Ever-curious ginger kitten Milo and his new farmyard friend, faithful puppy Otis, stray far and wide when a raging river sweeps them away from their…
Browsing: Movies – 1980s
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A psychopathic nutter is killing the members of a 1980s gym/fitness club called “Rhonda’s Workout”. . . armed with a giant safety pin. This cross…
Do you have days when nothing goes right? when you feel disoriented, when everything around you is strange and you seem to be living in…
A thick, incoherent plot trips up this steamy melodrama about fading football player Terry Brogan (Jeff Bridges) sent to track down Jessie Wyler (Rachel Ward), the runaway…
Based on a true incident, Agnes of God tells of the tragic events surrounding the birth of a baby in a Catholic convent of cloistered nuns. The…
Ken Finkleman – writer of Grease 2 (1982) – wrote and directed this sequel to the hilarious 1980 film, Airplane!, retaining most of the characters from the original movie. After…
The tail of a plane slices through dark clouds like a shark fin breaking through the moonlit surf in Jaws . . . and so begins the…
Akira begins as it means to go on – with a nuclear explosion that devastates Tokyo. It ends with pretty much the same, augmented by the…
Young Vietnamese refugee Dinh (Ho Nguyen) arrives in the small Texan shrimp-fishing community of Port Alamo to find work. But resentment from the locals is…
Having previously visited Lewis Carroll in Jabberwocky (1977), Czech surrealist animator and director Jan Svankmajer made his feature bow with this distinctive adaptation, which combines…
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…
“Get away from her, you bitch!” Director James Cameron’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s original 1979 outer space nightmare sees Sigourney Weaver return as Ripley. She is…
In Steve Martin’s fourth collaboration with director Carl Reiner, Martin plays Roger Cobb, an idealistic lawyer who would rather be playing jazz guitar than spending…
Ambitious high-school football player, Stef Djordjevic (Tom Cruise) and his girlfriend (Lea Thompson) dream of winning the college scholarships that will enable them to leave their depressed…
Sleazy pet store owner Lou Gutchel (Sydney Lassick) has been dog-snatching puppies for the illegal research experiments of unscrupulous pharmaceutical executive Slade (Dean Jagger). Meanwhile,…
It is graduation time at California’s surf-side Pacifica College – the culmination of four years of sun, sea, surf and occasional study. Before donning their caps and gowns,…
Four dangerous and delusional psychopaths escape from ‘The Haven’ – a maximum-security psychiatric hospital – when the electric doors fail during a power blackout. Paranoid…
19-year old “King of Alphabet City” Johnny (Vincent Spano) is a drug dealer and a collector for the mob. He also torches buildings, intimidates nightclub…
William Hurt made his film debut in this sci-fi/horror flick – unquestionably one of the trippiest movies ever released by a Hollywood studio – playing…
Amadeus had all the markings of a pretentious little art film – After all, how could a biography of Mozart not seem dull? But nothing could…
