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Road Games (1981) | Richard Franklin

Posted June 30, 2019 • 00:17:07

Road Games (aka Roadgames) is a Hitchcockian suspense-thriller set primarily out on the open roads running through the Australian outback. Jamie...

Cyborg (1989) | Albert Pyun

Posted April 11, 2019 • 00:14:06

In the future, New York, after the dreaded nuclear holocaust, is a wasteland of lawlessness and gangland thuggery. Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a skilled...

RoboCop (1987) | Paul Verhoeven

Posted April 5, 2019 • 00:20:54

RoboCop is set in near-future Detroit, where the city streets are just about completely dominated by the criminal element, while the police are neither...

Overboard (1987) | Garry Marshall

Posted March 28, 2019 • 00:10:55

Goldie Hawn plays the ultra-disdainful Joanna Slayton, who hires a carpenter, Dean Proffitt (Kurt Russell), while stopping off for repairs in their...

American Dreamer (1984) | Rick Rosenthal

Posted March 22, 2019 • 00:09:50

JoBeth Williams stars as suburban Ohio housewife and mother Cathy Palmer, who escapes her joyless marriage in her spare time by reading her favorite...