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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When Time Ran Out . . . (1980)
Some pictures come from the heart. Others come from the marketing department. I think the latter sums up the entirety of Irwin Allen's career. He's...
Defiance (2022)
Sometimes you get a feeling for things unspoken. Like, even though you're watching a movie that is completely disposable, someone during the production had a...
Rocky II (1979)
Most sequels to successful films are just running a victory lap. They aren’t necessary and largely they just repeat the same formula in order to...
Hurricane (1979)
You know those documentaries that pop up on television all the time that recount the legend of one of the great treasures of Hollywood? I...
The Warriors (1979)
Why didn’t they just steal a car?This is a question that plagues me about The Warriors, Walter Hill’s ultra-violent cult-classic about a group of New...
The Great Train Robbery (1979)
Having attempted to read some of Michael Critchton’s books, I can imagine that the best way to adapt them for the screen is to first...
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
Completely by accident, I saw Force 10 from Navarone on the exact same day as The Wild Geese, and while neither is what you might...
