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…
Browsing: Movies 1989
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
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…
Without doubt one of the strangest films of all time, Dr Caligari is akin to an acid trip through the darkest recesses of your brain – but…
The Two Coreys™ star in another teenage body/mind switch movie, this time involving bratty Michael Jackson-wannabe Bobby Keller (Corey Feldman), a troubled student who is…
Michael Keaton plays a silver-tongued, lovable rogue in this light-hearted spin on One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), in which a group of four inmates…
Chauffeur Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman) sits in the front seat of the car with his hands on the steering wheel, but the driver’s seat is…
This provocative and downbeat drama set in early 1970s Oregon looks at the sordid life of four junkies who rob pharmacies to support their habits,…
Originally released domestically as Incident at Raven’s Gate, this cult Ozpolitation film is set on an isolated outback farm in South Australia where recently released…
Frank and Jack Baker (real-life brothers Beau and Jeff Bridges) are a cocktail lounge piano duo who content themselves playing to empty bars night after night. But…
Written and (somewhat freely) adapted by director John Milius from Pierre Schoendoerffer’s 1969 novel, Farewell to the King stars Nick Nolte as an American GI (he…
Kevin Costner, as Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, is the epitome of dignified determination as he accedes to a ghostly voice (“If you build it, he…
Although estate agent Clive ‘Bex’ Bissell (Gary Oldman) – the leader of a notorious football hooligan ‘firm’ called the ICC in the late 1980s -…
In this underwhelming addition to the Friday the 13th franchise the indestructible psycho-fiend Jason Vorhees is revived by an underwater electrical cable and heads for New York City…
When a 16th-century tyrant and a river of angry pink ooze threaten New York City, who ya gonna call? (It’s a rhetorical question.) Ghostbusters II…
During the American Civil War, Captain Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) is wounded at the Battle of Antietam. As a result of his injuries, he…
On the death of their father, David (Eric Foster) and Lynn (Kim Valentine) are taken to live with their only known relatives, their Grandmother (Ida…
When Dennis Quaid – all duded out and blonded up as Jerry Lee Lewis – swaggers to the stage to pump a piano and sing…
Michael Myers was shot at the end of Halloween, burned at the end of Halloween II, left out of Halloween III altogether, then run over, shot, dropped into…