They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for March, 1985
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)
It is probably not a commentary on anything to report that I liked Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment more than its predecessor only because I found the previous film to be a complete washout. With this sequel, I laughed a few times. Not enough to deem this a good movie, but I laughed two […]
LadyHawke (1985)
I have a feeling that the title of this movie comes from the fact that Wolf Man was already taken. Ladyhawke is a medieval romantic adventure that tells a great and tragic story that Shakespeare might have tackled. It’s about a knight named Navarre (Rudgar Hauer) who is in love with a beautiful woman named […]
King David (1985)
Quick! Someone please remake this into a better movie! What happened here? The story of King David is robust, full, exciting, filled with intrigue, sex, adventure. This is the story of a warrior king, a man who turned Israel into a nation. David’s is one of the most meat-on-the-bone stories to come out of the […]
The Slugger’s Wife (1985)
Neil Simon’s The Slugger’s Wife is a real study. It’s a lighthearted little biscuit of a film that includes baseball and romance; then it throws in a sort of magical realism and then treads into plot elements that seems to come from transcripts of Simon’s therapy sessions. It’s a weird cracker box of a movie, […]
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
I didn’t actually think that it was possible, but the people who made Friday the 13th: A New Beginning have made a film that is actually dumber and scummier than the films that preceded it. Seriously, this is a terminally dumb movie and the production values have the charm of moldy bread. The movie, of […]
Porky’s Revenge (1985)
The first thing to note about Porky’s Revenge is the age of the supposed teenagers in the lead. They’re all about to graduate from Angel Beach High but it is clear that the actors are all approaching 30. I noted the crow’s feet, the receding hairlines and the body curvature that isn’t present in the […]
Baby . . . Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
I never tire of watching those TV documentaries focusing on the work of Dr. Jane Goodall, the primatologist who has spent a great deal of time studying the socialization of African chimpanzees. The image that comes to mind is the gray-haired Goodall seated in the tall grass just a few feet away from the primates […]
Heartbreakers (1985)
I really wanted to me more invested in Heartbreakers. This is potentially interesting portrait of two womanizing jerks who compete with one another and slowly begin to realize that true manhood is creeping up on them. The problem is that the movie is not nearly as deep nor as full of human interest as it […]
