Director Paul Schrader revamped the 1942 horror classic here with cold and flashy graphic effects. Nastassja Kinski was captivating as the young mysterious woman who…
Browsing: Movies 1982
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Perry King stars as Andy Norris, the new music teacher at run-down Abraham Lincoln High School who takes the law into his own hands and resorts…
The story of the most famous group in the history of popular music, narrated by Malcolm McDowell. From the early days in Liverpool. through the…
“Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this:…
Night of the Living Dead (1968) director George A Romero and top terror writer Stephen King neatly capture the ironic spirit of 1950s EC horror comics…
The Dark Crystal was produced by the same puppetry wizards responsible for The Muppets, but this 1982 fantasy was much more J.R.R. Tolkien than it was Kermit…
A good-natured, black-and-white spoof of the detective genre, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid attempted (with varying degrees of success) to recreate film noir by splicing clips…
Sidney Bruhl’s reputation as a playwright is on the line when another of his plays is panned by the critics. Admitting that he would do…
With their exams over, three wealthy Melbourne private school girls – Jilly (Kim Trengrove), Joanne (Kerry Mack) and Liz (Marie O’Loughlin) – head off to…
This gentle, warm-hearted comedy-drama about a group of six young men in Baltimore in 1959 was director Barry Levinson’s debut feature and it remains among…
Peter Greenaway’s audacious film (his first commercially released feature film) landed in 1980s Britain like ET’s spaceship in the Californian woods. Unrealistic and baffling – featuring a living…
Small businessman Ray Martin (Mike Preston) needs money not only to expand his toy business but for his estranged wife who runs a gallery in…
An inspired account from Steven Spielberg of an alien who lands in a pine forest on the California coast and gets separated from his people…
Middle-class Los Angeles couple Paul and Mary Bland (brilliantly portrayed by coauthor and director Paul Bartel and Warhol superstar Mary Woronov) finance their dream restaurant…
Carla Moran (Barbara Hershey) is a woman with many problems and under considerable pressure. She has three children who are not always as amenable as…
A gold prospector strikes it rich and lives in the lap of luxury on a Caribbean island until his headstrong daughter’s troubles and a gang…
“Fast cars. Fast girls. Fast carrots . . . Fast carrots??” Author Cameron Crowe based Fast Times at Ridgemont High on his real-life observations when he returned…
After his mother (Gina DeAngelis) is brutally mugged in his own Philadelphia neighbourhood and the police are unable to resolve the increasing rate of crime…
Are you ready for Clint Eastwood as a Vietnam vet and former Army pilot who lives in seclusion in Alaska, speaks Russian and has periodic…
Sylvester Stallone gained international attention as John Rambo, an itinerant former Green Beret who was tortured in Vietnam and must now defend himself against a…