George Lucas hit a home run with his first sequel to the mega-hit "Star Wars" of 1977. "The Empire Strikes Back" was a big hit with critics and fans alike, becoming the highest grossing movie of 1980. The story has Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine pursing [..]

Ten years after the end of the "Star Trek" television series on NBC, Gene Roddenberry and Paramount Pictures finally released "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in 1979. The film is set three hundred years in the future, and tells the story of a mysterious and destructive cloud [..]

After a big misfire in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (1979), and its poor reception from critics and the general public, Paramount Pictures struck gold with the second picture "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." The brass at Paramount removed creator Gene Roddenberry from [..]

Executive producer George Lucas brought the original "Star Wars" trilogy (1977 & 1980) to a classy conclusion with "Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi." The crisp direction by Richard Marquand ("Eye of the Needle" 1981) and a marvelous screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas [..]

Sean Connery made a triumphant return as James Bond in "Never Say Never Again," twelve years after leaving the franchise in 1971's "Diamonds Are Forever." This is a loose remake of 1965's "Thunderball," and was not produced under the auspices of, nor sanctioned by, Eon Productions. (One other, [..]

"Octopussy" is pretty much typical James Bond fare: Lots of action, exotic locations, villains, beautiful women. The story has Bond assigned to solve the murder of 009 in East Germany clutching a fake Faberge egg. The trail leads to location shoots in India, West Germany, [..]

Jackie Gleason dominated the motion picture screen as his reprised his role of Sheriff Buford T. Justice in "Smokey and the Bandit Part 3." With a lackluster screenplay by Stuart Birnbaum and poor directing by Dick Lowry ("Kenny Rogers as The Gambler" 1980), and without stars Burt Reynolds [..]

"Love Again" is a romantic-comedy-drama that tells the story of a woman coping with the loss of her boyfriend by sending text messages to his old phone number, not realizing it was reassigned to a new person, a male journalist. He becomes captivated by her missives and [..]

"The Misfits" is an action-heist film from director Renny Harlin ("The Legend of Hercules" 2014), with the screenplay written by Robert Hemmy and Kurt Wimmer. This film is so bad that there is not much use going over the plot, as heist movie are as common as dirt [..]

"Class" is a comedy-drama romantic film that tells the story of a woman who falls into a torrid affair with her son's college roommate. Director Lewis John Carlino ("The Great Santini" 1979) seems as though he sloppily threw this film together with some comedic elements and some dramatic [..]