“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a…
Browsing: Movies 1986
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“See you later, navigator!”. On 4 July 1978, 12-year-old David Freeman (12-year-old Canadian child actor Joey Cramer) is accidentally knocked out after falling into a…
This remake of the campy 1958 cult classic with Vincent Price is the story of a scientist who accidentally switches heads with a pesky housefly…
Based on a popular long-running New Zealand comic strip by cartoonist Murray Ball, Footrot Flats showcases the kind of gentle laconic humour the Kiwis do…
“I’ve seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly”. A witty parody of a James Bond credits sequence immediately…
Cody Walpole (Henry Thomas, who had starred as Elliott in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), an orphaned 14-year-old American boy, has been living in Australia with his…
Dr Edward Pretorius (Ted Sorel) and his assistant Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) have developed “The Resonator”, an elaborate machine to stimulate the sixth sense through…
Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Julian Sands), Mary Godwin Shelley (Natasha Richardson) and other literary luminaries gather at a Geneva villa on 16…
Set in 1897 and based on the Basil of Baker Street series of books by Eve Titus, this animated Disney film tells the story of…
Before he made the likes of Apollo 13 (1995), Ron Howard directed this small but often enjoyable comedy. When car factory foreman Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton)…
Constructed in short chapters, with a rainbow spectrum of characters taking turns as narrators, Hannah and Her Sisters paints a picture of contemporary New York life, exposing sadness…
Clint Eastwood stars as Sergeant Thomas Highway – a veteran Marine preparing his green recruits for the realities of combat through drill and training bordering…
Turning up at the Chicago apartment shared by old prison buddy Otis (Tom Towles) and his timid sister Becky (Tracy Arnold), Henry (Michael Rooker) slowly…
You have to wonder if the language coach for Highlander ever worked again after you have listened to Christopher Lambert’s non-specific hodgepodge of an accent (he would…
Unassuming Jim Halsey (C Thomas Howell) wishes he hadn’t picked up icy passenger John Ryder (Rutger Hauer) on a dark, rainy night in the middle…
An Indiana high school basketball team triumphs in a classic underdog story based on a real-life incident (and aren’t they always). A cool reception greets…
The cult comic book character Howard The Duck is blasted from his outer space paradise to Cleveland (USA). Here he becomes an unlikely love interest…
Tobe (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) Hooper’s lacklustre remake of the 50s sci-fi favourite is an embarrassing effort which, for the first half at least, substitutes boredom…
Ralph Macchio and Noriyuki “Pat” Morita recreate the roles that brought them international acclaim in The Karate Kid (1984) when karate student Daniel LaRusso (Macchio) accompanies his…
“I myself prefer a big, fat cucumber.” It’s April Fool’s Day, and the sisters of Sigma Alpha Pi have found the perfect place to throw…