Vincent Price – appearing as Julian White, the uncle of an executed murderess (Martine Beswick) – narrated this Amicus/Hammer-style anthology of macabre stories, relating tales…
Browsing: Movies 1987
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“In Vietnam, the wind doesn’t blow. It sucks” Stanley Kubrick’s penultimate film is a harrowing, foul-mouthed and violent Vietnam War drama that explores the madness…
While Fantastic Planet (1973) is Rene Laloux’s most famous film, Gandahar is a close second. Everything is calm and peaceful. The Gandaharian community has made great…
Set in Virginia in 1968, Gardens of Stone stars James Caan as Sgt Clell Hazard – a decorated combat veteran whose ambivalence towards the war in Vietnam (“It’s…
Nerdy 13-year-old suburban kid Glen (Stephen Dorff in his debut film role) is having a bad time: His parents (who have gone away on vacation)…
Good Morning Vietnam is a long, rambling and rather pointless vehicle for the multifaceted comic genius Robin Williams, but his performance is a one-man tour de…
A great deal of publicity signalled big things for this tale of sexual desire run off the rails in a sleepy Australian country town, but…
On 10 May 1969, men of the 101st Airborne Division are ordered to take Hill 937 (aka “Hamburger Hill”) in the A Shau Valley of…
Woodcutter’s children Hansel (Hugh Pollard from Simon and the Witch) and Gretel (future EastEnders and Emmerdale star Nicola Stapleton) are sent into the woods to…
This overly sentimental comedy from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment resembles a watered-down, terrestrial remake of ET (1982). It’s a rehash of the old “innocent monster versus…
Bob Dylan is the reclusive ageing rocker Billy Parker who is coaxed out of retirement on a Pennsylvania chicken farm to travel to England and…
“We have such sights to show you.” Allegedly once called Sadomasochists From Beyond the Grave and based on the book The Hellbound Heart, Clive Barkers Hellraiser was one of the…
This movie from Jack Sholder, the director of Alone In The Dark and A Nightmare On Elm Street (Part 2), begins with an action sequence…
Hope and Glory is director John Boorman’s autobiographical look at growing up as a young boy in London during the brutal bombing that the city…
Following in the footsteps of the first film – and magnificently ignoring the second – Howling III integrates werewolves into social life and acknowledges their…
Hotshot Air Force test pilot Tuck Pendelton (Dennis Quaid) is placed in a capsule and miniaturised to the size of a microbe to take part…
Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep both deliver tour-de-force performances as drunken Depression-era drifters plagued by their pasts. Francis (Nicholson) is haunted by memories of the…
Lyle Rogers (Warren Beatty) and Chuck Clarke (Dustin Hoffman) are good-natured but hopelessly talentless New York songwriters and lounge singers. When the women in their…
Featuring Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe with a backdrop of several Pet Shop Boys songs from their first two LPs, this surreal plotless film was…
Norman Pett’s Jane comic strip originally appeared in the Daily Mirror from December 1932 to October 1959 featuring the misadventures of a hapless heroine who…