The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Drama
Heartbreakers (1985)
I really wanted to me more invested in Heartbreakers. This is potentially interesting portrait of two womanizing jerks who compete with one another and slowly...
Sylvester (1985)
Just a few days after being surprised by Peter Bogdanovich’s Mask, I was again surprised by Tim Hunter’s Sylvester. Both films seem cut from the...
Mask (1985)
Mask is a movie that forced me to let my guard down. I was ready to be cynical. Here is a movie about a kid...
The Aviator (1985)
I suspect that The Aviator was made by people who have seen a lot of old World War II movies. You know, those old movies...
Blood Simple. (1985)
Blood Simple is a brilliant example of pure filmmaking. For every inch of its running time it takes the shape of a film noir nightmare, the kind...
Fear City (1984)
Abel Ferrara’s Fear City is a movie with a lot of style and a serious lack of ambition. The pieces are here that could make...
Turk 182! (1985)
Turk 182! is one of those man-against-the-establishment movies that could only possibly work if the man and those within the establishment were totally brain dead. ...
