#movieUnmoderated tag#movieHotdrax in # movies • 2 days ago • 3 min readFilm Review: Up the Academy (1980)In many Hollywood films, desperate parents try to deal with their rebellious and misbehaving teenage sons by having them sent to military...drax in # movies • 2 days ago • 6 min readFilm Review: The Shining (1980)Films that age like wine and get better with each subsequent viewing are rare. It is even rarer for films to be panned by critics after the...drax in # movies • 3 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: The Long Riders (1980)Nothing demonstrates the power of modern media like Hollywood’s ability to transform bloodthirsty killers and ruthless criminals into...drax in # movies • 4 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: Humanoids from the Deep (Monster, 1980)If you are uninitiated into the world of B-films and want to know what exploitation cinema in its pure form looks like, there are few films...drax in # movies • 4 days ago • 3 min readFilm Review: Fame (1980)Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film studio recently acquired by Jeff Bezos’ Amazon, used to be the greatest among the major studios of Classic...drax in # movies • 4 days ago • 3 min readFilm Review: Friday the 13th (1980)John Carpenter’s Halloween is often credited with creating the modern slasher film genre, but it took a series of its cheap and often...drax in # movies • 4 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: Bad Timing (1980)So many cult films owe their cult status to merely being rejected, censored, or suppressed at their premiere, thus allowing a small...drax in # movies • 4 days ago • 5 min readFilm Review: Death Watch (La Mort en direct, 1980)Watching old science fiction films can be interesting when their plot settings allow our present-day world to be compared with what the...drax in # movies • 4 days ago • 3 min readFilm Review: North Sea Hijack (ffolkes, 1980)Action films are less likely than other genres to provide commentary on social issues like the change in the position of women in society....drax in # movies • 4 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: Tom Horn (1980)The story of the Old West had a happy ending, at least for the United States, white settlers and Hollywood, which would milk the last drop...drax in # movies • 5 days ago • 4 min readFilm Review: Saturn 3 (1980)Among the many attempts to repeat the success of Star Wars by making a high-budget science fiction epic, few were as strange as Saturn 3, a...drax in # movies • 5 days ago • 3 min readFilm Review: S.H.E.: Security Hazard Expert (1980)Feminists among film critics and scholars like to complain about the lack of action film heroines, at least those strong enough to carry...drax in # movies • 5 days ago • 6 min readFilm Review: American GigoloSome films are great not because they are the product of great talent, but simply for being made at the right time, allowing them to herald...drax in # movies • 5 days ago • 6 min readFilm Review: Cruising (1980)Just as there are films that are praised unjustly and for the wrong reasons, there are films that are vilified unjustly and for the wrong...drax in # movies • 5 days ago • 3 min readFilm Review: The Fog (1980)Great concepts are wasted on mediocre and subpar films more than anyone would like to think. And this could happen even to the great film...drax in # movies • 5 days ago • 5 min readFilm Review: Flash Gordon (1980)Appreciation of some films can come full circle. The author of this review experienced such a phenomenon with Flash Gordon, the 1980...drax in # movies • 6 days ago • 8 min readFilm Review: Kagemusha (1980)Homage to the great men can be paid in many different ways. One of them could be noticed by those who play Shogun: Total War, a computer...drax in # movies • 5 days ago • 7 min readFilm Review: Breaker Morant (1980)If the current US war against Iraq is to be compared with any previous conflict, the most suitable example would be the Boer War. In 1899,...drax in # movies • 6 days ago • 7 min readFilm Review: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)When people discuss the slow yet unstoppable decline of quality film-making within commercial Hollywood cinema, they often point to sequels...drax in # movies • 6 days ago • 5 min readFilm Review: Dogs of War (1980)While it was part of the former Yugoslavia, my country, Croatia, used to be almost completely ignored by Western films in general. The...
