Leviathan (1989)
The plot: Set sometime in the near future, we follow a crew of eight on the last few days of their stint working for a deep-sea silver mining operation off the coast of Florida....
Category: 1980s
Annie (1982)
Annie is a musical that has become a fan favorite for those who grew up watching it, though film critics in general have remained rather tepid toward it, citing that it is overblown and clunky. ...
Action Jackson (1988)
Carl Weathers stars as Harvard-educated Detroit cop Jericho “Action” Jackson, who earned his reputation for crossing the line in roughhousing perps. The police captain (Bill Duke) demotes Jackson from lieutenant to desk-jockey sergeant no...
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Australian comedian and actor Paul Hogan (Almost an Angel, Lightning Jack) stars as Mick “Crocodile” Dundee, the famed adventurer of Australia’s rugged outback. Hearing the seemingly tall tales about his survival of croc attacks...
Predator (1987)
A leaner-than-customary Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Major “Dutch” Schaeffer, who, along with his crew of elite special ops commandos, is sent to the jungle of a hostile Latin American country on a covert hostage...
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
One of Woody Allen’s (The Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose) finest films, Hannah and Her Sisters sees the esteemed filmmaker return to Manhattan to deliver one of his most insightfully satisfying stories yet. At its...
Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
Adventures in Babysitting is Chris Columbus’s directorial debut, after years of screenwriting for such Spielberg-produced hits as Gremlins and The Goonies, putting his name on the map as a go-to director of broad family entertainment. He more than borrows...
Raising Arizona (1987)
Joel and Ethan Coen follow up their neo-noir breakthrough, Blood Simple, with an entirely different but no less satisfying follow-up, Raising Arizona, which plays out like a somewhat broad and inherently silly farce, but with a...
Roxanne (1987)
Steve Martin (The Lonely Guy, The Man with Two Brains) stars and writes this modern adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s most famous play, “Cyrano de Bergerac”, and while it lacks the classic style and level of...
The Evil Dead (1981)
Sam Raimi’s directorial debut, The Evil Dead, is one in which the target audience, i.e., lovers of good ol’ gory horror flicks, will relish every second of, while your casual moviegoer with a passing interest may...