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…
Browsing: Movies 1982
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Ken Finkleman – writer of Grease 2 (1982) – wrote and directed this sequel to the hilarious 1980 film, Airplane!, retaining most of the characters from the original movie. After…
Four dangerous and delusional psychopaths escape from ‘The Haven’ – a maximum-security psychiatric hospital – when the electric doors fail during a power blackout. Paranoid…
A “prequel” to the 1979 hit finds another family – the Montelli’s – falling prey to supernatural forces at the infamous Long Island home. The…
In an isolated space station millions of miles from Earth in the year 2036, Max 404 – an almost-human robot – learns that he is…
“Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow, it’s only a day away!” Famed cartoon strip character, star of radio and Broadway, Little Orphan Annie came to…
The opening scene, in which a schoolgirl is violently dragged into the woods by an unseen and barely explained supernatural force, is genuinely terrifying, while…
An ill-cast but effective Al Pacino is having a host of domestic troubles as playwright Ivan Travalian. His wife has left him for a guy…
This gore-drenched, low-budget gutter-trash classic is one of the key horror movies of the 1980s. It tells the bizarre story of the Bradley brothers -…
A world after the 21st-century oil wars – with energy at a premium, a global fuel shortage and the Earth’s food and resources running out,…
This tale of two ferrets, a tiger and an eagle – supported by a cast of beautiful human bodies – in the pursuit of good…
Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn play Hollywood screenwriters Richard Babson and Paula McCullen who have, for five years, been an unbeatable team as writers, lovers, and…
This film version of the hit Broadway musical revolves around the legendary bordello in La Grange, Texas, known as The Chicken Ranch because of a…
Melanie (Angela Punch McGregor) is the front person for a network television show based in Sydney (though we never learn what type of show it…
Early in the 21st century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced robot evolution into the Nexus phase – a synthetic being virtually identical to a human -…
Jack Nicholson brings much richness to his stiff characterisation of Charlie Smith – a border patrol officer in El Paso who becomes involved with corruption,…
This bizarre, unsavoury psychological thriller from writer Dennis Potter stars Sting (from the rock group The Police) who convincingly portrays Martin Taylor – a sinister…
At the Britannia Hospital, which celebrates its 500th anniversary, the Queen Mother and the Japanese ambassador are to open the new Millar Centre for Advanced…
Although only a classy porn movie with artistic pretensions, Stephen Sayadian’s cult classic (directed under his pseudonym ‘Rinse Dream’) is extraordinarily prophetic when viewed retrospectively…
A marine biologist – and former baseball player – befriends a group of down-and-outs, changing his life irrevocably in this drama based on the John Steinbeck novel…