80’s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

Paul Morrissey: 1938-2024

Looking back over the career of a true renaissance filmmaker

The first horror film made by Disney, and a bust

This 1985 release can lay claim to being among the absolute dumbest Stephen King movies

Looking over an eccentric yet highly distinguished acting career

The “institutional comedy” model, established in 1984 by POLICE ACADEMY, was given a fair-to-middling workout in this science fiction-tinged comedy

I know many of you love this film. I don’t!

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