Walking the Edge (1985) – Director: Norbert Meisel – 5/10 (okay/decent)This agreeable piece of pulp fiction is quintessentially mid-eighties in that it still contains much of the 1970s grunge, but with some glimmers of the 1980s glitz already starting to show up, even the soundtrack is ‘analog-synthy’ and ‘saxy’ in […]
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Warner Archive will be releasing a newly restored edition of Michael Cimino’s 1985 neo-noir classic YEAR OF THE DRAGON. Corruption. Extortion. Sometimes, even assassination. For the tradition-bound mob bosses of Manhattan’s Chinatown, there are age-old ways of running things. And now there’s police captain Stanley White’s way. Synopsis: Mickey Rourke […]
It’s Boxing Day! Well, at least in Europe it is. Time to open up the rest of your Christmas presents (and/or box up goods for donations). But for me, this means only one thing….it’s time to watch the Rocky movies again! Now, I know that it’s a stupid pun, but […]
Shout Factory’s new Select label is now preparing a Special Edition of William Friedkin’s action packed crime classic TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985). Special features will be announced later on and we will update this page. Official Synopsis: When a notorious, highly sophisticated counterfeiter murders his partner, Secret […]
“That man is a brownie hound” One of my favorite songs as an 11 year old kid in 1985 was “Don’t You Forget About Me” by Simple Minds. I knew it so well because of the music video which I rewatched again and again. At the time the single was […]
“It’s like killing roaches – you have to kill ’em all, otherwise what’s the use?” Charles Bronson is back as Paul Kersey, peaceful architect turned deadly vigilante in this third (and for my money) most entertaining installment in the Death Wish series produced by Cannon Films. 10 years have passed […]
“Who’s going to believe a talking head? Get a job in a sideshow.” When it comes to horror-comedies Stuart Gordon’s 1985 cult classic RE-ANIMATOR based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft, is a severed head above the rest. Jeffrey Combs stars as Dr. Herbert West, a deranged scientist who attends […]
“You move like a baboon… with two clubbed feet!” We all have those special little movies we may have seen at a young age, really enjoyed and never forgot. One of those for me is Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985). The film was based on a novel series called […]
INTRODUCTION: A HISTORY OF THE LIVING DEAD Return of the Living Dead (1985) is often confused with being a sequel to Night of the Living Dead, but it’s not. That was the first true zombie film directed by George A. Romero. The copyright was never properly filed on Night of […]
The Australian dystopian/post-apocalyptic action/adventure classics that introduced the world to that furious force of nature Mel Gibson will be coming to Blu Ray June 4th from Warner Home Video in a special single release. If you’re a film geek you should surely already know who Mad Max is, if not, […]