Category: 1980s

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1980s / Adventure / Science Fiction

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

Star Trek V marks Shatner’s debut as a feature film director, with his prior directorial experience, like Leonard Nimoy, coming from stage productions and TV episodes. Due to the “favored-nations” contract that stipulated that...

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1980s / Action / Thriller

Runaway Train (1985)

Runaway Train was originally an Akira Kurosawa project called back in the mid-1960s, which would have been an American production for the famous Japanese filmmaker.  The screenplay was written, but unfortunately, the project never...

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1980s / Comedy

D.C. Cab (1983)

DC Cab is a movie that, from all outward appearances, looks like it could be a fun, lowbrow comedy that, with the diverse group of character actors, should deliver some classic moments of hilarity. ...

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1980s / Comedy / Drama

Melvin and Howard (1980)

There are a few acclaimed films that seem very fresh and original at the time, but over time, they are forgotten by most except the people who championed them because they really weren’t as...

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1980s / Drama / Sports

American Flyers (1985)

Kevin Costner plays Dr. Marcus Sommers, a specialist in sports medicine who is taking the time to visit his mother and brother he left in St. Louis when their father past away from a brain...

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1980s / Drama / Thriller

Cocaine and Blue Eyes (1983)

Based on the novel by Fred Zackel, made for NBC by O.J.’s production house, Cocaine and Blue Eyes marks an attempt at a modern noir private investigator flick, complete with voice-over narration, damsels in distress,...

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1980s / Comedy

9 to 5 (1980)

9 to 5 is a mild, but likable office comedy that spins its laughs around a serious issue — sexual harassment and gender discrimination.  In the offices run by Franklin Hart Jr. (Coleman), the...

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1980s / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Science Fiction

Back to the Future (1985)

Back to the Future is pure entertainment, and very successful at that.  Wholly inspired and brilliantly executed, this brainchild of co-screenwriter Bob Gale and director Robert Zemeckis is chock-full of in-jokes and sight gags...