Mueda was a massacre. The name is that of the village in Northern Mozambique where in 1960 it took place. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Loyalties (1986) Anne Wheeler, Kenneth Welsh, Tantoo Cardinal, Susan Wooldridge
Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton Read More »
Road Meat (1989) Bill R. Bragg, Nick Baldasare, Vicky Welsh, Kim Akins
Two lunatics, Nick and Vick, celebrate their wedding day at the local asylum Read More »
Candy the Stripper (1983) John Thomson, Tyrone Benskin, Nathalie Breuer, Myles Clark
The owner of a seedy, run-down strip club in New Orleans tries to save Read More »
The Key / Kelid (1987) Ebrahim Forouzesh, Mahnaz Ansarian, Abbas Jafari, Amir Mohammad Pourhassan
Calamity by four-year old might be another title for this tense, humorous drama. Read More »
The Deadly Recruits (1986) Roger Tucker, Willoughby Gray, Terence Stamp, Michael Culver
Based on the novel by Anthony Price and originally aired in the UK as part of the “Chessgame” television series Read More »
The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1988) Brian Trenchard-Smith, Wings Hauser, R. Lee Ermey, Robert Arevalo
A tough sergeant and his sidekick roll into a demoralized firebase Read More »
The Umbrella Woman / The Good Wife (1987) Ken Cameron, Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, Steven Vidler
Set in an Australian lumber town in 1939. Marge (Rachel Ward), the bored wife of kindly-but-dull Sonny Read More »
Family Reunion (1981) Fielder Cook, Bette Davis, J. Ashley Hyman, David Huddleston
Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher and matriarch of a problematic family Read More »
Fighting Back (1982) Lewis Teague, Tom Skerritt, Patti LuPone, Michael Sarrazin
It’s a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals’ violences and ravages. Read More »