Movies directed by John Badham

No Place to Run (1972)

73 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

No Place to Run: an old man and his adopted grandson try to make it to Canada but have the law on their trail...

Saturday Night Fever (1977)

118 mins     Drama      

I was born in 1972 and my love of movies only real came about during the 80s. Why do I mention that? Well it's because whilst some of my favourite movies actually come from the 70s the 70s as a rule are my cinematic nemesis a...

WarGames (1983)

114 mins     Drama, Thriller      

WarGames: Matthew Broderick stars as David Lightman the computer geek who inadvertently almost starts WWIII when he unintentionally hacks into the government's new computer system thinking it is a system belonging to a games ...

Blue Thunder (1983)

109 mins     Action , Crime, Drama      

Back in the 80s there were two TV shows about flashy helicopters, they both arrived in 1984 one was called "Blue Thunder" the other "Airwolf" and I was an "Airwolf" fan as it was much cooler. Ironically a few years after the ...

American Flyers (1985)

113 mins     Drama, Sport      

Kevin Costner's moustache maybe a distraction but cycling movie "American Flyers" is a surprisingly entertaining movie, mixing the drama of a divided family with that of a cycling race "The King of The Hills". Kevin Costner p...

Short Circuit (1986)

98 mins     Comedy, Sci-Fi      

Released back in 1986, Short Circuit is a family movie about an AWOL robot with the name of Johnny 5. Although it is classified as a sci-fi, the film is more focused on the comedy side of things, as Johnny 5 learns all about ...

Stakeout (1987)

117 mins     Action , Comedy, Crime      

I've never really understood what the appeal of "Stakeout" was that it warranted a sequel. It was entertaining enough as a one off, it also had some very noticeable issues but it did had some enjoyable performances but it was...

Bird on a Wire (1990)

110 mins     Action , Comedy, Thriller      

"Bird on a Wire" is a movie which was made not because it had some wonderful original storyline, or a lot of special effects, although it does have a lot of chase sequences, nope it appears to have been made because someone w...

Another Stakeout (1993)

108 mins     Action , Comedy, Crime      

Pretty much everything I said about "Stakeout" I can repeat when it comes to the sequel, a movie which I still believe was never needed. As such I am going to keep this short and simple because again we have a movie which doe...

Obsessed (2002)

90 mins     Drama, Thriller, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Obsessed (2002) Jenna Elfman stars as Ellena who finds herself arrested for supposedly stalking a surgeon (Sam Robards) she had an affair with, but Ellena claims she is innocent...