Cocktail (1988)- Roger Donaldson

Cocktail is pretty bad. But it’s also bad enough, that some of it is really enjoyable. And it’s hard tot believe this came right between Rain Man and Born on the 4th of July for Tom Cruise. The narrative falls apart about halfway through the film, and it never quite decides what it wants to…

Road House (1989) – Rowdy Herrington

Patrick Swayze plays Dalton, a lethal but zen bouncer in the cult-favorite, Road House, which also features the famed blind Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey as the bar band of the Double Deuce. Dalton is hired by Tilghman (Kevin Tighe) to help change his bar, the Double Deuce, into something a little more profitable. It has…

Miami Vice (1987) – Amen… Send Money, and Death and the Lady

Vice detective Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Micheal Thomas) finds himself in trouble in the first episode this week, Amen… Send Money. Written by John Schulian. It first aired on 2 October, 1987 and sees Brian Dennehy as Reverend Bill Bob Proverb. Rico and his partner Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) get in deep when Tubbs busts a…