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
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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…
American cinema box office receipts in 1989 totalled a record five billion dollars – Batman, Tim Burton’s incredibly over-hyped adaptation of the DC comic, accounted…
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…
Shelved for a long time – the $16 million film was actually made in 1986 but sat on the shelf due to a legal dispute…
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…
Celia (a splendid performance from youngster Rebecca Smart) is a sensitive nine-year-old with a strong imagination who lives with her parents in a suburb of…
On 26 December 1985 – while having a break from Manhattan in a Catskills cabin with his wife, Anne (Lindsay Crouse), their son, Andrew (Joel…
Iconoclastic filmmaker Peter Greenaway outdoes himself with this darkly humorous Jacobean fairy tale of food, 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…