On 24 March 1989 the 1,000-foot-long oil supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a (well-marked) reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons…
Browsing: 1989
This complicated spy spoof, written by Tom Stoppard, begins with Rupert Purvis (Alan Howard) – who works for a secret service agency known as Q6…
Every character in this complex and extraordinary made-for-television comedy film is an easily-recognisable stereotype – seen through the eyes of the main characters, Joe Marriot…
Director Michael Lehman’s follow-up to Heathers is a devastating and funny look at how modem life in America can ruin and devolve even the closest family,…
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 rock group travel with a film crew and various groupies and hangers-on to desolate Lake Infinity in the Aussie bush to produce a music…
On the death of their father, David (Eric Foster) and Lynn (Kim Valentine) are taken to live with their only known relatives, their Grandmother (Ida…
Although estate agent Clive ‘Bex’ Bissell (Gary Oldman) – the leader of a notorious football hooligan ‘firm’ called the ICC in the late 1980s -…
During the American Civil War, Captain Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) is wounded at the Battle of Antietam. As a result of his injuries, he…
James (John Travolta) is a genial New York taxi driver who comes to the rescue of thirty-something accountant Mollie (Kirstie Alley) when she goes into…
A dog (Hooch) witnesses the murder of its master, crusty old seafarer, Amos Reed (John McIntire). Fastidious small-town police officer Scott Turner (Tom Hanks) then adopts…
Without doubt one of the strangest films of all time, Dr Caligari is akin to an acid trip through the darkest recesses of your brain – but…
Psycho child molester Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) again survives through thick and thin in this unimaginative body counter sequel. Alice Johnson (Lisa Wilcox) thinks she’s…
My Left Foot is the amazing true story of Irish painter-poet-novelist Christy Brown, born in 1932 to a poor Dublin bricklayer, one of 22 children of…
Perfection, Nevada is a dull American town in the middle of the desert which is suddenly attacked by huge man-eating subterranean creatures. Luckily, two dimwitted…
Heidi, the vain, singing 400lb hippopotamus star of New Zealand’s beloved and top-rated TV show, the Meet The Feebles Variety Hour, discovers her lover, bleary-eyed…
Michael Myers was shot at the end of Halloween, burned at the end of Halloween II, left out of Halloween III altogether, then run over, shot, dropped into…
Back in 1963, the British public was stunned to learn that War Minister John Profumo had been sharing the sexual favours of model-showgirl Christine Keeler with Soviet…
Richard E. Grant and director Bruce Robinson’s companion piece to Withnail and I (1987) is a dark and delicious satire about an embittered advertising agent who…
Set in Baltimore in 1954, John Waters’s hilarious send-up of Grease (1978) and Jailhouse Rock (1957) revolves around juvenile delinquent and Elvis lookalike Wade “Cry-Baby” Walker (Johnny…
