1980s
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REVIEW: The Incredible Hulk: The Complete Collection Blu-Ray Box Set
We’ve had a string of retro restoration reviews on here lately focusing on 1980’s TV and movies, among others like Arrow, Fabulous Films has been...
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REVIEW: To Live And Die In L.A. Remastered Blu-Ray
Run Time: 4 Hours+ Rated: R What To Expect: 1980’s classic gets loving release Arrow Films really have been doing a service to retro classics....
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REVIEW: Ghostbusters II (1989) 4K UHD Blu-Ray
There are a few different ways of mastering a 4K ultra high definition movie. One is to film it in 4K digital, or upscale it...
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REVIEW: Smokey & The Bandit The Complete Collection Blu Ray Box Set
It’s a good year if you’re a Smokey & The Bandit fan, first with The Bandit appearing on TV (it’s a great documentary), now the...
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REVIEW: Knight Rider: The Complete Collection Blu-Ray
Running Time: 4,327 Mins Rated: 12 What To Expect: A real deal remaster, but the extras are kind of old and paltry Knight Rider is...
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REVIEW: The Hitcher (1986)
With the recent announcement of True Lies and The Abyss finally scheduled for a remastered Blu-Ray home video release, I cannot help but think of...
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REVIEW: The A-Team: The Complete Collection Blu-Ray
I think that this could be another first ever review for this website, like our review of Sabotage on Blu-Ray, I think we’re first out...
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REVIEW: A Better Tomorrow (1986)
In Hong Kong circa 1986, gangsters Sung Tse-Ho (Ti Lung) and Mark (Chow Yun-Fat) are best friends. Ho’s younger brother Sung Tse-Kit (Leslie Cheung), to...
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Finally… The A-Team Headed To Blu-Ray
It has long since been a demand of ManlyMovie, now it also looks to be an answered prayer. After Airwolf came to Blu-Ray, now the...
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REVIEW: The Sea Wolves (1980)
Fogeys versus Fascists or Atticus Finch and James Bond machine gun Nazis. The Sea Wolves is a funny, entertaining and occasionally bloody ‘men on mission’...
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REVIEW: The Osterman Weekend (1983)
This 1983 version of author Robert Ludlum’s (The Bourne Identity) novel deals with voyeurism, surveillance, corruption and madness and stars Rutger Hauer, John Hurt and...
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REVIEW: The Fourth Protocol (1987)
Harry Palmer versus 90’s James Bond, or so it seems in this tense and suspenseful 1987 Cold War thriller from bestselling espionage author, Frederick Forsyth...
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REVIEW: Airwolf: The Complete Series (2016) Blu-Ray
I reviewed this a year or two back when it had somewhat of a stealth release in Europe. A smaller distribution company sent the Blu-Ray...
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REVIEW: Licence To Kill (1989)
I’ve had a string of negative reviews on here lately, too much VODmit bringing down the tone. So I’m going to delve back into everyone’s...
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REVIEW: The Falcon And The Snowman (1985)
Recently in ‘The Americans’, a Cold War series set in the 1980s, after what I was feeling was pending stagnation, the series picked up somewhat....
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REVIEW: Used Cars (1980)
I haven’t posted a review here in a while. I’ve been sent some of the worst schlock imaginable, some of it with once famous names,...
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REVIEW: Death Hunt (1981)
This movie has balls of steel, to quote Duke Nukem. And it probably reflects what this site is quintessentially about. Charles Bronson is not like...
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REVIEW: The ‘Burbs Director’s Cut (1989)
A while back we reviewed Joe Dante’s masterpiece The ‘Burbs on Blu-Ray, a release that included the director’s cut of the movie. Up until the...
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[REVIEW] Day of the Dead (1985)
Runtime: 96 Mins Rated: R What To Expect: The best damn zombie movie of the 1980s Romero made four good zombie movies. There’s the classic...
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[REVIEW] Commando (1985)
Runtime: 90 min Rated: R What To Expect: World War III. Though I walk through the valley of shadow and death, I shall fear no evil;...
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[REVIEW] Razorback (1984)
Runtime: 95 mins Rated: R What To Expect: Ozploitation classic worth seeing despite its flaws Razorback can best be described as Jaws in an Australian outback setting...
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[REVIEW] Mad Max 2 (1981)
Runtime: 90 mins Rated: R What To Expect: A full-blown masterpiece that hasn’t dated in the slightest. It is indeed rare to behold a sequel...
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[REVIEW] Without Warning (1980)
Something of an obscurity here – I’d never seen or heard of this flick from 1980 until recently. I was watching a documentary about the...
