The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Short, but so beautifully sweet. The Purple Rose of Cairo sees Woody Allen in peak form in one of his most ingenious comedies. While it may ostensibly lack the weight of some of his more...
Category: 1980s
Black Rain (1989)
Michael Douglas (Romancing the Stone, The Star Chamber) stars as macho NYC detective Nick Conklin, under investigation from Internal Affairs for possibly covering up theft done by his fellow officers in the line of duty....
Police Story (1985)
One of Jackie Chan’s (Cannonball Run II, Wheels on Meals) first big breakthroughs beyond a Hong Kong market, Police Story works well beyond just the standard kung fu fare, as it is, at the same time, also...
The Breakfast Club (1985)
In the mid-1980s, it seemed that writer-director John Hughes (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Sixteen Candles) could no no wrong. That’s certainly the case with The Breakfast Club, the most adult of his teen pictures, and certainly...
Major League (1989)
Major League is meant to make you laugh, pure and simple. Baseball is merely the platform for some funny hi-jinks, but these characters could have been plugged into any sport and it would have been...
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
This film is set in Los Angeles in the 1940s, where part of the city is the fictional Toontown, where all of the famous (and not so famous) cartoon characters (called “Toons”) reside. Bob...
Rocky IV (1985)
Even though Stallone asserted that the Rocky series would conclude with Rocky III, its immense success led MGM/UA’s troubled financiers to clamor for Rocky IV. However, approaching 40 years old, Stallone couldn’t envision further...
Rocky III (1982)
Plans for a third Rocky film to round out the trilogy were underway during Rocky II‘s post-production. Stallone wanted to begin filming within 18 months so he wouldn’t appear too old. Bill Conti began...
Foxes (1980)
Foxes is a coming-of-age story revolving around four teenage girls living in the Los Angeles area, trying their best to deal with raging hormones, peer pressure, drugs, sex, booze, and family demands. Jeanie (Foster, Taxi Driver) is...
Alien Nation (1988)
The seeds of Alien Nation started late in 1985 when producer Richard Kobritz looked for a writer for another horror project after Christine involving a killer doll for Columbia Pictures called Mechanicals. He eventually hired...