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Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden and Ernest Borgnine head an extraordinary cast all at a loss in director James Goldstone’s rotten 1980 disaster movie When Time Ran Out… about a volcano erupting on a […]
Menahem Golan’s 1986 action thriller The Delta Force is a level-headed film of the real-life rescue of a hijacked TWA plane in Greece, in which the terrorists come up against a Delta Force crack team […]
Director Rod Daniel’s 1985 comedy Teen Wolf stars Eighties teen idol Michael J Fox, who is reasonably winsome as Scott Howard, the hairy hero of this surprisingly big-hit comedy about a high school student who […]
Director Clive Donner’s misguided 1981 comedy mystery thriller Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen at least has a good cast on its side: Peter Ustinov, Angie Dickinson, Richard Hatch, Lee Grant, Brian […]
Director Charles Band’s 1984 sci-fi action thriller Trancers [Future Cop] stars stand-up comedian – tough guy character actor Tim Thomerson, who acts tough as Trooper Jack Deth, a rogue 23rd-century cop and bounty hunter. He is […]
Co-writer/ director Todd Phillips’s neo noir origins story Joker is smart and sophisticated, slick and strong, proficient, powerful and pungent, but it is also incredibly nasty, dislikeable and unpleasant. A full-on horror movie portrait of […]
Director Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded by the Light is a good-natured, often amusing and affecting musical comedy drama, inspired by the words and music of Bruce Springsteen, and set in the dark days of Margaret Thatcher’s […]