Without a doubt the most ambitious made-for-television musical movie ever made, Copacabana is based on the Top 10 million-selling 1978 single of the same name by…
Browsing: Movies 1985
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Naive and clean-cut young Vic Ajax (Reed Birney) has been sentenced to death in the electric chair for crimes he didn’t commit. The story unfolds…
At what point must one consider an artificially created entity a life form? The questions director Simon Wincer raised about artificial intelligence in 1985 would…
Director Mike Newell wanted an unknown actress to play the part of 28-year-old murderess Ruth Ellis – the last woman to be hanged in Britain…
The last film in George A Romero’s classic original zombie trilogy, Day of the Dead was generally considered to be the weakest of the three…
Lamberto Bava’s mid-80s Italian monster-fest features a group of people who are trapped in a large cinema in West Berlin that is infected by ravenous…
Amnesia, mistaken identities and danger befall a bored housewife who becomes involved with a free-spirited young woman. Rosanna Arquette plays Roberta Glass, a bored Yuppie…
Based on a 1932 French movie entitled Boudu Saved From Drowning, and the very first R-rated picture ever to come out of that bastion of squeaky-cleanness,…
Through the merciless imagination of an old lady, where terror and fascination lure some of the most beloved characters of contemporary literature into reality and…
This satire on the Australian dream – the idea that everyone is entitled to a piece of God’s own country on which to build their…
Down-on-his-luck Sydney private investigator Cliff Hardy (Bryan Brown) is hired by wealthy Marion Singer (Belinda Giblin) to look into the disappearance of her husband, John…
In the distant future, the population of Earth is at war with the reptilian Draconians. Two pilots, one from each side, crash-land on a desolate…
This campy, low-budget movie has a trio of extra-terrestrial scientists landing near a lake in the US frequented by horny college students. The aliens -…
With an imagination fuelled by countless science-fiction films and magazines, young Ben Crandall (Ethan Hawke) dreams of adventure, excitement and discovery beyond the stars. Sharing…
This convoluted spy thriller stars Timothy Hutton as college dropout Christopher Boyce who obtains US secrets and – with his drug-addicted buddy Daulton Lee (Sean…
Chevy Chase, one of the original Saturday Night Live team and the embodiment of laid-back Los Angeles 1980s humour, stars here in the first of…
Has Jason returned from the dead? (SPOILER ALERT: No, he hasn’t) Or is there a copycat killer doing a good impersonation of the Camp Crystal…
Nerdish small-town teenager Charlie (William Ragsdale) discovers that his new neighbour, Jerry Dandridge (veteran stage, film and television actor Chris Sarandon), is a vampire and…
American teen flicks are never short of clichés, and this musical comedy is no exception, packing in most of the genre conventions on the way…
It didn’t earn half as much money as fellow ’80s family films like Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) or E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), but for some reason, it…