Director Harry Bromley Davenport doesn’t much rate his British horror. He called it, “An extraordinary mess . . . It’s rubbish”. He may have a…
Browsing: Movies – 1980s
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An intelligent, downbeat coming-of-age film set in Australia in 1962. The 15-year-old protagonist Danny (Noah Taylor) suffers heartbreak when the girl he loves – the…
This thriller/romance is set in Indonesia (though filmed in the Philippines) in 1965, just before the fall of the Sukarno regime. Civil war is breaking…
Yellowbeard was the realisation of Graham Chapman’s long-standing desire to film a comic pirate romp in the style of Robert Newton’s celebrated Long John Silver. The…
Barbra Streisand spent fifteen years of her life trying to get Yentl on the screen. Every cynic in the film industry told her it could not be…
A chap called Yahoo Serious wrote, produced, directed and starred in this Australian spoof biography of Albert Einstein – a naive wild-haired Tasmanian scientist who…
In this version of the legend of Billy the Kid – set during an important frontier war – the young William H Bonney joins a…
What seems to be a teen sex comedy – the film started out as a sequel to Malibu High – becomes a violent vigilante movie…
This two-hour feature was one of the last productions of the BBC’s Play for Today and depicted events in a Welsh valley after a nuclear holocaust.…
An entertaining cross between Porky’s and Carrie which stars Scott Baio, alias Chachi from Happy Days, as Barney, a nerdy high-school senior who gets zapped…
Following the deaths of their wives in a car crash, doctors and twin brothers Oswald and Oliver Deuce (Brian and Eric Deacon) channel their grief…
Luis Valdez directed this film adaptation of his hit stage musical, which is loosely based on the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder trial that unfairly convicted…
