The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Drama
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...
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...
A Little Romance (1979)
When I heard the bare bones plot synopsis of A Little Romance, the story of two teenagers in Paris who fall in love, my brain...
Old Boyfriends (1979)
Old Boyfriends is not the longest film that I have ever seen, but it is one of the looongest films that I have ever seen. ...
The Champ (1979)
[reviewed February 14, 2021] Okay, I suppose that if you have to remake The Champ, you could do a lot worse. At a moment in...
The Bell Jar (1979)
I read Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” when I was in college, mainly to understand why my female classmates were so moved by it and,...
The China Syndrome (1979)
I’ll be honest, I generally have an emotional distance from movies with a social conscience because I know that, by the very nature of the...
