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Subgenre Sampler
FX (F/X) (1986)
- Dir. Robert Mandel
Feat. Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy - Some ingenious set pieces and explosive effects highlight this superior action–suspenser. An FX expert is employed to fake the death of a VIP,…
Top Gun (1986)- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer… - Star–making film for Cruise, who goes through all the right motions to get millions of bums on seats. The routine plot is overcome by the…
Back to the Future (1985)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson… - A bona fide 80s classic, this original sci–fi comedy/adventure has a perfectly cast Michael J. Fox sent back to the '50s to have his mother…
Breakfast Club, The (1985)- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall… - Five teenagers do detention together in this John Hughes classic.
Ran (1985)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai - The title translates to 'chaos'; it is Kurosawa's vast and bloody interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear. Grandiose in every sense – a…
Year of the Dragon (1985)- Dir. Michael Cimino
Feat. Mickey Rourke, John Lone - Mickey Rourke leads a clean–up of corruption in New York's Chinatown. An arresting melodrama with gut–wrenching violence in the league of…
Amadeus (1984)- Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham - Academy–award winning biopic of Mozart's illustrious but brief existence that spawned much of the greatest music ever written. A humourous yet…
Dune (1984)- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Jose Ferrer, Brad Dourif… - Ambitious but muddled adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult novel recouped less than half its $25 million cost. Still of interest to spotters of…
Ghostbusters (1984)- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver… - Blockbuster supernatural comedy follows the lives of three flaky paranormal investigators who find themselves in countless gooey situations. The…
Night of the Comet (1984)- Dir. Thom Eberhardt
Feat. Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, Kelli Maroney - Terrific B–movie where a comet hits earth and two surviving valley girls must fight the resulting cannibal zombie apocalypse. Trashy in all the…
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