Archive for Release Year: 1980

5 posts from 19 December 2023 to 21 November 2017.

• Flash Gordon 1980

  ●●○○ 21 Nov 2017

  Barbarella filmed with the grandiosity of Star Wars.

• Friday the 13th 1980

  ●●◐○ 20 Jun 2019

  An horror classic, spawned an enormous amount of sequels, but this is the origin story. The twist ending was never brought back, for some reason.

• Airplane! 1980

  ●●●● 18 Jul 2019

  Surely a classic, just don’t call me Shirley. Roger, Clarence, Victor, Oveur.

• The Fog 1980

  ●●○○ 07 Sep 2019

  Carpenter’s followup to Halloween. The music is almost the same.

• American Gigolo 1980

  ●●◐○ 19 Dec 2023

  Paul Schrader copied the classic film noir so well, it includes Hays Code limits. Is this for adults, or is it Bugsy Malone?