They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for December, 1982
Gandhi (1982)
once referred to Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi as a Broccoli Movie – a term that I invented to describe any movie that is no-doubt very good, but also good for you. In other words, not the first movie that you would immediately choose to spend a casual evening with even though you cannot discount its merits. Over the years I have […]
The Toy (1982)
I went into Richard Donner’s The Toy knowing nothing about it, except that is stars Richard Pryor and I am not exaggerating when I say that when I realized what the plot was going to be, I sat there in slack-jawed horror. I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe that one of the most brilliant, […]
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
The Trail of the Pink Panther can be read one of two ways, as either (a.) a tribute to the late Peter Sellers’ mastery of physical comedy or (b.) a crass attempt to ring a few more dollars out of this series even with its star now gone. For me, it’s really both. Since the […]
Tootsie (1982)
Tootsie is a great American comedy, a throwback to the screwball comedies of the 1930s, movies like Twenties Century and My Man Godfrey, in which a lot of high comedy was laced with a social message that didn’t spoil the fun. Sydney Pollack has taken the most common comic premise and given it a modern twist and employed […]
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
I have talked to a lot of people who didn’t like Airplane II: The Sequel, complaining that 80% of this movie is just recycling jokes from the original Airplane! I can’t argue with that, but I can observe that those recycled jokes made me laugh even though they were being told again. Maybe it says […]
Sophie’s Choice (1982)
I firmly believe that Meryl Streep will be one of only a handful of currently working actors who will be remembered in 300 years – maybe she and Jack Nicholson. She is comes so natural to her craft and so inevitably to the screen that we quickly settle in to whatever she is doing. She […]
48hrs. (1982)
Eddie Murphy seems to possess something that George C. Scott called The Joy of Performance. You can see him taking a lot of joy in his work and it is something that the audience can feel. He wants to be there; he wants to entertain you and that’s something that you cannot fake. I got […]
