They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for October, 1985
Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
Twice in a Lifetime is a movie that walks a very tricky minefield of potential cliches and overwrought melodrama. Here is the story of a man who is approaching 50s, has a loving wife and family, but feels that he needs a restart and decided to live his wife for a local barmaid. This has […]
Commando (1985)
If anyone wanted to sell Arnold Schwarzenegger as a product, they could not have done better than with Commando, a movie that both exploits and glorifies everything that makes Arnold appealing. The people in charge of Arnold’s movie career (which is mostly led by Arnold himself) know how to package and sell him. He has […]
The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
One of the few talents that I pride myself on is my ability to keep up with a complicated plot either in books, on television or in the movies. The Holcroft Covenant was a challenge even to my perceptive brain. It has a plot so needlessly overcomplicated that the characters in the movie had to […]
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins . . . (1985)
I want to like Remo Williams The Adventure Begins more than I do. When it was over, I was smiling, I knew I’d seen some great scenes and I had laughed a few times. But all that was overridden by the fact that the movie is way too long, it has too many characters, too […]
Silver Bullet (1985)
The legacy of the werewolf is silly all by itself. Let’s face it, the notion of person who turns into a fur-bearing monster by the light of the full moon is logistically hilarious. It begs the question of what happens to a werewolf as the clouds pass by the moon. Does he keep changing and […]
