A British haunting/horror film that starts with a bang, but then settles into a slow-moving examination Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
The Color Purple (1985) Steven Spielberg, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey
Forty years in the life of Celie, a poor black woman who endures years of abuse from her father and her husband. Read More »
The Return of the Living Dead (1985) Dan O’Bannon, Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa
When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air Read More »
Blood Debts (1985) Teddy Page, Richard Harrison, Mike Monty, Jim Gaines
Enjoying a picnic Sarah Collins and her boyfriend are surprised by a gang of juvenile hunters. Read More »
Perfect (1985) James Bridges, John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ramey Ellis
Fed up with writing obituaries for a local New Jersey newspaper, the inquisitive and ambitious journalist Read More »
Making the Grade (1984) Dorian Walker, Judd Nelson, Jonna Lee, Gordon Jump
Lazy preppie Palmer Woodrow hires street-smart Eddie Keaton to go to school for him while he lives it up in Europe. Read More »
Desert Bloom (1986) Eugene Corr, Jon Voight, JoBeth Williams, Annabeth Gish
The story involves Rose Chismore’s youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Read More »
The Age of the Earth AKA A Idade da Terra (1980) Glauber Rocha, Maurício do Valle, Jece Valadão, Antonio Pitanga
The day that Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed, Glauber Rocha decided to make this film about the life of Christ in the Third World. Read More »
Burning Snow AKA Xue zai shao (1988) Patrick Tam, Simon Yam, Chuan-Chen Yeh, Chih-Cheng Hsueh
A young woman is forced to marry an older man who runs a roadhouse saloon. Read More »
Heaven’s Touch (1983) Shaun Costello, Michael Knight, Gail Sterling, Dena Ferrara
Henry was a wimp, who was terrified of women, finally becoming a victim of their sexual hungers Read More »