At-A-Glance Film Reviews: 1980-1989

About Last Night (1986)
Above the Law (1988)
Absence of Malice (1981)
The Abyss (1989)
The Accidental Tourist (1988)
The Adventures of Hercules (1985) (aka: "Hercules II")
The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective (1986) (aka: "The Great Mouse Detective")
After Hours (1985)
Against All Odds (1984)
Agatha Christie's Sparkling Cyanide (1983) (aka: "Sparkling Cyanide")
Agatha Christie's The Man In the Brown Suit (1989) (aka: "The Man In the Brown Suit")
Airplane! (1980)
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
Alien From L.A. (1988)
Aliens (1986)
All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989)
All of Me (1984)
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987)
Always (1989)
Amadeus (1984)
Amazons (1986)
An American Tail (1986)
An American Werewolf In London (1981)
Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
Amityville 3-D (1983) (aka: "Amityville III: The Demon")
Amityville III: The Demon (1983) (aka: "Amityville 3-D")
And God Created Woman (1988)
Annie (1982)
Another Woman (1988)
Any Which Way You Can (1980)
Appointment With Death (1988)
The Archer: Fugitive From the Empire (1981)
Armed and Dangerous (1986)
Armour of God (1986) (aka: "Operation Condor 2: The Armour of the Gods")
Arthur (1981)
Arthur the King (1985) (aka: "Merlin and the Sword")
At Bertram's Hotel (1987)
Ator, L'Invincibile (1983) (aka: "Ator, the Fighting Eagle")
Ator, the Fighting Eagle (1983) (aka: "Ator, L'Invincibile")
Baby Boom (1987)
Back To the Future (1985)
Back To the Future, Part II (1989)
Backfire (1987)
Backtrack (1989) (aka: "Catchfire")
Bad Taste (1987)
Barbarian Master (1983) (aka: "The Sword of the Barbarians")
Barbarian Queen (1985) (aka: "Queen of the Naked Steel")
The Barbarians (1987)
The Barbaric Beast of Boggy Creek, Part II (1985) (aka: "Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues")
Batman (1989)
Beaches (1988)
The Bear (1988) (aka: "L'Ours")
The Beastmaster (1982)
The Bedroom Window (1987)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Being From Another Planet (1982) (aka: "Time Walker")
Benji the Hunted (1987)
Better Off Dead (1985)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Big (1988)
The Big Chill (1983)
The Big Easy (1987)
The Big Score (1983)
Big Trouble In Little China (1986)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989)
Bizet's Carmen (1984) (aka: "Carmen")
Black Arrow (1985)
The Black Cauldron (1985)
Black Moon Rising (1986)
Black Rain (1989)
The Black Stallion Returns (1983)
Black Widow (1987)
The Blade Master (1984) (aka: "Cave Dwellers")
Blade Runner (1982)
Blind Date (1987)
Blood Simple (1984)
Blood Sport (1989)
Blow Out (1981)
The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Blue Thunder (1983)
Blue Velvet (1986)
The Blue Yonder (1985) (aka: "Time Flyer")
The Boat (1981) (aka: "Das Boot")
Body Double (1984)
Body Heat (1981)
The Body In the Library (1984)
Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (1985) (aka: "The Barbaric Beast of Boggy Creek, Part II")
Das Boot (1981) (aka: "The Boat")
Born On the Fourth of July (1989)
Born To Defence (1986) (aka: "Born To Defend")
Born To Defend (1986) (aka: "Born To Defence")
The Bounty (1984)
The Bourne Identity (1988)
The B.R.A.T. Patrol (1986)
Brazil (1985)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Breakin' (1984)
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)
Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace (1981)
Brewster's Millions (1985)
Bride of Boogedy (1987)
Broadcast News (1987)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Bubblegum Crisis (1985)
Bugs Bunny's Third Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982) (aka: "1001 Rabbit Tales")
Bull Durham (1988)
Caddyshack (1980)
The Cannonball Run (1981)
Cannonball Run II (1984)
A Caribbean Mystery (1983)
A Caribbean Mystery (1989)
Carmen (1984) (aka: "Bizet's Carmen")
Castle In the Sky (1986) (aka: "Laputa: Castle In the Sky")
Cat People (1982)
Catchfire (1989) (aka: "Backtrack")
Cave Dwellers (1984) (aka: "The Blade Master")
Cave Girl (1985)
Chances Are (1989)
The Changeling (1980)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
Child's Play (1988)
Children of a Lesser God (1986)
A Chorus Line (1985)
Christine (1983)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Cinema Paradiso (1989)
City Limits (1985)
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Cloak & Dagger (1984)
Clockwise (1986)
Club Paradise (1986)
Clue (1985)
Cocoon (1985)
Code Name: Emerald (1985)
The Color of Money (1986)
The Color Purple (1985)
Coming To America (1988)
Commando (1985)
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Conan the Destroyer (1984)
Confidentially Yours (1983) (aka: "Finally, Sunday")
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (1989)
Conquest (1983)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Criminal Law (1988)
Critters (1986)
Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Cutter's Way (1981)
Dad (1989)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
The Dark Crystal (1982)
Dead Bang (1989)
Dead Calm (1989)
Dead Man's Folly (1986)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
Dead of Winter (1987)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
The Dead Pool (1988)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Death Hunt (1981)
Death of a Salesman (1985)
Death Wish II (1982)
Death Wish 3 (1985)
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
Deathstalker (1984)
Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans (1987)
Deathstalker III: Deathstalker and the Warriors From Hell (1989)
Deathtrap (1982)
The Decalogue: 1 (1989)
The Delta Force (1986)
Devil Fish (1981)
Die Hard (1988)
Diner (1982)
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Diva (1981)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Doing Life (1986)
Down and Out In Beverly Hills (1986)
Dragnet (1987)
Dragon Lord (1982) (aka: "Dragon Strike")
Dragon Strike (1982) (aka: "Dragon Lord")
Dragonslayer (1981)
The Dream Team (1989)
Dressed To Kill (1980)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Dune (1984)
The Dungeonmaster (1985) (aka: "Ragewar")
Educating Rita (1983)
Eight Men Out (1988)
The Emerald Forest (1985)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Escape 2000 (1983) (aka: "Escape From the Bronx")
Escape From New York (1981)
Escape From the Bronx (1983) (aka: "Escape 2000")
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
European Vacation (1985) (aka: "National Lampoon's European Vacation")
The Evil Dead (1982)
Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn (1987)
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Excalibur (1981)
Explorers (1985)
Eye of the Needle (1981)
Family Business (1989)
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
ffolkes (1980) (aka: "North Sea Hijack")
The Final Countdown (1980)
Final Justice (1984)
Finally, Sunday (1983) (aka: "Confidentially Yours")
Fire and Ice (1983)
Firefox (1982)
First Blood (1982) (aka: "Rambo: First Blood")
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Flashdance (1983)
Flesh & Blood (1985) (aka: "The Rose and the Sword")
Fletch (1985)
Fletch Lives (1989)
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
The Fly (1986)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
4:50 From Paddington (1987)
The Fourth Protocol (1987)
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Frantic (1988)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D (1982)
Friday the 13th Part 4 (1984) (aka: "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter")
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) (aka: "Friday the 13th Part 4")
Fugitive Alien (1986)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
F/X (1986) (aka: "Murder By Illusion")
Gandhi (1982)
Get Smart, Again! (1989)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Gimme an 'F' (1984)
Gloria (1980)
Glory (1989)
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
The Goonies (1985)
Gor (1988)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986) (aka: "The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective")
The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
Gremlins (1984)
The Grey Fox (1982)
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Gunan, King of the Barbarians (1983) (aka: "The Invincible Barbarian")
Gwendoline (1984) (aka: "The Perils of Gwendoline In the Land of the Yik Yak")
Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1980)
Halloween II (1981)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Happy New Year (1987)
Hawk the Slayer (1980)
Hearts and Armour (1983) (aka: "I Paladini - Storia d'Armi e d'Amori")
The Heist (1989)
Hello Again (1987)
Her Alibi (1989)
Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
Hercules (1983)
Hercules II (1985) (aka: "The Adventures of Hercules")
High Road To China (1983)
Highlander (1986)
History of the World: Part I (1981)
The Hitcher (1986)
Hobgoblins (1987)
The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
Hollywood Outtakes and Rare Footage (1984)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Hoosiers (1986)
Hopscotch (1980)
House of Games (1987)
The House On Carroll Street (1988)
Humanoid Woman (1981)
Hundra (1983)
The Hunger (1983)
I Ought To Be In Pictures (1982)
I Paladini - Storia d'Armi e d'Amori (1983) (aka: "Hearts and Armour")
I'll Be Home For Christmas (1988)
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
The Ice Pirates (1984)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Innerspace (1987)
An Innocent Man (1989)
Intrigue (1988)
The Invincible Barbarian (1983) (aka: "Gunan, King of the Barbarians")
Iron Warrior (1987)
Ironmaster (1982)
It Nearly Wasn't Christmas (1989)
Izzy and Moe (1985)
Jack the Ripper (1988)
Jagged Edge (1985)
The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987)
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
The Jigsaw Man (1983)
Johnny Dangerously (1984)
The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)
Just One of the Guys (1985)
The Karate Kid, Part II (1986)
The Karate Kid, Part III (1989)
The Karate Kid (1984)
Kids From Shaolin (1983) (aka: "Shaolin Temple 2: Kids From Shaolin")
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Kill Me Again (1989)
The Killer (1989)
The Killing Fields (1984)
King Kong Lives (1986)
King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Krull (1983)
Labyrinth (1986)
Ladyhawke (1985)
The Land Before Time (1988)
Laputa: Castle In the Sky (1986) (aka: "Castle In the Sky")
Lassiter (1984)
The Last Emperor (1987)
The Last Starfighter (1984)
The Last Unicorn (1982)
Lean On Me (1989)
Legal Eagles (1986)
Legend (1985)
The Legend of the White Horse (1986) (aka: "White Dragon")
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Licence To Kill (1989)
Lightning: The White Stallion (1986)
Lionheart (1987)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Little Miss Marker (1980)
Little Nikita (1988)
The Living Daylights (1987)
Local Hero (1983)
Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
The Lonely Guy (1984)
The Long Good Friday (1980)
Look Who's Talking (1989)
The Lost Empire (1985)
Lost In America (1985)
Lucas (1986)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) (aka: "The Road Warrior")
Mad Max 3 (1985) (aka: "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome")
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) (aka: "Mad Max 3")
Major League (1989)
The Man From Snowy River (1982)
The Man In the Brown Suit (1989) (aka: "Agatha Christie's The Man In the Brown Suit")
The Man With One Red Shoe (1985)
The Man With Two Brains (1983)
Manhunter (1986)
Masquerade (1988)
Master Ninja I (1984)
Master Ninja II (1984)
The Master (1989)
Masters of the Universe (1987)
The Meaning of Life (1983) (aka: "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life")
Melvin and Howard (1980)
Merlin and the Sword (1985) (aka: "Arthur the King")
Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)
Midnight Run (1988)
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
Million Dollar Heiress (1984) (aka: "Wheels On Meals")
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
Mischief (1985)
Missing (1982)
Modern Romance (1981)
Mona Lisa (1986)
Monkey Shines: An Experiment In Fear (1988)
Monsieur Hire (1989)
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) (aka: "The Meaning of Life")
Moonstruck (1987)
The Morning After (1986)
The Moving Finger (1985)
Mr. Boogedy (1986)
Mr. Mom (1983)
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
The Murder At the Vicarage (1986)
Murder By Illusion (1986) (aka: "F/X")
Murder In Three Acts (1986)
A Murder Is Announced (1985)
Murder Is Easy (1982)
Murder With Mirrors (1985)
My Bodyguard (1980)
My Favorite Year (1982)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
The Name of the Rose (1986)
National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) (aka: "European Vacation")
The Natural (1984)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (1984) (aka: "Warriors of the Wind")
Nemesis (1987)
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Never Say Never Again (1983)
The NeverEnding Story (1984)
The New Game of Death (1981) (aka: "Tower of Death")
New York Stories (1989)
Night Shift (1982)
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors</