Tag: 1985

He-Man And She-Ra: The Secret Of The Sword (1985) – Review

Oh man, remember when feature length toy adverts that you actually had to pay to see were all the rage? Obviously I’m teasing a little

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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin (1985) – Review

It’s the mid-eighties and with the sound of an exploding Death Star and celebrating Ewoks, the Star Wars Trilogy has come to an end with

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Silverado (1985) – Review

Time does funny things to some movies, doesn’t it. Take Silverado, Lawrence Kasdan’s spirited ode to the Western for example – to watch it now

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Chiller (1985) – Review

Sometimes, life can be tough for a Wes Craven completist. You see, while we love the dear, departed director, for every genre defining film in

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The Stuff (1985) – Review

Arguably the face of 80s horror satire, Larry Cohen made his name delivering a string of absurd B-movie premises such as killer babies and flying,

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The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985) – Review

You just don’t get that many war time sequels, do you?I mean, there’s certainly enough characters who have served in the military who tend to

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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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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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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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Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) – Review

Before Batman, before Edward Scissorhands, before even Beetlejuice, there was Pee Wee Herman.Way back before Tim Burton regularly shilled for Disney, he was a director

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Ladyhawke (1985) – Review

There’s something about fantasy films that were made in the 1980s that just hits a little different. While the decades prior tended to fall back

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Pale Rider (1985) – Review

There probably isn’t another filmmaker alive who understands the importance of American myth more than Clint Eastwood. Having portrayed more enigmatic, mysterious, quickdrawing leading men

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Death Wish 3 (1985) – Review

There always seems to be that telling moment in any long running franchise where it morphs into something so far removed from its original concept,

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Explorers (1985) – Review

Before Gremlins, Joe Dante was the go-to guy for innovative, indie horror that broke new ground while simultaneously honouring the classics; but the moment that

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American Ninja (1985) – Review

Hey, remember back in the 80s when all you had to do to make your film cooler was to stick some freaking ninjas in it?

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Missing In Action 2: The Beginning (1985) – Review

While I’ve already covered the rather convoluted release process from Missing In Action and its sequel while reviewing the first movie, the behind the scenes

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Legend (1985) – Review

Surely one of the greatest conundrums of the twentieth century is this: if movies set in the fantasy genre usually live or die on the

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The Goonies (1985) – Review

During that impossibly fertile period in the 80’s where Amblin Entertainment would make whatever idea Steven Spielberg, virtually breathed on, a small cadre of directors

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Red Sonja (1985) – Review

To put it bluntly, the road to Hollywood accepting that women can carry action movies has been as smooth as the back of a Stegasaurus

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The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985) – Review

The late, great Wes Craven was responsible for some of the greatest horror movies over the span of over thirty years with his fertile imagination

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