Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) – Review

By the end of the 80s, Studio Ghibli was cooking, creatively speaking, but was still finding it tough to get the appropriate amount of traction

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Tales From The Crypt – Season 1, Episode 6: Collection Completed (1989) – Review

Just what the hell does director Mary Lambert have against animals anyway? Not only did the filmmaker helm not one, but two Pet Sematary movies

Tales From The Crypt – Season 1, Episode 5: Lover Come Hack To Me (1989) – Review

While it’s been widely recognised that HBO’s Tales From The Crypt helped bring more tangible, graphic and noticably wetter violence to the small screen than

Tales From The Crypt – Season 1, Episode 4: Only Sin Deep (1989) – Review

After the three-pronged pilot which saw a trio of highly recognised directors delve into the recesses of EC Comics to bring their camp, horror tales

Tales From The Crypt – Season 1, Episode 3: Dig That Cat… He’s Real Gone (1989) – Review

With its first three clutch of tales debuting on the same night, the bumper crop of all-star directors who kicked off HBO’s Tales From The

Tales From The Crypt – Season 1, Episode 2: And All Through The House (1989) – Review

Fresh from trying to drive Bob Hoskins insane in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and before he lept into the mind scrambling time travel of Back

Tales From The Crypt – Season 1, Episode 1: The Man Who Was Death (1989) – Review

Oh sure, HBO managed to change the face of television with the Sopranos, but when it came to altering the type of content you could

Puppet Master (1989) – Review

There’s always been a stigma against grown men playing with dolls, but you can’t deny that Charles Band has made one Hell of a living

The Karate Kid Part III (1989) – Review

Just how much mileage can you get out of a young Karate student and his bond with this aging mentor? Well, if you’re John G.

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

UrotsukidĹŤji: 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

Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989) – Review

Surely there can’t be a more unpredictable, chaotic and formless franchise than the series of movies released under the yule tide banner of Silent Night

Society (1989) – Review

Satire can take many forms, but surely none have taken a form so silly, so ridiculous, so downright…. squishy as Brian Yunza’s Society.Essentially ignored in

Cyborg (1989) – Review

In a career absolutely jam packed with dystopian futures, marauding robots and probably more crucifixions than are strictly necessary, the indomitable Albert Pyun made it

Warlock (1989) – Review

Sometimes, time casts the most bewitching spell of all, casually erasing movies that maybe didn’t get the fairest shake of the whip when they were

The ‘Burbs (1989) – Review

Joe Dante has always been at his very best when he’s putting the subversive boot into the more picturesque aspects of the American dream. When

Phantom Of The Mall: Eric’s Revenge (1989) – Review

As the slasher craze was gradually bleeding out at the end of the decade, the 80s saw a couple of outlandish attempts to mould Gaston

No Holds Barred (1989) – Review

Certain sports are kind of hard to capture correctly on film when compared to other – I mean compare how many boxing and racing movies

American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989) – Review

While I don’t want to sound like something of an action snob, the news that many American Ninja fans utterly despise the third installment came

The Church (1989) – Review

In an alternate timeline, Dario Argento – the Italian master of horror – and Michele Soavi – the man responsible for the magnificently flamboyant 80s

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