The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Comedy
Rhinestone (1984)
I never thought I would have to report on a movie with a running gag about jock itch, but here we are.Rhinestone is a pre-packaged...
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghostbusters is a very funny movie but more than that, it is an exception to the notion that big budgets and special effects and sour...
Gremlins (1984)
I have a very weird feeling that Gremlins either started out much like E.T. or the other way around. They seem to compliment one another. ...
Hardbodies (1984)
You can see the machinations behind the scenes. A group of middle-aged movie executives wanted to make a movie featuring girls in bikinis down at...
Sixteen Candles (1984)
If there is a universe unto raunchy teen comedies then Sixteen Candles floats near the top and Porky’s lays at the bottom. The former has...
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983)
I guess when it comes to Upper West Side Manhattan quirkiness, I’ll stick with Woody Allen. In Can She Bake a Cherry Pie director Henry...
Romancing the Stone (1984)
My guess is that Kathleen Turner could have spent her entire career playing variations on Matty Walker, the femme fatale in noir thriller Body Heat. ...
