The 1980s split cinema between blockbuster excess and quiet, searching art house work: the same decade that gave us The Empire Strikes Back also produced Paris, Texas and Cinema Paradiso. Hollywood chased franchises and spectacle while European and world cinema asked slower, harder questions. Macca's reviews cover the full range, so have a browse.
1980s
There's a moment somewhere in the middle of Homework where you realise Kiarostami isn't going to give you anything else. No music swells. No narrator arrives to contextualise what you're watching. No edit sharpens the rhythm. He's just going to keep sitting
Rating: 2.0★
Let me be honest with you: I went into Re-Animator expecting to have a great time. Stuart Gordon's 1985 splatter-comedy has one of those reputations that precedes it like a foghorn, all glowing reagents and severed heads and knowing winks at the camera. The kind of
Genre Horror
★★½ — Nightmare City (1980)
Genre Action
★★★½ — A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Genre Music
Style Wars (1983)
Genre Documentary
★★½ — Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
Genre Thriller
★★½ — Angst (1983)
Genre Comedy
★★★ — The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Genre Animation
★★ — History of the World in Three Minutes Flat (1980)
Genre Animation
★★½ — The Little Mermaid (1989)
Genre Animation
★★½ — Angel's Egg (1985)
Genre Action
★½ — Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
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