Warlords
Warlords (1988) is vintage Fred Olen Ray. It’s a film made with a small budget and trades in the spectacles of violence and sex. Like so many of Ray’s films,… Read more »
Tag: 1980s
Deadly Blessing
The original one-sheet for Deadly Blessing (1981) is probably more widely seen than the movie itself. This highly sexualized image of Sharon Stone adorned not only posters but also the… Read more »
The Babysitter
After airing on The ABC Friday Night Movie, The Babysitter (1980) achieved cult status via its VHS release in the early eighties. The film casts a pre-Remington Steele Stephanie Zimbalist… Read more »
Chiquidracula
Chiquidracula (1985) is an off-kilter little coming-of-age story directed by Julio Aldama. The film follows ten year old Carlitos (Carlos Espejel) as he struggles to earn a little bit of… Read more »
Promised A Miracle
Promised A Miracle (1988) is a made for television adaptation of Larry Parker’s cautionary memoir We Let Our Son Die. The film was directed by veteran television provocateur Stephen Gyllenhaal… Read more »
She’s Nobody’s Baby: American Women In The 20th Century
Today She’s Nobody’s Baby: American Women In The 20th Century (1981) is an all but forgotten two-part television special. Hosted by Marlo Thomas and Alan Alda, the film charts eighty… Read more »
Männer…
Männer… (1985) opens with advertising executive Julius Armbrust (Heiner Lauterbach) discovering that his wife Paula (Ulrike Kriener) has been having an affair with a graphic artist named Stefan (Uwe Ochsenknecht)… Read more »
You Are Not I
Sara Driver’s career in film has been as prolific as it is unheralded in public and commercial discourse. Driver, who has written and directed a number of her own films,… Read more »
Lady Beware
When Katya Yarno (Diane Lane) lands a job as a window dresser at a department store in downtown Pittsburgh she gets the attention of Jack Price (Michael Woods), an x-ray… Read more »
Warlock
With actor Julian Sands still missing it seemed apt to revisit some of his most iconic film roles. People of my generation likely first discovered Sands via his Warlock films…. Read more »
