Not every schoolboy at Eton becomes a Russian spy like Guy Burgess. Why, then, did this celebrated defector turn against his crown and country to…
Browsing: Movies – 1980s
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This sequel to Every Which Way But Loose (1979) typifies the kind of lightweight, disposable comic vehicles that paid Clint Eastwood’s rent in the late…
A serial killer is loose in Buenos Aires – could he be the mysterious tenant who comes to share Adrian’s apartment? Look away, all those…
An above-average made-for-cable chiller that makes some telling points about the nature of voyeurism. Lesley Ann Warren plays an avant-garde artist in search of inspiration…
In the (future) year of 1994, Alphie (George Gilmour) and Bibi (Catherine Mary Stewart) – two sweet, naive youths from Moose Jaw, Canada – travel…
The opening scene, in which a schoolgirl is violently dragged into the woods by an unseen and barely explained supernatural force, is genuinely terrifying, while…
A group of eight privileged college friends gather at the isolated island mansion of Vassar student and heiress Muffy St. John (Deborah Foreman from Valley Girl)…
Ex-cop Frank Dooley (John Candy) and inept lawyer Norman Kane (Eugene Levy) cause chaos as guards at the Guard Dog Security Company. The duo don’t…
Arthur Bach (Dudley Moore) is a weak, spineless, noisy little creep, who also happens to be a midget, a millionaire, and an alcoholic, and who…
The perpetually intoxicated millionaire, Arthur Bach (Dudley Moore), is now happily married to Linda (Liza Minnelli), the loyal and understanding woman he fell in love…
Assault of the Killer Bimbos begins at a go-go club located somewhere in the twilight zone. On a tiny stage in front of leering creeps,…
A father, involved in murder and other vile activities, introduces his sons to a life of crime. This peculiar movie, based on an actual family…
Atlantic City is a sweet and flaky movie about an assortment of down-and-outs. Lou (Burt Lancaster) is an ageing numbers runner living on the fringe of…
Z Special Force – also known as the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) – was a secret Australian Special Forces reconnaissance and sabotage unit during World…
This Second World War drama was based on French director Louis Malle’s own childhood experiences. In Nazi-occupied France a 12-year-old boy is sent to a strict…
An ill-cast but effective Al Pacino is having a host of domestic troubles as playwright Ivan Travalian. His wife has left him for a guy…
This sequel to Angel (1984) has former teen hooker Molly “Angel” Stewart (now played by Betsy Russell replacing winsome Donna Wilkes, star of the first…
Gabriel Axel’s Danish film – and 1987’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film – is an Isak Dinesen tale about a 19th-century French servant and…
Diane Keaton is JC Wiatt, the quintessential Ms. magazine career girl – married to her job, working twelve hours a day, making six figures a year,…
An absorbing, highly charged, teenage romance by writer-director John Sayles. The emotional story of star-crossed young lovers stumbles over occasional holes in the plot, yet…