The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Comedy
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...
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...
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...
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...
It Came from Hollywood (1982)
I was alarmed, concerned even, when it became clear to me that there are more Grade-Z, bilge-bucket movies in the world than films that have...
Jinxed! (1982)
You know, I have a general good will toward most movies. I consider myself to be a little more forgiving than the average critic for...
My Favorite Year (1982)
I had a teacher once who told me that there is a difference between acting and ACTING!! The former is the subtle art of slipping...
