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Sheena (1984)

Featuredby Eric Binford 23 Comments

Synopsis: Sheena (Tanya Roberts, TV’s Charlie’s Angels), a white orphan raised by a kind and wise Shaman (Princess Elizabeth of Tooro) in the jungle of Africa, grows up to become […]

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1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

April 5, 2020by Eric Binford 11 Comments

Synopsis: Raised in the jungles of Africa by apes, John Clayton (Christopher Lambert, Highlander) returns to his aristocratic family in England only to discover that the so-called civilized world is […]

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1984

Teachers (1984)

January 28, 2020by Eric Binford 8 Comments

Synopsis: High school teacher Alex Jurel (Nick Nolte, 48 hrs) is known for his dedication and unorthodox but effective teaching methods. Jurel’s optimism is put to the test when he […]

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1984

Against All Odds (1984)

January 23, 2019by Eric Binford 19 Comments

Synopsis: An unemployed football player (Jeff Bridges, Winter Kills) is hired to find the girlfriend (Rachel Ward, Fortress) of a shady nightclub owner (James Woods, Best Seller). Things get complicated […]

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1984

The Naked Face (1984)

September 4, 2018by Eric Binford 7 Comments

Synopsis: Roger Moore (For Your Eyes Only) plays a Chicago psychiatrist, Dr. Judd Stevens, who suddenly becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Reaction & Thoughts: Based upon Sidney Sheldon’s […]

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1984

Dreamscape (1984)

May 11, 2018by Eric Binford 11 Comments

Synopsis: A psychic, Alex Gardner (Dennis Quaid, Breaking Away), reluctantly joins a secret government project about dream manipulation. But Alex soon finds out that the project is part of a devilish […]

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1984

Cloak & Dagger (1984)

January 9, 2018by Eric Binford 2 Comments

Synopsis: 11-year-old Davey (Henry Thomas, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial) is prone to telling stories that involve an imaginary superhero named Jack Flack (Dabney Coleman, On Golden Pond). Davey’s dad (also played […]

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1984

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

September 10, 2017by Eric Binford 17 Comments

Synopsis: Dr. Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller, RoboCop) is a full-time brain surgeon and part-time inventor who spends his spare time playing the guitar in a rock band (“The Hong Kong […]

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1984

The Brother from Another Planet (1984)

January 20, 2017by Eric Binford 7 Comments

Synopsis: A mute black man from outer space (Joe Morton, Terminator 2: Judgement Day) crash lands his spaceship into the Hudson River, New York, and somehow ends up in Harlem. […]

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1984

Stephen King’s Children of the Corn (1984)

November 19, 2016by Eric Binford 3 Comments

Synopsis: A young couple (Linda Hamilton, The Terminator, and Peter Horton, TV’s Thirtysomething) gets stranded in a small rural town in Nebraska, where its population consists only of children and […]

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1984

The Evil That Men Do (1984)

March 28, 2016by Eric Binford Leave a comment

Synopsis: Charles Bronson (Death Wish) plays an ex-hitman who comes out of retirement in order to avenge the murder of an old friend. His mission takes him to South America, […]

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1984

A Passage to India (1984)

June 1, 2015by Eric Binford Leave a comment

Synopsis: In the 1920s, a young woman, Adela Quested (Judy Davis, Husbands and Wives), travels to British India with her fiancé’s mother, Mrs. Moore (Dame Peggy Ashcroft, The 39 Steps), […]

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1984

A Soldier’s Story (1984)

May 31, 2015by Eric Binford 2 Comments

Synopsis: Howard E. Rollins, Jr. (Milos Forman’s Ragtime) plays an African-American Army lawyer, CPT. Richard Davenport, who is ordered to investigate the mysterious murder of a fellow African-American soldier, SGT. […]

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1984

Mrs. Soffel (1984)

February 2, 2015by Eric Binford 1 Comment

Synopsis: In 1901, at a Pennsylvania prison, the warden’s wife (Diane Keaton, Annie Hall) falls in love with a man on death row (Mel Gibson, Mad Max). As the affair […]

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1984

Thief of Hearts (1984)

May 5, 2014by Eric Binford 3 Comments

Synopsis: A professional burglar (Steven Bauer, Primal Fear) who robs upper class houses accidentally steals a married woman’s (Barbara Williams, Watchers) secret diary. After reading the diary, the thief becomes […]

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1984

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

March 27, 2014by Eric Binford 5 Comments

Synopsis: A teenager, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp, Shocker), and her high school friends are having nightmares about a disfigured psychopath named Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund, Behind the Mask: The Rise of […]

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