Archive for February, 1982
Death Wish II (1982)
Death Wish II is one of the ugliest, most artless pieces of indifference that I have had the opportunity to witness. It is clearly a movie made for cynical reasons by people who want to give the potential audience the bare minimum, take their money and be done with it. Personally, I was just happy […]
Cannery Row (1982)
It always drives me nuts when I see characters on the screen who come from a particular time and place, whose form and function in this world seems so specific and yet I never for one moment believe that they are living, breathing human beings. I hate it when the drama is undercut by actors […]
Night Crossing (1982)
Night Crossing was an attempt by the Walt Disney Company to abandon it’s past, to move onto more seriously and modern stories far from sentient Volkswagens and Apple Dumpling Gangs. But I am not sure that this was really a step in the right direction (which is a sentence that I write with a giggle). […]