leotards, and catchy music such as the title track sung by Irene Cara. A new school…
Browsing: Movies 1980
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
10-year-old Ben Oxenbould – a schoolboy “untainted by acting” – was chosen to portray the titular scamp from a famous comic strip which was published…
The crew of the nuclear US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, captained by Kirk Douglas, find themselves transported back in time to the day before the…
“Hi, my name’s Flash,” says the dopey New York Jets quarterback (Sam J. Jones) to his new girlfriend, Dale, a sexy but dim-witted travel agent…
Ex-TV commercial director Adrian (Flashdance, 9½ Weeks) Lyne made his feature film debut with this slick movie about four 16-year-old girls growing up in the…
This first instalment (in a seemingly never-ending series) was actually a bit of a clunker – but the millions of scared teens and adults who…
Galaxina is a late Star Wars (1977) spoof set in the 31st century and featuring lowbrow comedy, duff special effects, an awkward Alien (1979) parody and a central…
Millions of TV viewers came to love George and Mildred Roper and their life together at 46 Peacock Crescent, Hampton Wick. Mildred was the go-ahead…
Goodbye Pork Pie introduces us to John (Tony Barry) who lives in the north of New Zealand. At the moment we meet him, John has…
The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle was Malcolm McLaren’s self-aggrandising, self-congratulatory rewrite of recent history. His beloved Sex Pistols figured only as puppets, with McLaren tugging…
Shortly after being launched from a space shuttle, an American satellite collides with a UFO, which then crashes to Earth in the Arizona desert. One…
Samantha (Tracy Mann) is a young Melbourne woman struggling to make a new life for herself after a spate of petty crime sees her locked…
This made-for-television movie from ITC starred former Danger Man and The Prisoner star Patrick McGoohan as John Connor, one of the world’s best contract assassins…
Director Simon Wincer’s second feature is a downright odd attempt to update the story of Rasputin to 1980s Australia. Trading on the piercing eyes that…
Lord Grade’s ITC gave director Terry Marcel a modest budget of less than a million pounds to throw his hat into the rampant sword-and-sorcery genre…
Making his movie debut in this low-budget slasher flick (filmed entirely on Staten Island) in 1980, the then-twentysomething Tom Hanks was a few years away…
Heaven’s Gate is best known as the colossal financial disaster that sank United Artists and sent celebrated director Michael Cimino into Hollywood purgatory. After winning two…
After three breezy episodes in ten years, this fourth film about Herbie the Love Bug was the one that finally put the skids under the…
A tasteless rip-off of American Graffiti (1973), Hollywood Knights was a raucous non-starter whose funniest moment had four members of a college fraternity urinating into a punch bowl. Set…
Released in the UK as plain old Monster, this is a surprisingly gruelling affair in which monsters from the ocean floor surface in the seaside…