Category: 1980s
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Prince Of The City (1981)
I bought Prince Of The City (1981) on iTunes last year and had always been putting it off because it was three hours long. Finally sat with it one night, director Sidney Lumet’s adaptation of the true story concerning Daniel Ciello (a career best performance by Treat Williams), a cocky narcotics squad detective who suffers… Read.
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Just One Of The Guys (1985)
Another movie poster I remember seeing in video stores, Just One Of The Guys (1985) is an eighties teen movie with a high concept twist: Terri (Joyce Hyser) wants to be a journalist and is passed over for a summer internship at a newspaper by her teacher’s sexism, so she decides to go undercover as… Read.
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Black Moon Rising (1986)
Black Moon Rising (1986) had a video cover that was always in my mind’s eye and even though it was scripted by one of my favourite directors, John Carpenter, took me a very long time to actually see what it was all about. Turns out that it’s a great Eighties super-car B-movie that has everything… Read.
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Smooth Talk (1985)
Based on a Joyce Carol Oates short story, Smooth Talk (1985) follows a young Laura Dern as a small town teenage girl, rebelling against her stern mother and hanging out with boys at the hamburger stand. This aimless character piece gets very tense in the second half with the dance of dialogue between Dern and… Read.
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The Hit (1984)
The Hit (1984) is an existential road movie directed by Stephen Frears and set in Spain. Starring John Hurt and a young Tim Roth as a pair of hitmen tasked with taking back a “grasser” played by the benevolent Terence Stamp. This is beautifully shot and continually tense yet imbued with a thoughtful tone. Recommended. Read.
