80’s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

Shelley Duvall: 1949-2024

Shelley Duvall: Hollywood’s prototypical Quirky Actress.

Another important showbiz death? I’m afraid so…

An enormously iconic Hong Kong fantasy, although I’ve never been all that impressed by it.

In the category of underappreciated actors, the recently deceased Donald Sutherland looms rather hugely

In an occurrence that should surprise no one, this US-Bollywood RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK wannabe flopped spectacularly

R.I.P.

The undoubted magnum opus of the late Roman Kachanov, and a highlight of child-based sci-fi animation from the Soviet Union

One of the key textual resources on the “video nasties” scare that swept England in the 1980s

Another example of an Eastern made film that was a commercial blockbuster in its native land but to Western eyes seems downright Jorodowsky-esque

This is the 1988 cyberpunk-themed anime feature that, prior to game-changers like GHOST IN THE SHELL and PERFECT BLUE, irrevocably altered the format