Movies

My lasting memory of this film is not seeing it becuase I was ill and missed my friend's birthday invitation to the cinema. Apparently it's something to do with Michael J Fox turning in to a werewolf... not that I'd ...

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Tom Hanks stars in this brilliant comedy as a resident in a sleepy suburb who is concerned about the seemingly sinister neighbours in the scary house at the end of the road.The residents start to come up with their own ...

I loved this film. The crew of an underwater oil rig are asked to help rescue an American submarine which has crashed. When they start the recovery mission they discover something living deep in the ocean. You would ...

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The Amazing Mr Blundon is a classic British family film directed by Lionel Jefferies in 1972. The film is set in 1918 and is about two children Lucy and Jamie. The family are visited by a kindly old man by ...

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Barely remembered now, this big-budget space opera was an enormous hit when it was released in 1979, spawning a plethora of consumer memorabilia along with both an adult and a children's novel, and level-pegging with 'Alien' for cinema audience ratings. ...

The first film I ever saw TWICE at the cinema and introduced me to the world of rhythm and blues music. The story: Jake (John Belushi) and Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) Blues must raise $10,000 dollars to save their old orphanage. ...

The Bodyguard was a big hit from 1992 starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. Whitney played a famous singer (must have been easy for her) and Kevin Costner played her bodyguard. Eventually the relationship between the two means that Costner ...

1980 police comedy starring Northern comedians Cannon & Ball, which was a barely-disguised rip-off of a late '40s Stanley Holloway film that was much funnier.Tommy & Bobby played two rural cops trying to smash a smuggling ring that was using ...

If I were to tell you that the main characters of this popular 1980’s film were a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal, there’s a fair chance that most of you will immediately know which ...

The Cannonball Run was a classic movie from the 80's with loads of car chases and tons of Hollywood A List actors of the 80's. This film really has it all and in classic Hal Needham and Burt Reynolds style ...

A remarkable 1977 horror thriller, directed by Elliot Silverstein and starring James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd and John Marley.Set in and around the fictional Utah desert township of Santa Ynez, the film focuses upon how a community comes to be terrorised ...

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The Dark Crystal was a masterful live-action fantasy from Jim Henson Entertainment - also behind 'Labyrinth'. In The Dark Crystal Jen was the last of his race what was the Gelfling. He had to fulfill the prophecy that a Gelfling ...

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The best of the trilogy? That's what most reviewers argue, but I still prefer Return of the Jedi.I guess I've never really got over my disappointment that The Empire Strikes Back ends on such a downbeat shot with the group ...

Warmly referred to as "The Flight of the Alligator" within our family, this classic 80s film saw a little kid take control of a space-ship and travel through time. His family think he's gone missing, but when he walks back ...

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The Fourth Protocol is a 1987 British Cold War spy film starring Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan. Directed by John Mackenzie, it is based on the 1984 novel The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Protocol_(film)) ...

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You can recognise a child of the 1980s in one very easy move. Go to a crowded place and loudly shout ‘truffle shuffle!’ Anybody who watched The Goonies when they were a kid will immediately go to pull up their ...

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Wow! I saw this in the cinema and it was brilliant!The Muppet Show tonight hadn’t been on TV for a year or so and I missed it SO much! I was young when Muppets Tonight was one, but it was ...

Boisterous, lewd 'mockumentary' about the rise and fall of The Sex Pistols, presented by Malcolm McLaren as 'The Embezzler', and with bass guitarist Steve Jones as the trilby-and-raincoat clad 'Investigator', who in a series of pastiche scenes discovers how the ...

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A bit like Toy Story but without the animation, or Labyrinth but less surreal. The Indian In the Cupboard, released in 1995 is about a boy who receives a cupboard as a gift on his ninth birthday (imagine his delight, ...

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“Look for the bare necessities”Just like "Mary Poppins" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", certain films are a marker for my earliest childhood growing up in the 1970’s and 1980’s and “The Jungle Book” is definitely one of them.The film was ...

The Karate Kid would be one of the quintessential movies of any kid growing up in the 80's. Who could forget Pat Morita's Mr. Miyagi and his wise words: "Wax on, wax off"?Ralph Mocchio played the titular character and was ...

Following the popularity of The Karate Kid film, Daniel LaRusso returns with Mr Miyagi for more karate action. This time Mr Miyagi's father is on his death bed so he has to return back to Okinawa to face his demons.We ...

The Kids Are Alright is a rockumentary film from 1979 about the English rock band the Who. The rockumentary features live performances, promotional films and interviews spanning from 1964 to 1978. Notably it features the last performance of the band ...

The Last Starfighter is a movie from 1984 about a guy living in a trailer park, whose greatest achievement is a high score on a arcade videogame. Then the aliens that created that game come to get him to be ...

Jon Bon Jovi as lovely as ever(!) agrees to help out a man who wants to leave his wife for another woman. How? Well its Jon Bon Jovi's job to seduce the wife (I wish!!) so she will be happy ...

The Lion King is a fantastic Disney animated adventure about Simba, a lion cub, who runs away from home following his father's death. Simba becomes friends with Timon and Pumba and learns the way of Hakuna Matata (no worries) before ...