Amity has not suffered a shark attack in years, but the fears of Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) – the widow of Sheriff Brody – resurface…
Browsing: Movies 1987
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Very traditional Hollywood biopic covering the rise to fame of Ritchie Valens, the Mexican-born rock star whose eight months of success were cut short when…
The Last Emperor is a spectacular epic about China’s last emperor, Pu Yi, who lived a cloistered life until the age of three when he was…
Less Than Zero begins promisingly enough with a cynical shot of the American flag and an azure Californian sky dotted with high school mortar boards -…
The first and best Lethal Weapon, this was Mad Mel’s Hollywood breakthrough and the start of his enduring collaboration with Richard Donner in this hard-edged franchise-spawning…
Paul Schrader’s 1987 movie starred ‘Girl Elvis’ Joan Jett as Patti Rasnick, an ambitious young rock chick who is determined to make her rock band,…
It is the end of the third year of the Great War. The Australian forces are fighting in France and the Middle East, more than…
A young knight by the name of Robert Nerra sets out to join King Richard’s crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince (Gabriel…
James Bond roams the world again in search of even more stunts and implausible baddies. The Commies again prove to be the antagonists, but the…
Judith Hearne’s world is an unenviable one. Her memories of an invalid aunt who was not kind to her have, somehow in Judith’s rose-coloured mind,…
“You’re a creature of the night, Michael. Wait till Mom hears about this!” This hugely popular comedic film from 1987 was the first film to…
“12,000 babies will be born in the United States today. Two will already have fallen in love”. In Made in Heaven, Timothy Hutton plays a young…
Following a brush with the law for reckless driving, the pampered lifestyle of rich and spoilt Beverly Hills girl Jessie Montgomery (Ally Sheedy) is transformed…
Jonathan Switcher (Bratpacker Andrew McCarthy) is an aspiring young artist who builds store mannequins. He’s especially proud of one of his more lifelike creations but…
Based on the popular 1980’s He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe cartoon (and the accompanying toy line from Mattel), this live-action movie from notorious…
Two war-damaged young soldiers – Tom Birkin (Colin Firth in his first lead role) and James Moon (Kenneth Branagh in his first cinema film) recover…
Director Norman Jewison set out to make an old-fashioned fairy tale of love at first sight in the manner of Lubitsch or Capra. Moonstruck is set…
While exploring caves in Peru with his annoying doofus son, Paul (Charles Stratton), eccentric “space archaeologist” Simon Watterman (Harvey Korman) – who is trying to…
Kathryn Bigelow’s directorial debut – a sometimes sexy, sometimes boring vampire film with plenty of gorgeous images – begins when farmboy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar)…
April (Michelle Meyrink) is a girl who can make things explode, usually whenever she gets amorous – a curse she’s inherited from her mother (Barbara…