“Shall we play a game?” With the advent of computing systems like Apple and Commodore, home computers became a major fad in the early 1980s…
Browsing: Movies – 1980s
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
British comedy-writing legends Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais wrote this funny satire about West Indies-style politics and the decline of British colonialism in the…
With a title drawn from the tagline to Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979), a plot inspired by The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and a soundtrack…
Weeds is the story of an armed robber, Lee Umstetter (Nick Nolte), sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in San Quentin. After two suicide…
When jerky insurance company trainees Dick (Jonathan Silverman) and Larry (Andrew McCarthy) uncover a major fraud that’s costing their company S2M dollars, their high-flying boss…
Triumphant geeks have always been a common theme of writer/director John Hughes, but that triumph was never achieved as raucously as it was in 1985’s Weird…
This B-grade clone of George Miller’s Mad Max 2 was filmed in the Philippines and directed by Cirio H. Santiago. In the post-apocalyptic wastelands (actually a…
Rob Reiner’s portrait of a couple whose growing attraction toward each other threatens to disrupt their friendship revolves around bouncy blonde Sally (Meg Ryan) -…
In this adaptation of Raymond Briggs’s bleak and chilling graphic novel of 1982, elderly British couple Jim and Hilda Bloggs build a shelter and prepare…
Michael Caine gives a full-bodied performance as a middle-aged Briton seeking the truth about the mysterious death of his son (Nigel Havers), who worked as…
A murderer haunts the streets of Globe, a surrealistic copper mining town in Arizona, where four rich, bored and beautiful housewives have been slaughtered and…
After the assassination of a top British government undercover agent, Scotland Yard decides to infiltrate the ranks of the anti-nuclear activist group responsible (the People’s…
The fourteenth movie collaboration of Italian comedy duo Terence Hill and Bud Spencer – an Italian/American co-production – is pure escapist slapstick comedy. Inveterate gambler…
Forget the big-name actors in movies like Around the World in 80 Days, Murder on the Orient Express and Mars Attacks! Here’s the real all-star cast: Mickey, Bugs, Donald,…
Let’s not mince words. Wholly Moses was a stinker! It was a half-arsed biblical spoof about a character called Herschel (Dudley Moore) who was hidden as…
This Michael Winner-directed remake of the 1945 film of the same name, starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason (one of the popular Gainsborough melodramas), related…
This tale of teenage post-high-school hi-jinks in a singles apartment complex in the LA suburbs was written by Cameron Crowe before he made his directorial…
From the studios of Aaron Spelling, this curious made-for-TV movie is set in the small Missouri mining town of Sweetwater during the latter stages of…
Pupils of the infamous St Trinian’s establish the first branch of the ‘Union of British Schoolgirls’, then kidnap the daughter of a wealthy Arab prince…
Val Kilmer and Joanne Whalley star in a tale about a baby whose safekeeping will overthrow an evil empire, but they never look comfortable in…