Carl Weathers, the former Oakland Raiders star who sparred with Sylvester Stallone in three Rocky movies, stars in the title role of Sgt. Jericho ‘Action’…
Browsing: Movies – 1980s
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Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue) takes a babysitting job in the Chicago suburbs to look after two kids; the 15-year-old Brad (Keith Coogan) who has a…
After making the wonderful Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985), former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam made this epic 126-minute fantasy which cost around $50…
Most cult classics didn’t start out trying to be that way. We’re fairly confident the people behind The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Death Race 2000 (1975) and maybe even Santa…
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…
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…
Unbelievably shrill Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kathy Ireland makes her cinematic debut as Wanda Saknussemm, a bespectacled and insecure Valley Girl who lives with her…
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,…