Category: 1980s

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1980s / Adventure / Comedy / Science Fiction

Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Generally considered the lesser film of the Back to the Future trilogy, mostly because it is darker and less in fun than the other two, Back to the Future II (originally intended to be titled Paradox) is nonetheless an...

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1980s / Comedy / Fantasy

Scrooged (1988)

Charles Dickens’ classic novel, “A Christmas Carol”, provides the backbone, and the backstory, for this modern update.  It’s become something of a cult classic for people to watch around Christmas time every year, though,...

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1980s / Comedy

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is the perhaps best of the Vacation sequels, and, somehow, the one that feels the most different from the others, probably because it doesn’t actually involve the Griswold family actually traveling anywhere.  You...

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1980s / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Musical

Labyrinth (1986)

Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, Hulk) is cast in one of her first starring roles as Sarah, a teenage girl who has grown tired of her stepmother and father leaving her home alone to babysit...

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1980s / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance

The Princess Bride (1987)

A sick young boy (Savage, Vice Versa) gets a visit from his grandfather (Falk, Vibes), who reads the young lad one of his favorite books, ‘The Princess Bride’. The book is of a beautiful young noble named...

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1980s

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Roger Moore (The Cannonball Run, The Spy Who Loved Me) stars in his fifth turn (of seven) as British super-agent James Bond, in a respectable but not-altogether-exciting adventure.  007 is called in to investigate a...

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1980s / Science Fiction / Thriller

The Abyss (1989)

Despite never experiencing the ocean growing up, Cameron became fascinated with marine science after ravenously watching TV documentaries by Jacques Cousteau, getting dive certified at the age of seventeen. He attended weekly lectures at...

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1980s / Fantasy / Horror

Pet Sematary (1989)

Stephen King adapts his own best-selling novel about a family of four who move from Chicago to a country house in Maine, right next to a bustling street with speeding fuel trucks in the...