If you only think of Clint Eastwood as two-fisted Dirty Harry, you have a major discovery in store for you . . . Pianist, jazz buff…
Browsing: Movies 1988
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Malta is the location for this Jean-Claude Van Damme martial arts thriller, in which the Muscles from Brussels plays a KGB killing machine intent on…
Chuck Russell’s remake of the 1958 classic film sported a screenplay by Frank (The Shawshank Redemption) Darabont and some truly gnarly effects when the titular…
“This is the start of your new life, Brian, a life full of colours, music, light and euphoria. A life without pain, or hurt or…
Troubled Sydney medical student Ross (Peter Phelps) decides to head north after encountering trouble with the police and a bikie gang who look like ridiculous…
You are a painfully dated 1984 novel by Jay McInerney. You are about the coke-fuelled nightlife of emotionally dead New York magazine fact checkers. You…
Although he’s best known as a musician, Phil Collins actually began his showbusiness career as a child actor. Here, he takes on his first lead…
Child’s Play opens in the middle of a police pursuit with Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon) hot on the trail of Charles Lee Ray (Brad Douriff),…
Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso isn’t just a dedicated tribute to the wonder of cinema, but it’s also a positive testament of imagination, first love, and…
After moving to New York, materialistic, on-the-make Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) becomes disillusioned when wealth and a glamorous job fail to materialise thanks to his…
With Dragnet-style gravity, this movie informs us of the 600 gangs, the 70,000 gang members and the 400 gang-related murders in Los Angeles County each…
Eddie Murphy as the straight man? Oddly enough he wrote the story for John Landis’ film and cast himself as a goody-goody who speaks perfectly…
Based on a play by Michael Palin and Terry Jones, of Monty Python fame, Giles Foster’s comedy is not exactly a masterpiece. The premise involves…
Outback hero Mick Dundee and journalist Sue Charlton have settled down and are living happily together in New York. But their peace is shattered by…
This 1988 made-for-television movie was originally titled Philly Boy and featured former It’s Your Move and The Hogan Family star Jason Bateman as gutsy 18-year-old high…
In Dangerous Liaisons, the visual splendour and moral decadence of 18th century France come vividly alive. It’s sophisticated, witty, and as close to a movie masterpiece…
David Cronenberg is not a director for the squeamish. In Dead Ringers, he returns to his obsession with – and seeming disgust at – the human body.…
Carl Moss (Alexei Sayle) leaves prison where he has taken the rap for his evil twin, Sterling (also Alexei Sayle obvs). Carl has been a…
When it was first announced that Bruce Willis – late of Moonlighting and the dismal Blind Date – was pairing up with John McTiernan to do an action flick,…
This proficient remake of the old David Niven/Marlon Brando screwball comedy Bedtime Story (1964) attempted to cruise by on star power alone. Michael Caine played Lawrence…