
Joe Dylanne is a plainclothes NYC cop with a badge… and a robust personality. He always resorts to unconventional methods in order to capture the city’s slickest criminals. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Miss Right (1982) Paul Williams, William Tepper, Margot Kidder, Karen Black, Comedy

After falling for Juliette, the woman of his dreams, a womanizing journalist in Rome, Italy, must dump his numerous female lovers one by one, but not all of them take it well. Read More »
Paper Marriage (1988) Alfred Cheung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Maggie Cheung, Joyce Godenzi, Action, Comedy

An illegal immigrant in Hong Kong, unable to get a Green Card, is subjected to humiliation, and does odd things to survive – like taking part in a mud wrestling match. Read More »
Shogun Assassin (1980) Robert Houston, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ôki, Action, Adventure

Long ago there was a great samurai warrior who served his Shogun honorably. The Shogun however grew paranoid as he became more and more senile. Read More »
Witness in the War Zone (1987) Nathaniel Gutman, Christopher Walken, Hywel Bennett, Marita Marschall, Action, Drama, Mystery, War

Don Stevens is an ace reporter sent to Beirut, Lebanon to report on the Lebanese civil war. Read More »
Brimstone and Treacle (1982) Richard Loncraine, Sting, Denholm Elliott, Joan Plowright, Drama, Thriller

Brimstone and Treacle is a modern gothic tale about the evil that men do and the price that must be paid to make things right. Read More »
Garbo Talks (1984) Sidney Lumet, Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Comedy, Drama

Estelle is a one-person protest army: she goes to jail over grocery prices, shames construction workers for catcalls to passing women, and won’t cross a picket line for her son’s wedding. Read More »
Heat Street (1988) Joseph Merhi, Del Zamora, Quincy Adams Jr., Wendy MacDonald, Action

A black boxer whose daughter was murdered by bikers joins up with a white repo man to battle street gangs. Read More »
Punchline (1988) David Seltzer, Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Steven Gold is a stand-up comedian who is flat broke and has recently dropped out of medical school. Read More »
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Terence Davies, Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Drama, Music

The second film in Terence Davies’s autobiographical series (‘Trilogy’, ‘The Long Day Closes’) is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies’s own family. Read More »