When her mother died 20 years ago, Susan Walker (played as a child by Julie Christy Murray) went into what Simon (Norman Burton) the family…
Browsing: Movies 1983
In 1983, rock star David Bowie starred in two major films: as part of the love-triangle vampire drama with Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon in…
Steve Hall (James Laurie) is a sprint car driver from Queensland who travels to Sydney and faces off with a gang of vicious car strippers…
The Monty Python team present a vignette-style cradle-to-grave guide to the ultimate questions; Why we’re born, why we die, and why we should know when…
Comedy about a married couple who decide to switch roles when the husband becomes unemployed. With the wife now going out to work, the husband…
A Chicago family sets out for a two-week road trip to California and encounters every conceivable mishap along the way. Chevy Chase plays accident-prone (and…
“Good to see you, Mr Bond. Things have been awfully dull around here. Now you’re on this, I hope we’re going to have some gratuitous…
Roger Moore looked pretty long in the snout in For Your Eyes Only (1981), his previous entry in the Bond series. Miraculously, he looks younger than ever…
Successful Manhattan executive Bart Hughes (Peter Weller in his first leading role) stays behind to work in his renovated New York brownstone when his beautiful…
The Osterman Weekend is a junk movie dedicated to the destruction of as many material things as possible – not to mention human lives (which…
Director Francis Ford Coppola mishandles this film adaptation of S. E. Hinton’s novel about rival teenage gangs in Oklahoma during the 1960s (no actual time…
“It’s New Year’s Eve. Larry’s parents are at the vicarage dance, leaving Larry in charge of the house. Big mistake. Because Larry’s a party animal…
The huge success of Canadian comedy Porky’s (1981) – it grossed over $110 million – convinced the main creative talents that a sequel would be…
This long-promised sequel to Hitchcock’s 1960 classic, Psycho, was in no way as effective or as memorable a shocker as the original film, but a…
This mystery thriller set in the Australian outback revolves around a ferocious 500-kilogram feral boar – or razorback. It’s essentially Jaws with a pig . . .…
“Into the blue!” In World War II, Captain Invincible (Alan Arkin) used his superpowers against gangsters and the Nazis, and he was a hero. But…
The third and last (at the time) instalment of the original Star Wars saga, Return of the Jedi, tied up a lot of loose ends, showed off…
The Right Stuff is a 200-minute history lesson about America’s space program. It is expensive, exasperating, exhausting, exhilarating, overblown, overproduced, sometimes excruciatingly stuffy, often exciting, and always…
“My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfilment. I grossed over $8,000 in one night. Isn’t life grand?!” Left to safeguard the family…
Angel, a female member of a punk rock band in the apocalyptic future, is kidnapped by Mok, a legendary and malevolent old rocker. Obsessed with a…