Showing posts with label Year: 1984. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year: 1984. Show all posts

Comfort & Joy (1984)

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Gentle comedy directed by Bill Forsyth with that director's usual offbeat wit and strong sense of place.  A local radio DJ (Bill Paters...

Gremlins (1984)

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Comedy-horror.  A boy is given a small, furry creature for Christmas. But his new pet spawns further little cuties that become a lot less ap...

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

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Highly likeable crime comedy.  Eddie Murphy stars as the endlessly cool, magnetic Axel Foley, a Detroit cop investigating his friend’s shoo...

Paris, Texas (1984)

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Emotional drama directed by Wim Wenders.  A drifter named Travis ( Harry Dean Stanton ) walks out of the desert and appears unable to speak....

Ghostbusters (1984)

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This supernatural comedy is close to perfect. There’s so much that’s great about it. The three main characters – Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz...

The Terminator (1984)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a cyborg sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor ( Linda Hamilton ), who will give birth to a...

Dune (1984)

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Famous for being a head-scrambler, David Lynch’s version of the Frank Herbert sci-fi epic is obtuse but fascinating. On my first viewing, ...

1984 (1984)

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Grim, grey, grisly retelling of the George Orwell novel. John Hurt is Winston Smith. Suzanna Hamilton plays his illicit lover Julia. And Ri...

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

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Rob Reiner ’s masterpiece is one of the funniest films ever made. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer are hilarious as the...

The Lonely Guy (1984)

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Very sweet, very funny Steve Martin comedy that’s fairly similar in tone to The Jerk . He plays Larry Hubbard, a New Yorker ditched by his...

Footloose (1984)

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Ren McCormack ( Kevin Bacon ) is a Chicago teenager who comes to the town of Bomont, Utah, where rock music and dancing have been banned a...

Supergirl (1984)

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A ludicrous mess. Kara Zor-El, the cousin of Superman, comes to Earth in pursuit of the Omegahedron – an orb with remarkable powers. This m...

Romancing the Stone (1984)

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Another film watched on TV while on holiday. This is an action-adventure romp starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner .  The plot is ...

Splash (1984)

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Hugely entertaining film about a mermaid and a young New Yorker who fall in love. There’s lots of comedy value in the “life viewed through...