Elmore Leonard’s clever screenplay (from his own bestseller) and John Frankenheimer’s staccato direction work effectively to bring about this chilling crime drama with colourful heroes…
Browsing: Movies 1986
The title is a reference to the duration of the relationship between self-absorbed yuppie Wall Street shark John (Mickey Rourke) and smart, divorced Soho art…
“It’s about men, women, choices, sex, ambition, moving in, no sex, risk, underwear, friendship, career moves, strategy, commitment, love, fun, breaking up, making up, bedtime,…
This highly stylised musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes’ novel celebrates the rise teen culture in late 50s London with a mish-mash of pop fashions and…
Ever-curious ginger kitten Milo and his new farmyard friend, faithful puppy Otis, stray far and wide when a raging river sweeps them away from their…
A psychopathic nutter is killing the members of a 1980s gym/fitness club called “Rhonda’s Workout”. . . armed with a giant safety pin. This cross…
“Get away from her, you bitch!” Director James Cameron’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s original 1979 outer space nightmare sees Sigourney Weaver return as Ripley. She is…
Seeking to dethrone Disney as the king of animated features, a young mouse named Fievel roared into cinemas in 1986’s An American Tail. Former Disney animator…
An above-average made-for-cable chiller that makes some telling points about the nature of voyeurism. Lesley Ann Warren plays an avant-garde artist in search of inspiration…
Ex-cop Frank Dooley (John Candy) and inept lawyer Norman Kane (Eugene Levy) cause chaos as guards at the Guard Dog Security Company. The duo don’t…
A father, involved in murder and other vile activities, introduces his sons to a life of crime. This peculiar movie, based on an actual family…
Middle-aged Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) is the poster boy for self-made millionaires. He’s taken his immigrant father’s humble tailor shop and turned it into a national…
Australian police officers Trevor Darling (David Argue) and Nikki Iceton (Gia Carides) have to escort Kath (newcomer Lydia Miller), a young Aboriginal woman, from Sydney…
Robin Williams and Kurt Russell play two of life’s failures in this all-American whimsy set in small-town California. Jack Dundee (Williams) – a daydreamer from…
If you have ever loved someone with great intensity – and against all common sense – you will understand this film perfectly. It is one…
In New Orleans, the steamy city of hot music and spicy food, the odd bribe is all in a day’s work for unconventional cop Remy…
2,000-year-old Chinese sorcerer David Lo Pan (James Hong) controls an evil empire beneath San Francisco’s Chinatown. He has not had a woman in 2,000 years…
David Lynch’s Blue Velvet was a subliminal and strange film. To this day, the image of Dean Stockwell as Ben – lip-synching to Candy Colored Clown…
William Hurt is James, a sympathetic and talented speech therapist in a school for the deaf. Newcomer Marlee Matlin is Sarah, his most difficult pupil…
Chopping Mall is 78 minutes of mean-spirited, unrestrained mayhem featuring robots running amok in a San Fernando Valley shopping mall. The victims are young shopping mall…
