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…
Browsing: Movies – 1980s
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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 Force (also known as the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) is a secret Australian Special Forces specialist reconnaissance and sabotage unit during World War II.…
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…
Patchy comedy about a wild party for a soon-to-be-married young man played with moderate charm by Tom Hanks. Aside from Hanks’ likeable presence, the film…
Middle-aged Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) is the poster boy for self-made millionaires. He’s taken his immigrant father’s humble tailor shop and turned it into a national…
It’s hard to imagine who Lyndall Hobbs thought would love her parody of early sixties beach movies like How To Stuff A Wild Bikini (1965) and Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) -…
When Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) is sent back to 1955 in eccentric scientist Dr Emmett Brown’s time-travelling DeLorean, he must successfully get his parents…
Doc Brown’s time machine works its magic once more in this merry sequel to Back To The Future. Barely back to 1985 after his original jaunt,…
Chicago kid Mick O’Brien (Sean Penn) is sent to a juvenile prison for vehicular manslaughter. Unfortunately, the person he has killed is the kid brother…
Harris (Richard Lynch) is the Jim Jones-style leader of a cult called Unity Fields who dies during a mass suicide in a fire in 1973.…
