David Cronenberg directs this mesmerizing psychological drama about identical twin brothers and gynecologists whose conjoined lives lead them to madness.
Tag: 1988
John Cleese falls for ‘A Fish Called Wanda’ on Hulu and Paramount+
Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin costar in this zippy mix of caper comedy, sexy romantic comedy, and Pythonesque zaniness, one of the funniest films of the 1980s.
Steve Martin and Michael Caine are ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ on HBO Max
Steve Martin is the sloppy, brash American con man who tramples through the carefully guarded French Riviera territory of elegant charlatan Michael Caine in this hilarious comedy from director Frank Oz.
Michelle Pfeiffer is ‘Married to the Mob’ on HBO Max
Married to the Mob (1988) – Two years after his breakthrough film Something Wild, Jonathan Demme returned to the genre with another mix of offbeat humor and dangerous criminals. This colorful gangster comedy stars Michelle Pfeiffer as the frustrated wife of mid-level mobster (a very young Alec Baldwin) and Matthew Modine as a dedicated and […]
‘Midnight Run’ with Robert De Niro on Netflix
The midnight run of Martin Brest’s action comedy Midnight Run (1988) refers to what is supposed to be an easy job for skip tracer and bounty hunter Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro). He’s hired to capture Jack “Duke” Mardukas (Charles Grodin), a mild-mannered accountant who stole $15 million from the mob and then skipped out […]
TV’s original ‘Beauty and the Beast: The Complete Series’ on Paramount+
TV crime show and romantic fantasy meet as urban mythology in the original modern TV fairy tale starring Linda Hamilton as a beautiful crusading lawyer and Ron Perlman as a tender-hearted man-beast.
John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’ on Peacock
A year after Oliver Stone elevated the phrase “Greed is good” to a satirical double-edged mantra in Wall Street, John Carpenter put it more bluntly in They Live (1988), a scruffy little genre movie with a subversive subtext. “Why do we worship greed?” asks an pirate broadcaster in the opening scenes, as images of homeless […]
‘My Neighbor Totoro’ on HBO Max
Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan’s living treasures, a beloved filmmaker whose animated films number among the most beautiful and most enchanting productions ever drawn by hand. In this day of CGI productions, the aging artist still personally draws his key frames and defining characters, with a love and craft that comes through every frame. […]
Tom Hanks is ‘Big’ on Disney+
Big (1988) arrived in theaters amidst a spate of films about adults and children swapping bodies. There’s no swap involved in this story—an adolescent boy named Josh makes a wish that he was big on a midway fortune-telling machine and wakes up in the body of Tom Hanks—but this warm-hearted comedy was by far the […]
Jackie Chan’s ‘Police Story’ and ‘Police Story 2’ on Criterion Channel
In the Hong Kong action movie explosion of the eighties, when the craziest, most kinetically energetic and narratively surreal action movies were pouring out of the Hong Kong film studios at a breakneck pace, Jackie Chan’s Police Story (Hong Kong, 1985) was one of the films that both defined and redefined the industry while firmly […]