1985
Both P.P. Rider and Typhoon Club showcase many aspects of Somai’s signature style, Lee Jutton takes a look at both.
It’s films like Angel’s Egg that make the critic feel like a charlatan, aimlessly looking for patterns in the entrails.
In the No Time To Die Countdown, Jake Tropila takes a look at A View to a Kill, the final James Bond film starring Roger Moore.
A gorgeous, thrilling portrayal of careless childhood dissolving in the summer sun, Smooth Talk is a landmark coming-of-age film.
Better off Dead uses the tropes and political incorrectness of many 1980s teen comedies but its absurdity is able to undermine these regressive areas.
Albert Brooks’s cult classic Lost in America is not just one of the funniest films of the 1980s, but a subtle examination of perspective, too.
No movie gives an aura of eighties nostalgia better than St.Elmo’s Fire. The Joel Schumacher directed film is somewhat of an underappreciated ‘masterpiece’.