Archive for Release Year: 1980

6 posts from 03 June 2024 to 21 November 2017.

  • Flash Gordon

    Barbarella filmed with the grandiosity of Star Wars.

  • Friday the 13th

    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!

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

  • The Fog

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

  • American Gigolo

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

  • Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

    More of this sort of childish space opera. Jar Jar Binks is like a C-3PO on steroids, it’s grating on the ears. Even on more serious scenes, that tinny voice is there, hammering away at your ears.