Initially intended by screenwriter Daniel Waters as a vehicle for Stanley Kubrick (the opening cafeteria scene is a homage to Full Metal Jacket), Heathers took a grenade…
Browsing: Movies 1989
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Disney revived the bumbling inventor comedy of The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) and The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964) with 1989’s Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. In this modern update of the classic…
A rock group travel with a film crew and various groupies and hangers-on to desolate Lake Infinity in the Aussie bush to produce a music…
Richard E. Grant and director Bruce Robinson’s companion piece to Withnail and I (1987) is a dark and delicious satire about an embittered advertising agent who…
The third film in Spielberg’s Indiana Jones series has Indy assisting his eccentric father, Henry (Sean Connery) in nothing less than a search for the…
Adapted from the novel The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome by John Godey, director Walter Hill’s dark revenge drama is a film noir full of…
After the Karate Kid and his mentor triumph at a prestigious tournament, their arch-enemy John Kreese (Martin Kove) seeks to avenge the defeat of his…
A key film in Jean-Claude Van Damme’s career, this is the one that first gave an indication that the Muscles from Brussels could escape from…
Richard Donner’s sequel is only marginally less impressive than the original but was enough to set the law of diminishing returns in motion. Mel Gibson,…
Licence to Kill, the 16th chapter in the 27th year of the Bond series, may also be the dumbest, but who cares? The formula still…
Plucky teenage mermaid Ariel (voiced by Jodi Benson), daughter of King Triton, has a fascination for all things to do with humans. She even has…
James (John Travolta) is a genial New York taxi driver who comes to the rescue of thirty-something accountant Mollie (Kirstie Alley) when she goes into…
Not to be confused with the American film of the same name starring Kirstie Alley, Carrie Fisher and Kate Jackson, this short independent Australian film…
Director Michael Lehman’s follow-up to Heathers is a devastating, funny look at how modern life in America can ruin and devolve even the closest family,…
Heidi, the vain, singing 400lb hippopotamus star of New Zealand’s beloved and top-rated TV show, the Meet The Feebles Variety Hour, discovers her lover, bleary-eyed…
This made-for-television movie from CBS is set in the future (2015), where, following a nuclear war on Earth, the United States and the Soviet Union…
My Left Foot is the amazing true story of Irish painter-poet-novelist Christy Brown, born in 1932 to a poor Dublin bricklayer, one of 22 children of…
A seedy Memphis hotel where each room is a shrine to Elvis Presley (whose spirit pervades the entire movie) is the focus for three stories involving…
As in its funnier predecessors, National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983) and European Vacation (1985), the plot here revolves around the Griswold family, led by Chevy Chase and Beverly…
They say there are a million stories in the naked city. This triple header only tries to tell three – a trio of short movies…