Red Dawn (1984)
Jan 11, 2003Communist Invasion of the USA
Ridiculous red-blooded, flag-waving film in which the Soviets invade the USA and a group of high-school teenagers maintain a lone guerilla campaign
Lea Thompson
Back to the Future (1985)
May 9, 1999Time Travel
This was a huge hit at the time and has become one of the most indisputable pop culture artifacts of its era. The film takes a clever time travel plot and infuses it with an effortless energy to prove a considerable winner
Howard the Duck (1986)
Jun 19, 2000Talking Alien Duck/Comic Book Adaptation
This adaptation of the cult Marvel comic-book from Lucasfilm should have been a classic but went tail-feathers up in a big way such that it became the term used for a film that bombs for years afterwards
Spacecamp (1986)
Nov 10, 2003Teenagers Trapped in Orbit in the Space Shuttle
This comes with the unappealing concept of 'Teenagers Trapped in Orbit in the Space Shuttle' and vies between cliche and passable treatment
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Jul 6, 1999Time Travel
The first of the Back to the Future sequels has a whiplash ingenuity that propels us through several different scenarios, including a trip to the future, a dark alternate present and requiring Michael J. Fox to duck unseen in and around the margins of the first film
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Aug 6, 1999Time Travel
Third of the Back to the Future films, which takes everything back in time to the Old West. Probably the slightest of the trilogy, this nevertheless goes out with a rousing farewell
Adventures of a Teenage Dragonslayer (2010)
Jun 9, 2013Children's Fantasy Adventure
A children's fantasy adventure that never strays beyond the environs of an American high school and comes with the lowbrow slapstick, excruciating comic caricatures and incredibly bad effects
Left Behind (2014)
Oct 22, 2014Christian Rapture Film
Nicolas Cage stars in a new film based on the best-selling books about the Biblical end of the world. Despite a much bigger budget than the Kirk Cameron version, nothing terribly interesting happens
Back in Time (2015)
Dec 13, 2015Documentary About the Back to the Future Trilogy
Fan-produced documentary about the making of the Back to the Future trilogy. The filmmakers get face time with almost everybody involved. Far less interesting are the scenes dealing with DeLorean restoration