This underwater epic features spectacular deep-sea special effects and elaborate high-tech hardware. But the story is bewildering and shallow. The plot, which mainly involves a…
Browsing: Movies 1989
Long before Mandy Patinkin became an endearingly obnoxious doctor in Chicago Hope, he was a mottle-headed space creature in Alien Nation. He sensibly chose not to…
This television movie made for NBC-TV is a sequel that seems determined to induce sleep. An ugly, possessed lamp (yep, a possessed *lamp*) purchased at…
Doc Brown’s time machine works its magic once more in this merry sequel to Back To The Future. Barely back to 1985 after his original jaunt,…
Every character in this complex and extraordinary made-for-television comedy film is an easily-recognisable stereotype – seen through the eyes of the main characters, Joe Marriot…
In Betsy’s Wedding, Eddie Hopper (Alan Alda) shows off and gives daughter Betsy (Molly Ringwald) a fabulous formal wedding. What happens next is every bride’s nightmare.…
Fun-loving, guitar-playing, history-flunking airheads Theodore “Ted” Logan and Bill S. Preston, Esquire, first came on the scene in 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. A time-tripping romp,…
Mike Hodges’ haunting and hugely underrated supernatural thriller boasts a terrific performance from Rosanna Arquette as Martha Travis, a fake spiritualist and medium who travels…
Oliver Stone had already ploughed his own personal experiences into his Oscar-winning Platoon, a grunt’s eye view of the Vietnam conflict, but when he returned…
Having absconded to Peru with fellow doctor Dan Cain to continue his experiments under the cover of being a medical volunteer, Dr Herbert West travels…
Tom Hanks plays Ray Peterson, ostensibly taking a relaxing week off work, but in reality, driving his wife Carol (Carrie Fisher) slowly up the wall.…
Casualties of War is a haunting and emotionally moving morality tale, involving the gang rape and murder of a young Vietnamese woman by American soldiers…
Iconoclastic filmmaker Peter Greenaway outdoes himself with this darkly humorous Jacobean fairy tale of eating, love, sex and death. The film boasts breathtaking production design,…
By the end of the 1980s the prolific writings of Woody Allen, which always incorporated wit and comedy within his dramatic arcs, culminated in what…
Set in Baltimore in 1954, John Waters’s hilarious send-up of Grease (1978) and Jailhouse Rock (1957) revolves around juvenile delinquent and Elvis lookalike Wade “Cry-Baby” Walker (Johnny…
When Australian naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) and his young wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) chance upon suave American nutter Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane), a therapeutic…
The year is 1959. John Keating (Robin Williams) is the new English professor at Welton Academy – a stuffy prep school tucked away in the hills…
Featuring the movie debut of pop goddess Kylie Minogue, The Delinquents is set in Australia during the 1950s and presents a gritty love story between two adolescents…
Sal’s Pizzeria has been trading for 20 years and now represents one of just a couple of white businesses in a black area. Tensions begin…
This complicated spy spoof, written by Tom Stoppard, begins with Rupert Purvis (Alan Howard) – who works for a secret service agency known as Q6…
