Wherever it was shown, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation Of Christ caused controversy and sometimes violent demonstrations, whether in Protestant America and Great Britain or Catholic Italy.…
Browsing: Movies 1988
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Following their first pairing in The Lost Boys (1987), the Two Coreys™ cemented their reputation as a cool film double act in this teen comedy.…
Basically a 95-minute advertisement for McDonalds and Coca-Cola with a plot stolen from E.T. (1982), Mac and Me concerns wheelchair-bound adolescent Eric Cruise (Jade Calegory) who moves…
In this comedy thriller from director Jonathan Demme, Michelle Pfeiffer donned a curly brunette wig and proved that she was a deft hand at lighthearted…
Although Director Martin Brest, whose big claim to fame is Beverly Hills Cop (1984), never really manages to do justice to their talents, one would be hard-pressed not…
Laid-back jazz trombonist Harry Washello (Anthony Edwards) answers a random wrong number call to a phone booth outside a diner in Los Angeles in the…
Feisty British director Alan Parker takes on the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi Burning as two white FBI agents head up a government probe into the disappearance…
In this underrated horror film, college student Allan Mann (Jason Beghe), a disciplined athlete, becomes a quadriplegic after being hit by a truck while out…
Made when Michael Jackson was still the biggest pop star in the world and before all the tabloid attention, this is, unfortunately, a bit of…
“Barbarella Goes Shopping” is the premise of this clunky cosmic satire, saved by Kim Basinger’s hitherto untapped flair for light comedy. She plays Celeste, a…
Encouraging proof that small budgets and unknown actors can sometimes produce big hits through word of mouth, this is a warm and inviting look into…
Based on short-lived TV comedy Police Squad, and pulling on a tradition stemming from the success of films like Airplane! (aka Flying High) (1980) and Top Secret (1984), The Naked Gun: From…
An outstanding fable from New Zealand director Vincent Ward, which switches in time between monochrome Cumbria in 1348 and the colourful modern-day Antipodes. A medieval mining…
A slam-bang action film with 6′ 4″ martial arts hero Steven Seagal (in his film debut) as Nico Toscani – a karate-chopping cop out to…
Alice (Lisa Wilcox) goes through the blood-stained looking glass in one of the best Freddy Krueger episodes, given a wonderfully different European art-horror feel by…
11-year-old London schoolgirl Anna Madden (Charlotte Burke) is suffering from glandular fever at home. Bored and lonely, she draws an imaginary house – and is…
Commandant Lassard has finally reached retirement age and the whole gang fly down to Miami to watch him receive an award. The only problem is…
Paranormal service is resumed. This time in Chicago’s skyscraping Hancock Building. Bruce Gardner (Tom Skerritt) is the maintenance manager there. Pat (Nancy Allen) is his…
Having censured the old world order for allowing itself to be enslaved by modern technology in Koyaanisqatsi (1983), director Godfrey Reggio condemns it for the merciless…
In the 1300s, as the Black Death ravages Europe, Lucifer makes a deal with the sinister Father Thomas Seaton (William Beckwith, offering eternal life to…