Having thwarted Lex Luthor and three Kryptonian supervillains in Superman II (1981), the Man of Steel now battled his greatest foe yet: comedian Richard Pryor . .…
Browsing: Movies 1983
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Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine), is a Cinemascope-sized gargoyle of a Houston mother, who skips her daughter Emma’s wedding because she hates the bridegroom and feels…
Testament begins on a day like any other day. In an archetypal nuclear family, Mom, Carol Wetherly (Jane Alexander,) grapples with costumes for the school play and…
An executive and a con man figure in a plan by two tycoons to determine whether heredity or environment makes the man. In a one-dollar…
Once upon a time, there were some people called the Rushers of Din. Each night as they slept, sweet dreams were delivered to them from…
Remaking old movies that worked better the first time around is a pointless waste of time. It makes even less sense to dig up old…
Five years on from Grease (1978), John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John re-teamed for a fantasy romance about a couple used as guinea pigs by God (voiced…
Like most movies about Vietnam, Uncommon Valor is more about guns and explosions than it is about people, but it’s never dull and the massive battle sequences…
Russell Price (Nick Nolte) is a war photographer travelling the world in 1979 seeking out the most dangerous locations and taking photographs to record what…
Owing something to Fred Schepisi’s Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), this is a powerful period drama which plays like a New Zealand Western film. Te Wheke…
“Julie’s cool. Randy’s hot. She’s from the valley. He’s not!” Sweet-natured San Fernando Valley suburbanite, Julie (Deborah Foreman), falls for Randy (18-year-old Nicolas Cage), an…
A groundbreaking film, David Cronenberg’s story about the horrible transformations wrought by exposure to televised violence wittily thematises the very problems that the director’s exploration…
“Shall we play a game?” With the advent of computing systems like Apple and Commodore, home computers became a major fad in the early 1980s…
This Michael Winner-directed remake of the 1945 film of the same name, starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason (one of the popular Gainsborough melodramas), related…
Kate Nelligan plays Susan Selky, the mother of a six-year-old boy who disappears without a trace on a short journey to school one summer morning.…
Yellowbeard was the realisation of Graham Chapman’s long-standing desire to film a comic pirate romp in the style of Robert Newton’s celebrated Long John Silver. The…
What seems to be a teen sex comedy – the film started out as a sequel to Malibu High – becomes a violent vigilante movie…
Leonard Zelig (Woody Allen) is a baffling psychological case for doctors at Manhattan Hospital in the early 1920s, when it is discovered that he can…