Jakarta (1988) Director: Charles Kaufman – 2/10 (very bad)The man who made the trailer for this thing should get an award for making the motion picture seem to be something else entirely. I mean the music, the editing and the selection of shots are all just perfect and the VHS […]
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Deep Space (1988) – Director: Fred Olen Ray – 2/10 (very bad)This is basically a low-budgeted rip-off of The Thing (1982), The Blob (1988) and Alien (1979), but without any finesse or sophistication exhibited by these classics. From the very get-go, the motion picture bears all the hallmarks of cheap […]
“The world needs a wake up call…we’re gonna phone it in.” – Gilbert John Carpenter’s 1988 sci-fi/thriller THEY LIVE is a perfect movie to watch in our current social-political climate. The story involves a race of diabolical aliens disguised as humans trying to destroy the world by getting people to […]
In my review for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service I stated that on December 25th I’d be watching two Christmas movies back-to-back: Scrooged and The Star Wars Holiday Special. Well, I’m a man of my word. I decided to kickstart the holy day with one of the most notorious TV […]
“You two are the dumbest bounty hunters I have ever seen!” One of our favorite subgenres at FC is the road movie and so we’ve picked Martin Brest’s 1988 action crime comedy Midnight Run for today’s mad as hell trailer. Robert DeNiro stars as Jack Walsh, a Los Angeles based […]
Growing up in the 80s I first became aware of Bruce Willis from the TV series Moonlighting, in which he played LA gumshoe David Addison. After seeing Die Hard (around age 14) I became a die hard fan like most people who saw it. Many of my after school hours […]
“Rowdy” Roddy Piper stars as Nada, a mysterious drifter who arrives one day in Los Angeles looking to start a new life. He soon gets a job working construction and finds a place to stay thanks to the help of Frank Armitage (Keith David) one of the crew that spots […]
Based on true events in the life of martial arts champion Frank Dux, Newt Arnold’s 1988 action classic BLOODSPORT marked the breakout debut of Belgian actor Jean Claude Van Damme. It was apparent from the beginning that the kid from Brussels possessed a special charisma and style that made him […]
Humor is the main ingredient in Giuseppe Tornatore‘s award winning masterpiece Cinema Paradiso (1988) that pulls you into its wonderful world and doesn’t let go. In the small Italian villa of Giancaldo we meet young Salvatore DeVita (Salvatore Cascio) also known as “Toto” who is an altar boy in church. […]