A haunted harpsichord causes bloody deaths during the bicentennial of the small New England town of Ludlow. The instrument has been sent all the way…
Browsing: Movies 1983
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Dan Aykroyd featured in his first leading role (not long after the death of his partner John Belushi) as mild-mannered midwestern WASP college teacher, Clifford Skridlow, getting…
In 1964, Eddie Wilson had it all. He had genius, he had vision, he had the hottest rock & roll band in the country. Then…
Adapted from Willy Russell’s play, Educating Rita retains its charm and poignancy in this cosy film version. Rita (Julie Walters in her feature film debut), a working-class…
Before Reservoir Dogs (1992) star Harvey Keitel became cool he appeared in this tepid thriller as Rivas, a ruthless terrorist who crosses paths with jet-set New…
Although considerably classier than Russ Meyer’s 1964 version and the 1968 Swedish soft-core interpretation, this is still a disappointingly bawdy dramatisation of John Cleland’s 1749…
Director and animation pioneer Ralph (Fritz the Cat) Bakshi filmed Fire and Ice in black and white with live actors and then worked with Conan…
Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, an 18-year-old welder in a Pittsburgh steel mill who moonlights as an exotic dancer in the dive bar her…
The brilliant but insane Dr Frankenberry (Robert Andrews) has a stupid plus-size platinum-blonde daughter called Buffy (comic singer Brenda Bergman), who has a nude sex…
A long-time employee of the legendary music venue Fillmore East in New York, director Allan Arkush was the right man for this rock-flavoured satire about…
Arkady Renko (William Hurt), Chief Investigator of the Moscow Militia, stumbles upon three frozen corpses in Gorky Park one icy winter night. It’s his job…
The horrific true tale of Christine Lewis (Kerry Mack), a naive 16-year-old who meets a handsome German immigrant and carnival worker called Walter Maresch (Ralph…
American writer Kenneth Magee (Desi Arnaz Jr.) goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet – can he write a classic novel like…
After nearly a decade of directing TV adverts for the company he formed with his elder brother, Ridley, Tony Scott made his movie debut with…
Called simply Jaws 3 for television and stripped of the one gimmick (3-D) that made it – arguably – acceptable in theatres, this hapless opus…
In one of the weirdest Second World War movies ever made, a bunch of German soldiers bivouac in a remote old Romanian castle in 1941…
Of all Martin Scorsese’s outings with sparring partner Robert DeNiro, this is the strangest. He plays Rupert Pupkin, a desperate wannabe stand-up comic (and seedy…
This notorious Australian flop is set in Sydney during the Roaring 20s. Beautiful Kitty O’Rourke (Liddy Clark, pictured above), a young war bride fresh off…
This groundbreaking film is essentially a non-narrative view of America, shot with time-lapse photography (from 1975 to 1982) and featuring amazing music. The film is…
From Conan The Barbarian (1982) to the Star Wars sequels, the early 1980s saw an endless array of science-fiction and fantasy films become popular at the box office. Krull was…