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,…
Browsing: Movies – 1980s
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
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…
Five directors contributed to this scattershot collection of bawdy sketches satirising everything from dating to late-night TV via B-grade sci-fi movies and advertising. The anthology…
The threat of a terminal genetic condition sparks the reconciliation of two brothers (Kevin Costner and David Grant) during America’s toughest bicycle race in the…
When John Travolta dropped out of American Gigolo everyone said he was ruining his career. But Travolta took a walk and Richard Gere stepped into his Georgio…
Six young yuppies – Jeff (Mark Erickson), Rob (Mark Lindsay Chapman), Lynn (Fiona Hutchison), Paul (Stephen Shellen), Terri (Caroline Barclay) and Cynthia (Sarah Torgov) – fly…
American Pop is the animated story of a Russian-Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th…
The archetypal wolf fable, An American Werewolf in London overshadowed equally good The Howling (1981) with Oscar-winning SFX and its classic man-to-wolf transformation. Two American students, David Kessler (David Naughton)…
Filming of Americana began in 1973 when David Carradine was the star of the popular Kung Fu series and continued intermittently over the years until…
This television movie made for NBC-TV is a sequel that seems determined to induce sleep. An ugly, possessed lamp (yep, a possessed *lamp*) purchased at…
A “prequel” to the 1979 hit finds another family – the Montelli’s – falling prey to supernatural forces at the infamous Long Island home. The…
After exposing a pair of phoney spiritualists based in the notorious Long Island town, investigative reporter John Baxter (Tony Roberts) laughs at the legend and…
Seeking to dethrone Disney as the king of animated features, a young mouse named Fievel roared into cinemas in 1986’s An American Tail. Former Disney animator…
In an isolated space station millions of miles from Earth in the year 2036, Max 404 – an almost-human robot – learns that he is…
23-year-old Donna Wilkes plays 15-year-old Molly, or “Angel” if you’re one of the few that have ties to her nighttime activities as a prostitute. At…
The hardboiled 1940s private-eye movie tradition goes south in director Alan Parker’s outlandish thriller, slipping its metropolitan moorings amid a world of sin, superstition and…
“Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow, it’s only a day away!” Famed cartoon strip character, star of radio and Broadway, Little Orphan Annie came to…