I’m a child of the eighties. Despite everything about that decade that makes us collectively cringe in hindsight, there were a lot of really good movies around. With the home video explosion as the starting gun, it was probably the most inventive, free-spirited and invigorating decades in film history, when people still had fresh stories to tell, before the endless cycle of adaptations, sequels and ‘reimaginings’ threatened to stifle all those sweetly amateurish voices, if not silence them completely. But that’s a rant for another day. Let’s just watch one of those eighties films instead, shall we?

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