The Blue and the Gray (1982)
The Blue and the Gray is a CBS miniseries from 1982 that tried to do for the Civil War what Roots had done for slavery a few years earlier. Stacy Keach plays Jonas Steele, a Pinkerton operative.
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1980sHighlander (1986)
Highlander is one of the strangest mainstream studio films of the 1980s and one of the most influential fantasy films of the decade. Clancy Brown plays the Kurgan, the giant Mongol-Russian immortal who killed Ramirez and has spent four hundred…
1980sA Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
Seen the original three times. Seen Freddy vs. Jason twice.
1980sWarGames (1983) Review
WarGames is one of the best technological thrillers of the 1980s and one of the most influential American films about computer culture ever produced. John Badham had previously directed Saturday Night Fever and Blue Thunder.
1980sWho Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Review
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of the great American films of the 1980s and one of the most substantial technical achievements in animated cinema history. Robert Zemeckis had directed Romancing the Stone in 1984 and Back to the Future…
1980sPlanes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) Review
John Hughes had directed Sixteen Candles in 1984, The Breakfast Club in 1985, Weird Science in 1985, Pretty in Pink in 1986, Ferris Bueller's Day Off in 1986, and Some Kind of Wonderful in 1987 before Planes, Trains and Automobiles.…
1980sThe Princess Bride (1987) Review
The Princess Bride is one of the most quoted films in American popular culture and one of the most enduring family films of the past forty years. The Princess Bride extended his range into family adventure territory that his previous…
1980sMidnight Run (1988) Review
Midnight Run is one of the great American films of the 1980s and one of the most substantially underrated buddy action comedies in commercial cinema histo. Martin Brest had directed Going in Style in 1979 and Beverly Hills Cop in…
1980sThe Little Mermaid (1989) Review
The Little Mermaid is the film that started the Disney Renaissance. Ron Clements and John Musker directed.
1980sHotel (1983-1988) Review
Hotel is one of the substantial Aaron Spelling 1980s television productions and one of the more enduring American prime-time soap operas of the decade. Aaron Spelling had been one of the most successful American television producers across multiple decades before…
1980sAirplane! (1980) Review
is one of the great American comedies of all time and one of the most substantial parody films in commercial cinema history. The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker collaborative team had been working substantially in comedy production before Airplane!.
1980sWhen Harry Met Sally (1989) Review
Rob Reiner romcom with Nora Ephron screenplay. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan across twelve years.