Ghostbusters II & Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1984 may not have been a fun year for Winston Smith, but fans of creature comedies got Ghostbusters and Gremlins out of it – and a few years later, a pair of […]
Tag Archives: 1980s
Hope and Glory
Based on the childhood of director John Boorman, Hope and Glory is a look at the British Home Front during the Blitz. The first half of the film follows the […]
The War of the Roses
Danny de Vito directs and stars as a lawyer recounting the tale of the Roses, his close friends, whose long marriage was one of the thorniest he’s ever seen. The […]
Flash Gordon
American football player, hunk and all-round good guy Flash Gordon (Sam J Jones) is rocketed into space by a mad scientist (Topol) to save the earth from imminent alien invasion […]
Escape from New York
Not to be confused with its sequel Escape from L.A., this is Escape from New York; so good they made it twice. John Carpenter’s 1981 action/sci-fi/neo-western hybrid is set in 1997, when Manhattan has […]
The Dark Crystal
On an alien planet, a young Gelfling, Jen, is sent on a quest to repair a giant crystal, thus saving the planet from the evil Skeksis, in this 1982 adventure […]
Powaqqatsi
Director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass reunite in this follow-up to 1982’s Koyaanisqatsi. As with its predecessor, the film is entirely without words or story, and acts as much […]
