Tag: 1980s

The Karate Kid Part II (1986) – Review

While I’ve always found The Karate Kid to be too twee for my personal tastes, I have to say I do get why the high-kicking

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Wild Geese II (1985) – Review

When it comes to well formulated plans of grizzled dudes going wildly awry, the story behind Wild Geese II manages to somehow match the rather

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Anthropophagous (1980) – Review

Despite coming saddled with a title that I’ve never been accurately able to pronounce, Anthropophagous (also known among other things as The Grim Reaper), comes

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The Karate Kid (1984) – Review

It had to happen sooner or later…There comes a time when every diligent movie blogger finds when they’ve no choice but to have to sit

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Golgo 13: The Professional (1983) – Review

While the natural state of an animated movie from Japan is to use it’s near limitless medium to concoct wild, fantasy worlds, or grim dystopian

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Lensman (1984) – Review

Chances are, if you’re from an older generation, you’ve probably been affected (or infected as the case may be) by Anime long before you ever

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Escape From The Bronx (1983) – Review

You have to hand it to Italian maestro of mayhem, Enzo G. Castellari. Why even give the slightest of shits about such things as an

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Venus Wars (1989) – Review

The issue of style over substance is something that is just as highly subjective to an individual moviegoer as comedy, or what kind of horror

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The Company Of Wolves (1984) – Review

The 1980s saw its fair share of werewolf movies that broke the mold and played fast and loose with the conventions and lore of lycanthropy

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Vampire Hunter D (1985) – Review

Throughout the early 80s, Anime as we knew it was more directed at families, or animated series airing on television; but in 1985, one of

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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ’80s Action Films Ranked

Arnold Schwarzenegger burst onto the action film scene in the 1980s with his iconic role in Conan the Barbarian (1982). Directed by John Milius, the

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Demon City Shinjuku (1988) – Review

During the gory, glory days of Anime in the 89s and 90s, Yoshiaki Kawajiri managed to secure himself as a talent to watch thanks to

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Wicked City (1987) – Review

To be honest, I’ve never know just what the fascination is with 80s and 90s Japanese and the absolute need to fill so many instances

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Urotsukidōji: Legend Of The Overfiend (1989) – Review

Well, it had to happen sooner or later…You can’t explore the Anime of the 80s and 90s without eventually stumbling upon some of the far

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Fist Of The North Star (1986) – Review

Like a punch that reduces the human skull to so much tapioca, the anime explosion of the 90s literally blew my mind as all these

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1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982) – Review

Sometimes it’s nice to watch a focused, restrained motion picture that’s actually about something that makes you a better and smarter person for having watched

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Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) – Review

There are a wide and varied list of movies that are cherished as “Christmas Movies” that people break out every year once the page of

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Class Of 1984 (1982) – Review

When different kinds of movies tackle the same social issues, the results can often be staggeringly diffrent. Take the subject of teaching troubled kids in

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Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes (1984) – Review

Since his inception, Tarzan has been primarily the personification of a pulp adventure hero with such actors such as Johnny Weissmuller, Gordon Scott and the

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Heathers (1988) – Review

To accurately snag an entire generation into worshiping your teen movie, it helps to remember a few things: you probably shouldn’t attempt to talk down

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