Cocktail Movie Trailer (1988)
“Cocktail” tells the story of two bartenders and their adventures in six bars and several bedrooms. What is remarkable, given the subject, is how little the movie knows about bars or drinking. Early...
View ArticleRain Man Movie Trailer (1988)
When Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), a fast-talking automobile salesman in Los Angeles, returns to Cincinnati for his father’s funeral, he finds that he has inherited a pocket watch and a 1949 Buick...
View ArticleTequila Sunrise Movie Trailer (1988)
In the mind of Robert Towne there must be many crannies, many hidden pathways to the same conclusions. In considering a problem he must ponder first this, then that possibility, projecting scenarios...
View ArticleFriday the 13th Part VIII Movie Trailer (1989)
It seemed that every variation of camp had been disembowled by the time Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood hit theaters leaving the screenwriters to change up the dynamic and add some...
View ArticleSay Anything Movie Trailer (1989)
Then first time Lloyd Dobler calls Diane Court to ask her out on a date, he dials all but one digit of her phone number, then looks in the mirror and brushes his hair with his hand before dialing the...
View ArticleSex, Lies, and Videotape Movie Trailer (1989)
I have a friend who says golf is not only better than sex, but lasts longer. The argument in “sex, lies, and videotape” is that conversation is also better than sex – more intimate, more voluptuous –...
View ArticleVampire’s Kiss Movie Trailer (1989)
Vampire’s Kiss is going to confuse the hell out of the future archeologists who dig it out of the post-apocalyptic dirt. I imagine they’ll spend hours poring over it in total disbelief and wonder if...
View ArticleWhen Harry Met Sally… Movie Trailer (1989)
“When Harry Met Sally…” is a love story with a form as old as the movies and dialogue as new as this month’s issue of Vanity Fair. It’s about two people who could be characters in a Woody Allen movie,...
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