Based on the dystopian novel by George Orwell and set in the totalitarian future state of Oceania, this is the story of citizen Winston Smith…
Browsing: Movies 1984
Dazzling special effects and fancy space hardware dominate this follow-up to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yet, there’s no feeling of awe, mystery or imagination…
Most cult classics didn’t start out trying to be that way. We’re fairly confident the people behind The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Death Race 2000 (1975) and maybe even Santa…
A thick, incoherent plot trips up this steamy melodrama about fading football player Terry Brogan (Jeff Bridges) sent to track down Jessie Wyler (Rachel Ward), the runaway…
In Steve Martin’s fourth collaboration with director Carl Reiner, Martin plays Roger Cobb, an idealistic lawyer who would rather be playing jazz guitar than spending…
19-year old “King of Alphabet City” Johnny (Vincent Spano) is a drug dealer and a collector for the mob. He also torches buildings, intimidates nightclub…
Amadeus had all the markings of a pretentious little art film – After all, how could a biography of Mozart not seem dull? But nothing could…
After exposing a pair of phoney spiritualists based in the notorious Long Island town, investigative reporter John Baxter (Tony Roberts) laughs at the legend and…
23-year-old Donna Wilkes plays 15-year-old Molly, or “Angel” if you’re one of the few that have ties to her nighttime activities as a prostitute. At…
Not every schoolboy at Eton becomes a Russian spy like Guy Burgess. Why, then, did this celebrated defector turn against his crown and country to…
Although it trades in such 1980s phenomena as breakdancing, rapping and graffiti, this exploitative teen pic proves only that the “puttin’ on a show” formula…
Eddie Murphy’s rise from street urchin to mega-millionaire was swift, and it wasn’t long before they were writing specially tailored vehicles for him, the way…
Al Columbato (Nicolas Cage) and Birdy (Matthew Modine) became friends in high school amongst the slums of South Philadelphia despite the extreme difference in their…
Estranged from their wives, best friends Matthew Hollis (Michael Caine) and Victor Lyons (Joseph Bologna) take their respective teenage daughters Karen (Valerie Harper) and Jennifer…
A supreme gothic thriller made on a shoestring budget, but rich in wit, intrigue, style, moodiness and suspense. The plot is deliciously complex and rife…
At spooky old Headstone Manor, eighteen guests are killed in one night in 1975. Ten years later, strange radioactive readings are being picked up in…
Craig Wasson plays Jake, a struggling actor in Hollywood who gets fired from his role as a vampire in a horror-porn flick because he goes…
Although this is the third Hollywood account of the infamous 1789 mutiny, it’s not a remake. Unlike the Charles Laughton/Clark Gable or Trevor Howard/Marlon Brando…
One of the most popular and fondly-remembered fads of the early 1980s was breakdancing. It was a style of dancing popularised in urban areas where…
Although Broadway Danny Rose might be considered one of Woody Allen’s more minor movies, it is a thoroughly charming and often extremely amusing Runyonesque moral fable. Allen…
