Seeing this movie in the 1980s as a young man was to fall in love with Michelle Pfeiffer. And just as she is still one…
Browsing: Movies – 1980s
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Nude nuns, lesbian catfights and snake-cult rituals; what else could this be but a Ken Russell fantasy sextravaganza? In the Peak District, a reptile skull…
The Last Emperor is a spectacular epic about China’s last emperor, Pu Yi, who lived a cloistered life until the age of three when he was…
Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) is a bored teenager who lives with his mother and young brother in the remote Starlite Starbrite trailer park and yearns…
Wherever it was shown, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation Of Christ caused controversy and sometimes violent demonstrations, whether in Protestant America and Great Britain or Catholic Italy.…
This provocative 1980 made-for-TV science fiction film is set in Century Portland, Oregon, at the end of the 20th-century in a world of unending rainfall…
Three years after delivering audiences a glimpse of Los Angeles AD2019 (in Blade Runner), director Ridley Scott turned his hand to complete fairy tale indulgence. Visually…
The silly saga of an unjustly accused Texas teenager who becomes a pop hero by getting a punk haircut and some New Wave fashions and…
Less Than Zero begins promisingly enough with a cynical shot of the American flag and an azure Californian sky dotted with high school mortar boards -…
The first and best Lethal Weapon, this was Mad Mel’s Hollywood breakthrough and the start of his enduring collaboration with Richard Donner in this hard-edged franchise-spawning…
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,…
It’s the 1980s – a time of massive unemployment and recession in the UK, with the Cold War still in full swing and Gorbachev, Glasnost…
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…
Following their first pairing in The Lost Boys (1987), the Two Coreys™ cemented their reputation as a cool film double act in this teen comedy.…
The joint US/British space shuttle Churchill is sent to observe Halley’s Comet under the command of Colonel Tom Carlsen (Steve Railsback). While investigating the comet,…
Paul Schrader’s 1987 movie starred ‘Girl Elvis’ Joan Jett as Patti Rasnick, an ambitious young rock chick who is determined to make her rock band,…
It is the end of the third year of the Great War. The Australian forces are fighting in France and the Middle East, more than…
This part fantasy-part documentary – described as “a musical for the 80s” – was written by David Leland, directed by Nigel Finch and produced by…
Jane Chase (Elisabeth Shue) is an American student of primatology who travels to an isolated cliff-top mansion in Scotland to help English anthropologist Steven Philips…
This epic portrait of resistance hero Omar Mukhtar – the titular “Lion of the Desert” – was funded by Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi who had…