We’re back.
This week the topic for debate is the sightly contrived ‘Top Characters & Supporting Characters From 80s Movies.’
We talk about Mr Strickland for Back to the Future, Howard The Duck, Weird Science – both the movie and little know TV series – Die Hard, Teen Wolf and Beverly Hills Cop 2.
We also take a weird detour into a post-apocalytic future, lorded over by cricket playing Australians.
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Having experienced the vagaries of US immigration law first hand, Wayne Kramer’s twisting, multi-thread account of illegal immigrants and jaded official-dom was an enticing prospect. There are so many things that it gets right that, on paper at least, it promised to be an Oscar-baiting drama full of intrigue and human suffering.
Kids make for the harshest critics in the business. You can pour your blood, sweat and tears into hyping a movie release, but if it won’t hold the attention of a seven year old for 120 measly minutes, it’s no good to anybody. When it comes to children’s movies, the kid’s deliver the final verdict and they often do so with honesty and conviction. However, every once in a blue moon the kids screw up and a perfectly good movie slips under the radar and is lost – forgotten forever – vanishing into the ether. Here’s the first of four films on a list comprising movies the children of yesteryear should have had the good sense to appreciate for the classics they are. By the time we’re done, you’ll remember why we don’t let them vote.
You might remember some of these titles and hopefully the list will cause you to experience at least one decent nostalgia rush – so let’s crack on…
The ever-contentious Vincent Cassel returns to screens in Jean-Francois Richet’s thriller following the rise of gangster, bank-robber and master-of-disguise Jacques Mesrine in 1960s Paris. What follows is brilliantly entertaining – a powerful and episodic delve into a murky but enthralling underworld and the life of a darkly compelling figure.
