Joe Dorsey’s Typical Vibe
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Joe Dorsey has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1980s.
Recurring themes

Aliens
1986
Action · Thriller

Escape from New York
1981
Action · Thriller

The Manhattan Project
1986
Science Fiction · Thriller

Dreamscape
1984
Drama · Science Fiction

The Professional
1981
Action · Adventure

Outland
1981
Science Fiction · Action

The Terminator
1984
Action · Thriller

Black Rain
1989
Drama · Action

High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
Dir. John Badham · With Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood

Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force reconnaissance pilot, Capt. Bartholomew Clark, he maps out an escape route.
Dir. Peter Markle · With Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Jerry Reed

Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
Dir. Douglas Trumbull · With Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher

Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
Dir. Stewart Raffill · With Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas
An eighteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into the area.
Dir. William Girdler · With Christopher George, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel