Category: 1980s

• Ran (1985) dir. Akira Kurosawa

  September 5, 2025

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  1980s, Drama, Japanese, Movies at the Riv

  Akira Kurosawa pulls off a perfect Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare in this beautiful classic. Hunters stand on rolling hills in the Japanese countryside. One finds three boars in the distance. They mount. They pursue. And soon, all three are dead. The main conflict in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran is not political, or even dynastical. It is,…

  

• Invasion U.S.A. (1985) dir. Joseph Zito

  September 4, 2025

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  1980s, Action

  Invasion U.S.A. might be one of the most ridiculous movies I’ve ever seen, but it was also ironically one of the most fun. There was something invigorating about what I was seeing onscreen, even though I knew it would be incredibly dangerous and traumatizing in real life. Although it wasn’t as stylish as Natural Born…