Cocktail (1988)
Tom Cruise (Top Gun, Days of Thunder) stars as ex-Army soldier Brian Flanagan, who has his dreams of becoming a success in New York City shattered when he can’t even find a job even in...
Category: 1980s
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Poltergeist proved such a success in 1982 that a sequel seemed an inevitability for the financially struggling MGM, whose president, Freddie Fields, regarded the property as a check waiting to be cashed. Tobe Hooper...
Moonstruck (1987)
Moonstruck is a critically-acclaimed crowd-pleasing romance that would go on to garner six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, with trophies handed out to Cher (The Witches of Eastwick, Mask), Dukakis (I Love Trouble, Mighty Aphrodite),...
The Dead Pool (1988)
The fifth and final Dirty Harry film may not go out with a bang, but it is an amusing and exciting enough cop thriller to please the genre fans. There are no social obstacles to hurdle...
About Last Night… (1986)
SNL alum Tim Kazurinsky (aka “Sweetchuck” from the Police Academy films) reworked David Mamet’s one-act play from the mid-1970s, “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” into the modern-day with About Last Night… (reportedly, the title changed due to some...
The Lost Boys (1987)
Lucy Emerson (Wiest) is a divorced mother of two teenage sons, Michael (Patric) and Sam (Haim), who relocates to the strange oceanside California town of Santa Carla, which is filled with a mix of punk...
The Island (1980)
You can lead Michael Caine (Dressed to Kill, The Italian Job) to water, but you can’t make him act. At least, if the films he’s done anywhere near it is any indication. You think he...
Heathers (1989)
A prescient, blackly comic satire on the effect that school cliques have on youth that can’t seem to fit in, Heathers would jokingly refer to teen angst having a body count. At the time of the...
Poltergeist (1982)
Steven Spielberg’s intended follow-up to Close Encounters of the Third Kind was a darker alien-invasion concept called Night Skies. The story idea came during Spielberg’s UFO research, stumbling across the Kelly-Hopkinsville incident in which aliens...
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Although dominated by its impressive special effects, Honey I Shrunk the Kids (originally scripted with the title, Teenie Weenies) thankfully proves to be more than just a treat for the eyes. For a family film, it is...