The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
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Class of 1984 (1982)
I have a colleague who has a deep, passionate love for Class of 1984 that I am afraid that I can’t quite share. He has...
The Road Warrior (1982)
It’s funny how these things happen. Just two days after seeing Hal Needham’s half-assed futuristic motorcycle movie MegaForce, I arrived at The Road Warrior. If...
MegaForce (1982)
Megaforce is a dumb movie full of bad action scenes, a nothing story and characters pulled off the shelf. If it had half a brain,...
Rocky III (1982)
Rocky III is about as subtle as a Sherman Tank, and that’s a giant letdown given what preceded it. Whatever complexity, humanity and warmth existed...
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
When Conan the Barbarian was over, I was smiling. I think perhaps it had something to do with my expectations. Going in, I expected a...
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...
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...
