This second Nightmare On Elm Street sequel stretches the boundaries of 1980s horror to new limits with wildly inventive and brilliantly executed mayhem from director Chuck Russell. Nancy…
Browsing: Movies 1987
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Lieutenant Commander Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) is a navy officer who gets posted at the Pentagon where he reports directly to the Secretary of Defense…
Claudia Faith Draper (Barbra Streisand) is pretty angry for most of this film but, as she points out, she has a lot to be angry…
When diva Mara Cecova (a role originally intended for Vanessa Redgrave then rewritten to be shot largely from a Steadicam POV) literally breaks a leg,…
Dating from the post-Rambo period when Sylvester Stallone’s career was in the doldrums, this tacky drama has its roots in that old Wallace Beery classic…
The golden age of the screwball comedy might have been the 1930s, but for one all-too-brief moment in late 1987, it was glimpsed once more.…
Not to be confused with the 1982 American movie of the same name, this Australian film – which owes a great debt to both John…
Christine Painter (Julie Walters) is a working-class single mother struggling to make ends meet who opens her own brothel with the aid of an experienced…
Steve Martin plays Neal Page, a crisp, neat and meticulous advertising executive determined to make it home for Thanksgiving. But he is hampered at every turn…
This time our rookie cops try to involve the local community in order to prevent crime. However, their efforts are thwarted by an envious Captain…
An IRA hitman agrees to carry out one final assassination in exchange for a new identity in England. When a priest witnesses one of his…
Big Arnie stars (in the film which more or less established him as a superstar) as Major “Dutch” Schaefer, the leader of an elite special…
The life of doomed gay British playwright Joe Orton gets a no-holds-barred but sure-handed telling by director Stephen Frears in this funny and moving biopic,…
Although he never enjoyed much commercial success during the 80s, many of John Carpenter’s films have garnered cult status over the years. Prince of Darkness…
Part swashbuckling adventure, part tongue-in-cheek parody, The Princess Bride is a fairy tale with a comic edge. The story begins when a gravel-voiced Grandpa (Columbo’s Peter Falk)…
Raising Arizona is a wacky, offbeat action comedy by producer Ethan and director Joel Coen, two brothers who popped out of nowhere with the low-budget murder…
This corny 80’s horror flick has a film company (Cosmic Pictures) shooting a movie at an abandoned high school, Crippen High, where a series of…
This worthy sequel to 1984’s Revenge of the Nerds (subtitled Nerds in Paradise) reunites many of the cast from the first film. Robert Carradine is…
Using the tagline “Thatcher’s Britain with her knickers down!”, this shamelessly stark social comedy by director Alan Clarke was adapted from two controversial plays by…
A gripping study of teen ambivalence with an utter lack of angst, River’s Edge is a creepy, powerful and under-seen picture featuring clever yet believable dialogue and…