Tag: 1982

Dragon Lord (1982) – Review

As Jackie Chan moved steered his movie career from the late 70s to the early 80s, you can feel him feeling out and challenging the

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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) – Review

Just between you and me, I always hated E.T. as a child. There were various reasons of course, but when it came to the Spielbergian

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The Beast Within (1982) – Review

Some horror plots are just unavoidably grim. It comes with the territory, really; but every now and then, you settle down in front of a

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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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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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Xtro (1982) – Review

In the slimy, drooly wake of Ridley Scott’s Alien, all manner of creepy, amorphous extraterrestrials stalked out from dark, industrial corners and alien world to

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48 Hrs. (1982) – Review

There are many things that set 48 Hrs. apart from the crowd. One is that it’s the film that shuffled the tropes of the buddy

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The New York Ripper (1982) – Review

Even though I’m probably going to catch hell (or even a knife in the privates) for this, I have to admit I never really cared

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Manhattan Baby (1982) – Review

For those not in the know, Lucio Fulci is one of the greatest paradoxes of Italian horror cinema. His movies were often stunningly shot with

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Death Wish II (1982) – Review

There’s not many genres I have trouble stomaching. Slashers? No problem. Italian cannibal movies? Sure, why not? Torture porn? A cakewalk. However, if there’s something

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The House By The Cemetery (1981) – Review

Lucio Fulci could hardly be described as the most lucid filmmaker of Italian horror, but even by his defiantly illogical standards, The House By The

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Q – The Winged Serpent (1982) – Review

Ok, picture the scene: it’s maybe around the mid-to-early eighties and if you can believe it, I’m an offensively adorable kid who around five or

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Poltergeist (1982) – Review

Most ghost movies usually rely on subtlety to give an audience a taste of what lurks on the other side – take Robert Wise’s work

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Pieces (1982) – Review

Advertised in some corners of the world with the brazenly unsubtle tagline “You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre”, Pieces is

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Tron (1982) – Review

Much like The Black Hole or Dragonslayer, Tron was another tonally strange attempt from Disney to bring their live action movies up to date in

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Tenebrae (1982) – Review

Maestro or misogynist? Those are the two labels that have continously clung to Italian horror master Dario Argento ever since he first started plying his

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Blade Runner (1982) – Review

The history of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is as almost notorious as the movie itself; an agonisingly uncomfortable shoot had virtually everyone at each other’s

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Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982) – Review

Ok, real talk. The maiden cinematic voyage of the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise didn’t really cut the mustard with a first movie that was

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Five Elements Ninjas (1982) – Review

It’s once again time to take another flamboyant trip to ancient Hong Kong to witness bursts of athletic violence interspersed with an over complicated plot

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Rocky III (1982) – Review

At some point in the life of a franchise that started off gritty and achieved the devoted love of an audience, there’s an inevitable change

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