Pulse (1988)
Pulse marks Paul Golding’s debut feature directorial effort, as well as his last. His only other directorial credit was when he co-directed a three-minute short film in 1966 called Herbie with George Lucas in...
Category: 1980s
Outrageous Fortune (1987)
Although the subgenre had been around almost as long as talkies were, Outrageous Fortune is notable for being the first “buddy comedy” from Hollywood to boast two female actors as the stars. There are...
Real Men (1987)
Real Men is a buddy action-comedy, which usually means that the plot is shallow to seeing the comic shenanigans the two leads get into and the banter it inspires. It’s a formula proposition, but...
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
Repressed teenager Janey Glenn (Parker) is newly moved to Chicago with her newly retired military dad, mom, and younger brother, having been enrolled in an all-girls Catholic school, but making a fast friend with...
Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989)
Who’s Harry Crumb? is a ridiculous slapstick comedy in the vein of the later Pink Panther films, where most of the laughs come from how sophomoric the makers of the film are willing to go to...
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
The biggest novelty of Curse of the Pink Panther (which was the original title of 1978’s Revenge of the Pink Panther before they changed it) is that it attempts to introduce us to a replacement...
Fletch Lives (1989)
The original sequel to 1985’s hit comedy, Fletch, was originally meant to be based on the sixth of Gregory McDonald’s series of “Fletch” novels, “Fletch and the Man Who”, with a plot that would involve...
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Peter Sellers, who played the bumbling yet highly effective Inspector Clouseau, died on July 24, 1980, and to whom Trail of the Pink Panther, which was released 2.5 years after his death, would be dedicated....
Spies Like Us (1985)
The Dr. Strangelove-esque plot of Spies Like Us involves the two most inept, low-level U.S. intelligence agents they could find to go on a mission as expendable decoys for the real agents. Emmett Fitz-Hume...
First Blood (1982)
First Blood is quintessential Reagan-era violent individualism, and one of the benchmark flicks that set the standard for most Hollywood action films for the next several years. Resonant in the American psyche, this first...