American Coming-of-Age Drama (1980s)

The ‘coming of age’ movie is a bit ambiguous. There’s a tendency to link the sub-genre to films about kids, so Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, and Jeff Daniels in Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild, and Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars seemingly came of age too late in life. It appears there’s a [...]

October 29th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Genre - Action-Adventure, Genre - Comedy, Genre - Drama, Time Period - 1980s to Present | One comment

Horror Film in the 1980s

I originally wrote this for sister site Strange Conversation HERE. I present it on Top10Films.co.uk in its entirety including my feature on the horror genre which looks at the films in America leading up to the 1980s. Also, I’ve included by top 5 “moments” from 1980s horror films, as well as a link to watch [...]

October 29th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Genre - Foreign Language, Genre - Horror, Time Period - 1980s to Present | One comment