The presence of distinguished real-life husband and wife Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy makes this saccharine-sodden retread of Cocoon (1985) worth watching. They play residents of a…
Browsing: Movies 1987
84 Charing Cross Road is a true story in which Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins give distinguished performances as two strangers on opposite sides of the…
Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue) takes a babysitting job in the Chicago suburbs to look after two kids; the 15-year-old Brad (Keith Coogan) who has a…
It is graduation time at California’s surf-side Pacifica College – the culmination of four years of sun, sea, surf and occasional study. Before donning their caps and gowns,…
Five directors contributed to this scattershot collection of bawdy sketches satirising everything from dating to late-night TV via B-grade sci-fi movies and advertising. The anthology…
Six young yuppies – Jeff (Mark Erickson), Rob (Mark Lindsay Chapman), Lynn (Fiona Hutchison), Paul (Stephen Shellen), Terri (Caroline Barclay) and Cynthia (Sarah Torgov) – fly…
The hardboiled 1940s private-eye movie tradition goes south in director Alan Parker’s outlandish thriller, slipping its metropolitan moorings amid a world of sin, superstition and…
This Second World War drama was based on French director Louis Malle’s own childhood experiences. In Nazi-occupied France a 12-year-old boy is sent to a strict…
Gabriel Axel’s Danish film – and 1987’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film – is an Isak Dinesen tale about a 19th-century French servant and…
Diane Keaton is JC Wiatt, the quintessential Ms. magazine career girl – married to her job, working twelve hours a day, making six figures a year,…
It’s hard to imagine who Lyndall Hobbs thought would love her parody of early sixties beach movies like How To Stuff A Wild Bikini (1965) and Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) -…
An Alien Investigation and Defence team are dispatched to hunt down some extra-terrestrial aliens who have depopulated a small town, using the humans as stock…
An autobiographical account of Henry Chinaski – a booze-soaked poet-writer (Charles Bukowski wrote the screenplay based on his experiences) with Mickey Rourke in the title…
Brian Dennehy stars as self-obsessed middle-aged American architect Stourley Kracklite who is travelling to Italy to supervise an exhibition in memory of the 18th-century French…
Eddie Murphy is back in this sequel to the hit 1984 action comedy and the set pieces are even more spectacular – shame they forgot about…
She tried to go straight, she really did, but they just won’t let Wilma McClatchie be. When Big Bad Mama II opens, the evil banker and land…
This innovative musical love story set against a gangland fantasy takes place in a slightly warped futuristic version of north London, now a dangerous and…
Based on Cheech Marin’s parody of Bruce Springsteen’s rock anthem Born in the USA, this weak-kneed effort lacks the wit of the Marin recording and…
The setting is the Washington news bureau of a major TV network; the focus is on three aspiring journalists climbing the ladder to national success.…
In an effort to meet tuition costs, Todd Barret (John Dye) an enterprising Arizona State student and aspiring businessman convinces his good-looking buddy, Brett (Steve Lyon),…
