A troubled Vietnam veteran (John Lithgow) deserts his wife and child shortly after he returns from the war. He returns after living like an animal in…
Browsing: Movies 1988
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Never has song been used so poignantly as in this painful yet curiously fond recollection of post-war Liverpool from director Terence Davies. Imagine a musical…
Upper-class English rose Diana Markham (Jemma Redgrave) and spikey American goth Jenny Hoffman (Kathleen Wilhoite) find themselves linked by a house: Jenny through a pre-adoption…
In one of writer/director Peter Greenaway’s darkest comedies, three generations of womenfolk, all named Cissie Colpitts, drown their menfolk with the acquiescence of the local…
Valley girl manicurist Valerie Dale (Geena Davis) initially thinks she is hallucinating when a spacecraft with three furry aliens crash-lands in her Los Angeles swimming…
In addition to being a passable comedy-horror film, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988) is probably the most extravagant breast fetish movie since the days…
The prospect of an Ernest sequel – especially one with “Christmas” in the title – seemed a quite horrifying thought after Ernest Goes to Camp, one of…
On the night of 17 August 1980, mother-of-three Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep) watches a dingo carry her baby daughter, Azaria, from a tent near Uluru…
From the Monty Python stable, an English caper-comedy with a complex plot involving a gang of hopeless misfits who pull off a successful diamond robbery…
Tina Shepherd (Lar Park-Lincoln) – a young girl with ESP – visits Crystal Lake with her mother and psychiatrist. Her telekinetic powers accidentally resurrect Jason…
Paul (Richard O’Sullivan) and his best friend Frank (John Wells) are electronics boffins who work at testing gadgets for their company’s head office and love…
The true story of Dian Fossey, the anthropologist who spent twenty years with the rare mountain gorillas of Rwanda, is an exhilarating film that begins…
Long-time cult film director John Waters burst into the mainstream with this cheerfully zany spoof of 1960s TV teen dance shows. Ricki Lake may be…
It’s 30 October 1988, and Michael Myers has been in a coma since his pursuit of Laurie Strode was finally stopped ten years ago, in…
Wanderer Sam Hell (professional wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper) is captured by the female-dominated government, ten years after the ten-day World War III, which rendered most…
Motorbike courier Cyril Bender (Phil Davis) and his partner, council garden worker Shirley (Ruth Sheen), are a left-leaning blue-collar couple who are just about getting…
The 1984 horror-comedy hit Gremlins spawned a pack of furry little cinematic knockoffs, including Ghoulies (1984), Critters (1986), and Munchies (1987), but its most cursed…
A psycho in broken ski goggles kills people at a Utah ski resort that he holds responsible for a ski accident death four years earlier.…
“In space, no one can eat ice cream” When Mike (Grant Cramer) and his girlfriend, Debbie (Suzanne Snyder), turn up at the local police station…
Nude nuns, lesbian catfights and snake-cult rituals; what else could this be but a Ken Russell fantasy sextravaganza? In the Peak District, a reptile skull…