Movies

I remember sending away for the video (it was before internet buying) and paying a ridiculous amount of money for it (about $40). Everyone I knew was into this movie and if you didn't know at least a dozen quotes ...

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Caveman was a very funny film starring Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid and Shelly Long. In it a caveman accidentally becomes the leader of a whole load of misfits. There was actually only one English word spoken in this whole movie! ...

As the name suggests, this is the biopic of Charlie Chaplin. Robert Downey Junior has never been better and captured Chaplin perfectly. Not only did the film tell the story of his life, but some of the most memorable scenes ...

An uplifting and inspiring film not to mention an Oscar winner, so Hollywood agrees with me. Even the film score by Vangelis won an Oscar. It's a classic synthesized score, which seemed to be everywhere in the early 1980s, I ...

The horror movie about the killer doll, released in 1988. Six year old Andy gets a "good guy" for his birthday, unaware that his new friend contains the soul of the recently deceased serial killer Charles Lee Ray, nickname Chuckie. ...

Does anybody remember going to the pictures on a saturday and seeing films made by the CFF.  ...

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A hilarious and heart-warming comedy starring Billy Crystal as one of a group of big-city men going through a mid-life crisis.The three men decide to go on a wild west cattle driving holiday together but are not used to the ...

I named my toy monkey, Clarence, after the loveable lion. I was born in 1963 and this film was out in 1965 so I don't know when I saw it as it must have been in a cinema. I always thought ...

Clockwise was a film starring John Cleese (Monty Python) as Brian Stimpson and Alison Steadman as his wife Gwenda Stimpson. Stimpson was the headmaster of a comprehensive school, who always ran his life by the clock. Everything was perfect for him ...

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A made-for-TV movie from 1986. Lenny Henry (from Three Of A Kind) and John Shea. They played two Motown and soul DJs, who ran a Liverpool-based mobile disco with an old Bedford ice-cream van. After their mate Keks McGuiness trusts ...

Tom Cruise stars as Brian Flanagan, a part-time bartender whose boss teaches him the secrets of the cocktail trade. After a while the two men become the most famous bar-men in town but Brian wants his own bar and decides ...

Heart-warming film about a group of pensioners who start feeling energised and youthful after swimming in a neighbour's pool. The old folks find out that the energy is coming from some alien's eggs which are in the pool and when ...

Eddie Murphy stars as an African Prince who travels to America to avoid the arranged marriage his parents have set up for him.The search is on for a woman who will love him for who he is and not just ...

A retired elite commando has only a few hours to find and rescue his daughter from an exiled dictator. In his quest for his daughter, Arnie encounters many foes and he dispatches them all with: LAW's, guns and the good ...

Released in 1982 and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, this movie attempted to take advantage of the Conan books and comics which were popular at the time.It was apparently very successful however I recall watching it at a birthday party a couple ...

2 years after the success of the first movie, Arnie and friends are at it again with 1984's, "Conan: The Destroyer".This time around Conan is swindled into finding a magic horn for an Evil Queen and must do battle against ...

Condorman was a hilarious movie which saw Michael Crawford in the lead role playing comic book artist Woody Wilkins, who has created a character called Condorman for his readers. Little does he know that when he helps deliver some documents ...

Coneheads is a film based on the popular sketches from the Saturday Night Live episodes of the 70s. The Coneheads are a family who come to earth and try to live as normally as possible which is, of course, tricky ...

Crocodile Dundee (played by Paul Hogan) is kinda like an early version of Steve Irwin. Michael J Crocodile Dundee is a bushman who runs a safari business in Australia and is visited by a New York reporter who then invites ...

Believe it or not, I liked Crocodile Dundee II better than I did the first Crocodile Dundee film, even though the first film is awesome.Crocodile Dundee II continues Mick's (Paul Hogan) and the reporter's relationship in America. The reporter's ...

A young couple move to an isolated farm in the hope that it might save their troubled marriage, but instead they have to face up to some pretty horrific supernatural forces that also live on the farm. The most memorable ...

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