Walter Hill’s Cajun siege picture, for a long time barely registering on the cultural radar, for cinephiles now sits nicely in the highly...

Overwhelmingly beautiful but cold, Tony Scott’s The Hunger, once dismissed back in the day, now resounds as a seminal film of the vampire...

This underseen Elmore Leonard-penned project about a prominent LA industrialist blackmailed for his infidelity cruises through the se...

The story of the rustic Aussie cowboy Michael J. “Crocodile” Dundee character brought to the vacuous Manhattan lifestyle in the height o...

There’s very little to praise in Saturn 3, the much-maligned Razzy-nominated science-fiction film from 1980, which appears like a stain o...

Notable at the time for being an expensive flop, this audacious story of a covert CIA operation to quite literally raise the H.M.S. Titan...

With the exception of JFK’s stunning cinematic bravura, arguably Born on the Fourth of July is Oliver Stone’s most accomplished film. The re...

Though only an effort as producer, the much-maligned, persona-non-grata entry in the Halloween series has all the fingerprints of horrormast...

The Elephant Man endears as one of my favourite films of all time because it exemplifies what makes a great film – taking traditional sto...

The masterful comprehensive examination of the Holocaust never fails to mesmerize on all levels of cinema, history and humanity. Though n...

There’s no doubt Mr. Coppola like many other 70’s mavericks suffered to achieve the success and admiration in the 80’s. That said, there’s m...

John Carpenter’s late blooming fanboy fave most memorable for its lengthystreet fight scene between wrestler Roddy Piper and Keith David ...

Even as much as our brains have been desensitized to the time-lapse cinematography the film pioneered and even after two other entries in...

Expensive – who cares? Egotistical director – who cares? At the end of the day, what miraculously rises from the ashes of time is the sup...

At a glance this rarely discussed slasher film from the 1980s featuring libidinous teenagers getting hacked up by a masked villain, revenge ...

Even as a nine-year-old with limited experience in critical thinking in cinema I remember being disappointed with the sequel to 'Raider...

It would be hard to argue against 'E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial' being Steven Spielberg’s best film, the one film that fulfills all t...

Peter Hyams' fantastic directorial eye and superlative visual design make this obvious 'Alien' clone one of the more underrated,...

Twenty-seven years on from this picture, 'Clue' survives wonderfully as one of the best comedies of the '80s, the black comedic...

The '80s were not kind to American indie cinema. For the most part, gone were the 1970’s mavericks, and with them the distributors and s...