U.S. Release Date: 1980-05-21
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Science Fiction/Adventure
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz (voice), Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones (voice)
"The Empire Strikes Back" is a true classic. It has scope and grandeur. It has heroics and tragedy. It can make us laugh and cry. It can make us get up and cheer. It can shock us to the very core of our beings.
U.S. Release Date: 1980-05-21
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Mark Hamill, David Prowse, Peter Mayhew, Billy Dee Williams, Kenny Baker, Frank Oz, Anthony Daniels, Alec Guinness, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, voice of James Earl Jones
Indulge me for a moment as I time travel back to ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Cathy Moriarty, Nicholas Colasanto
Some critics, including Siskel & Ebert, are on the...
U.S. Release Date: 1981-06-19
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Gene Hackman, E.G. Marshall, Clifton James, Susannah York, Valerie Perrine, Jackie Cooper, Ned Beatty, Jack O'Halloran, Sarah Douglas, Margot Kidder, Terence Stamp, Christopher Reeve, Marc McClure
According to the original plan, Superman II was ...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-05-11
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Spousal Abuse)
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm, Phyllis Boyens, Williams Sanderson, Beverly D’Angelo, Robert Elkins
The characters are well-delineated and the story is sufficiently engaging for the motion picture to stand on its own merits irrespective of a viewer’s affinity for country music.
U.S. Release Date: 1980-09-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Robert Redford
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch, Elizabeth McGovern, Dinah Manoff
The passage of time often impacts how films are ...
U.S. Release Date: 1980-05-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
The Shining is a curious motion picture. On the ...
U.S. Release Date: 1980-07-02
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Jim Abrams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker
Cast: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lorna Patterson, Kareem Abdul-Jabaar
Airplane! has not aged well. The fine wine hasn't ...
U.S. Release Date: 1980-08-08
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Robert Greenwald
Cast: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck
How, one might ask, does one begin to defend ...
U.S. Release Date: 1980-05-30
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: Animated
Director: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman
Cast: Arrin Skelley, Daniel Anderson, Patricia Patts, Casey Carlson, Bill Melendez
At its best, it captures the flavor of the beloved comic strip gang but things start to drag after a jaunty first half-hour or so.