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Rampage (1988): Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Michael Biehn, Alex McArthur, Nicholas Campbell; This grapples with the psychology of murder and the moral dilemma surrounding the death penalty. A vicious serial killer is prosecuted but how will…
Short Takes: Dark Tales (1988-1994): Dir. Scott Reynolds, Simon Bare, Don McGlashan; A choice selection of short and shady New Zealand films: Game With No Rules (Dir. Scott Reynolds) 17m. Eau De La Vie (Dir. Simon Bare) 13m. The…
Tenth Man, The (1988): Dir. Jack Gold, Richard T. Heffron
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Brenda Bruce, Derek Jacobi…; A measured TV–movie adaptation of the novel by Graham Greene about a French lawyer who saves himself from being executed during the Nazi…
Tequila Sunrise (1988): Dir. Robert Towne
Feat. Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell, Michelle Pfeiffer…; Wandering yet amiable thriller replicates the trashy romanticism of Old Hollywood, with drug–dealer Mel Gibson trying to go straight under the…
Vanishing, The (1988): Dir. George Sluzier
Feat. Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Berroets, Johanna Ter Steege; A genuinely creepy psychological thriller – a woman vanishes while on holiday in France, later her boyfriend is taunted in a battle of wits…
Windmills of the Gods (1988): Dir. Lee Phillips
Feat. Jaclyn Smith, Robert Wagner, Ian McKellen…; As the Cold War rages, the president names Professor Mary Ashley as the new Ambassador to Romania. Mike Slade is appointed to be her assistant. As…
Without A Clue (1988): Dir. Thom Eberhardt
Feat. Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones…; A nicely contrived send–up of the Sherlock Holmes stories, with Kingsley playing Doctor Watson, who in fact has invented the character of…
21 Jump Street (TV Series) (1987-1991): Feat. Johnny Depp, Frederic Forrest, Peter DeLuise…; Iconic, lightly–rendered youth thriller series, in which four young–looking undercover cops infiltrate high schools to expose various…
After Pilkington (1987): Dir. Christopher Morahan
Feat. Bob Peck, Miranda Richardson, Barry Foster; The exhilirating complications and barbed wit of Simon Gray's stageplay survive this BBC thriller, about an Oxford professor (Bob Peck) drawn into a…
Angel Dust (1987): Dir. Edouard Niermans
Feat. Bernard Giraudeau, Fanny Bastien, Fanny Cottencon; Accomplished thriller in the film noir tradition about an out–of–luck cop who falls for a woman he later begins to suspect of murder.

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