Blade Runner (1982)
The date is November 2019. The city is Los Angeles. Earth has undergone massive population explosions in the urban areas, the city landscape is a mish-mash of every culture, and almost everywhere you go...
Category: 1980s
Trancers (1984/1985)
B-movie maestro Charles Band directs this low-budget sci-fi blending of Blade Runner, The Terminator, James Bond flicks, the John D. MacDonald novel “The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything” (which had been adapted into...
Hairspray (1988)
Kitsch-master John Waters, after a rare seven-year hiatus from making films, takes a loving, though critical, look back at the early 1960s, utilizing the craze for dance shows on television to explore heavier issues...
The Terminator (1984)
The simple premise: A killer android (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sent back to 1984 to assassinate the mother (Linda Hamilton) of a resistance leader of the future. A soldier of that resistance (Michael Biehn) is also...
Brainstorm (1983)
Brainstorm serves as a new-age science fiction film, treating the future as a mind-blowing and life-altering experience for those who participate, though the film stays grounded within the realm of science for most of the...
Hands of Steel (1986) | Vendetta dal Futuro | Atomic Cyborg | Fists of Steel | Return of the Terminator
Hands of Steel is an Italian-produced film obviously influenced by James Cameron’s The Terminator, if combined with the basic plot of First Blood. Set in the near future (the marketing lists the year as 1997,...
Cyborg (1989)
In the future, New York, after the dreaded nuclear holocaust, is a wasteland of lawlessness and gangland thuggery. Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a skilled martial arts warrior named Gibson Rickenbacker, a “slinger”(aka, a mercenary...
RoboCop (1987)
A fantastic science fiction film, subversively posing as a cheesy b-movie, RoboCop is one of the smartest, funniest, and gutsiest movies of its era. Filled to the brim with cheeky social commentary, this is one...
Overboard (1987)
Real-life couple Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn star in this loopy comedy, their third (and, thus far, final) time, in sort of a variation on Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”, with an amnesia...
American Dreamer (1984)
JoBeth Williams stars as suburban Ohio housewife and mother Cathy Palmer, who escapes her joyless marriage in her spare time by reading her favorite romantic thriller novels, all starring a Modesty Blaise-like globe-hopping female...