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Tag: 1980

Film Review Physical Media

Essential Polish Animation (1957-1987)

27 films spanning the breakthrough of Poland's animated works from the late-1950s to the close of the classic era in the 1980s..

by Remy Dean 20th July 202520th July 2025
Film Review Physical Media

THE BEAST TO DIE (1980)

A journalist who covered the Vietnam War becomes mentally unstable and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.

by Remy Dean 17th July 202517th July 2025
Film Review Retrospective

AIRPLANE! (1980)

After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.

by Cian McGrath 27th June 202527th June 2025
Film Review Retrospective

THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980)

Jake Blues and his brother Elwood are reunited to save their old R&B band and the Catholic home where they were raised...

by Cian McGrath 15th June 202515th June 2025
Film Review Retrospective

THE SHINING (1980)

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence.

by Cian McGrath 21st May 202521st May 2025
Film Review Retrospective

STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)

After the Empire overpowers the Rebel Alliance, Luke Skywalker begins training with Jedi Master Yoda...

by Cian McGrath 15th May 202515th May 2025
Film Review Retrospective

FAME (1980)

Four teenagers must prove their mettle as they begin their journey at the New York High School of Performing Arts.

by Cian McGrath 13th May 202513th May 2025
Film Review Retrospective

AMERICAN GIGOLO (1980)

A Los Angeles escort is accused of a murder which he didn't commit.

by Cian McGrath 28th January 202528th January 2025
Film Review Physical Media

‘Shawscope Volume Three’ (1967-1983)

Before Hong Kong’s mightiest film studio mastered the art of the kung fu film, Shaw Brothers hit box office gold with a very different kind of martial arts cinema.

by Remy Dean 22nd November 202422nd November 2024
Film Review Physical Media

THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY (1980)

An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.

by Dan Owen 3rd June 20242nd June 2024
Film Review Physical Media

AFTER HOURS (1985)

An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho he met that evening at a coffee shop.

by Jono Simpson 7th October 20237th October 2023
kagemusha (1980)
Film Review Physical Media

KAGEMUSHA (1980)

A petty thief who resembles a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double, but when the warlord dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

by Remy Dean 6th March 202128th April 2021
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