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Real Men (1987) | Dennis Feldman

October 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

James Belushi stars as Nick Pirandello, a crude smart-ass that just so happens to be one of the country’s top CIA agents, who is ordered to recruit a mild-mannered suburban insurance salesman father, Bob Wilson (John Ritter), a lookalike for a recently iced agent, to join him on a secret mission that may have interplanetary […]

Spies Like Us (1985) | John Landis

October 12, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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The plot of Spies Like Us involves the two most inept, low-level U.S. intelligence agents they could find to go on a mission as expendable decoys for the real agents. Emmett Fitz-Hume (Chevy Chase) and Austin Millbarge (Dan Aykroyd) were scouted by the CIA after cheating on their advanced placement exams, with a mission that sees […]

Rambo III (1988) | Peter MacDonald

October 5, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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This time it’s a bit more personal for John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), as his former Vietnam commander and friend, Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna), has been captured by Russian forces as he tries to rally the Afghan rebels who have been winning the resistance. The Afghani people are too suspicious of the American to willingly join […]

Rambo: First Blood Part 2 (1985) | George P. Cosmatos

September 28, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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The story follows First Blood, where John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is in prison for his one-man army heroics against law enforcement in the first film. Here, Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna) approaches Rambo to undergo a covert operation that will presumably save the lives of thousands of POWs still in Southeast Asia, if he can find evidence that […]

First Blood (1982) | Ted Kotcheff

September 22, 2019September 22, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Sylvester Stallon stars as John Rambo, who has spent years trying to track down the only family he ever really knew — the soldiers who fought alongside him in the war. To Rambo’s dismay, he finds he is all alone, as all of the rest were killed in action, or died from cancerous war-related exposure […]

The Delta Force (1986)

September 14, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Cannon Films and Golan-Globus productions push out this ultra-patriotic film in the middle of the 1980s whereby American elite commandos kick major butt when trying to secure the freedom of a plane full of hostages hijacked by a group of Lebanese terrorists. Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin head the super-soldiers to action on the hope […]

Commando (1985) | Mark L. Lester

September 8, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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In this onscreen persona-defining movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Col. John Matrix, a highly-trained military special-ops expert whose unit was disbanded and now live under secret identities in retirement. Matrix spends his days as a single father taking care of his spirited young daughter, Jenny (Alyssa Milano), to whom he has promised not to go […]

Predator (1987) | John McTiernan

August 30, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Major “Dutch” Schaeffer, who, along with his crew of elite special ops commandos, is sent to the jungle of a hostile Latin American country on a covert hostage rescue mission. However, he soon finds out there’s more to the mission than he had originally been told by his old friend, Major […]

Aliens (1986) | James Cameron

August 24, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Aliens starts where the first one leaves off, with Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in hypersleep drifting in the escape shuttle. What Ripley doesn’t know until after she is rescued is that she has been that way for 57 years. When she gets back, the company that owned her ship is very interested in why she decided […]

Alien (1979) | Ridley Scott

August 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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The story begins in the year 2122, onboard the commercial towing vessel, the Nostromo. Its mostly blue-collar crew, five men and two women, are awakened prematurely while still in deep space from their cryogenic slumber en route back to Earth. The reason for their early disturbance has to do with the company’s policy to investigate […]

Lifeforce (1985) | Tobe Hooper

August 10, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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In Cannon Films’ Lifeforce, we find a space shuttle mission co-funded by American and British space agencies traveling to explore Halley’s Comet up close. They soon make a discovery of an alien ship hiding in the comet’s coma, so they go on board to investigate, only to find desiccated bat-like creatures and three naked humanoid beings, […]

Fright Night Part 2 (1989) | Tommy Lee Wallace

August 3, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Fright Night Part 2 is a follow-up to the 1985 cult hit, Fright Night (naturally), where we find the same protagonist, Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale), as a college student no longer believing in the existence of vampires after three years of therapy. Also helping him overcome his supposed fantasies is his new girlfriend and fellow student […]

Fright Night (1985) | Tom Holland

July 28, 2019July 28, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) is a typical suburban teenager with a special interest in old-time horror b-movies, the kind seen on the local creep-fest TV showcase, “Fright Night”, hosted by the self-proclaimed king of vampire hunting films, Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall). It’s all fantasy to Charley until he spies on his new neighbors in the house […]

The Lost Boys (1987) | Joel Schumacher

July 20, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Lucy Emerson (Dianne Wiest) is a divorced mother of two teenage sons, Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Coey Haim), who relocates to the strange oceanside California town of Santa Carla, which is filled with a mix of punk and hippie cultures. The residents of Santa Carla have taken to calling it the “murder capital of the […]

Near Dark (1987) | Kathryn Bigelow

July 14, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Adrian Pasdar stars as Caleb Colton, a young and somewhat passive small-town guy in Oklahoma who has his eye set on a visiting mysterious boyish beauty named Mae (Jenny Wright). Caleb and Mae spend the night talking and flirting, but Mae has to make it home before the sun comes up, for reasons that aren’t […]