The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Drama
Cry Freedom (1987)
Since Cry Freedom is a film of such noble purpose, I don’t want to seem glib by suggesting that my disinterest in the film had...
Gaby: A True Story (1987)
Purely on instinct, I think I've built up a resistance to movies about people with handicaps. That's not a swipe at anyone's personal ailments, but...
Suspect (1987)
The general thinking is that Cher can pretty much do anything. She’s so confident and so talented that you assume on general principal that whatever...
The Sicilian (1987)
I don't normally do this, but I came to The Sicilian with a lot of outside baggage loaded in my head. In short, all of the...
Weeds (1987)
I have a feeling that I might have wanted to see Weeds on the stage rather than a in movie theater. That way its songs could...
House of Games (1987) – An Essay
Mike is a con-artist - emphasis on the word 'artist'.I say “artist” because that’s the most apt description of Mike, a man so skilled at...
Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)
I have a bit of a beef with Ridley Scott. Why do his films look so glorious, so unique, so distinctive but his scripts come...
