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.…
Browsing: Movies 1987
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A seemingly friendly stranger (Malcolm McDowell) appears at the door of a secluded house in the woods. He asks the woman living there (Madolyn Smith)…
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),…
Set in the future (in the year 2017) with the Earth reduced to a barren wasteland, this science-fiction thriller starred Melanie Griffith and David Andrews.…
A promising young music student named Anna (Vivienne Greaves) is attacked in her university room and thrown from the window. Miraculously, she survives, but is…
Mark Clifton (John Doyle, who would go on to become Rampaging Roy Slaven of the Roy and H.G. team) is an estate agent in Australia who…
In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of deserting soldiers wander around in the acid rain avoiding mutants until they find shelter in an abandoned underground…
Richard Attenborough’s Cry Freedom is in the same league as his award-winning Gandhi (1982) – a rare, uplifting film that manages to thrill and excite its audience, glueing you…
”For more than 40,000 years, Australian Aborigines have lived in harmony with their land. Many of their animals are sacred. The most dangerous and awesome…
It’s the summer of 1963. Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) is a Catskills summer camp dance teacher (moonlighting as a “dirty dancer” in sleazy bars) who…
With a combined weight of half a ton – and that’s without the obligatory gold teeth and chains – it was hard to ignore rappers…
When Los Angeles is confronted with a series of bizarre crimes, it is up to by-the-book cop Joe Friday and his unconventional new partner Pep…
On the island of St Josephs in the British West Indies during the 18th Century, slaves are flogged in public with a “dragonard ” (whip)…
This punk-rock road movie revolves around two friends – spiky-haired New York punk Grant (Jon Cryer from Pretty in Pink) and mohawked ‘Biscuit’ (Daniel Roebuck…
Peter Richardson’s film is more of a student prank than a subversive satire in the tradition of Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel or Lindsay Anderson’s if……
Now considered a trial run for the more moving, horrifying and involving Schindler’s List (1993), Steven Spielberg’s drama, set in China during the Second World War,…
Jim Varney – who had been on Fernwood 2 Night and other TV shows since 1976 – created a rubber-faced numbskull character called Ernest P…
Sam Raimi has the genius to play blood-squirting horror for laughs, and this thrill-packed heaven for gore-hounds is wonderfully ridiculous. The film starts with an…
Michael Douglas made two films in 1987 that hit a nerve and captured the prevailing respective cultural sentiments of “Greed is good” and “Sex is…
A money-grubbing widow takes her beautiful children to live with their religious zealot grandmother and ailing grandfather. Hell-bent on claiming the substantial inheritance their deaths…