The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Horror
To All A Goodnight (1980)
I was asked the other day from one of my fellow critics why low-budget horror directors seem so keen on staging slasher pictures on holidays...
The Amityville Horror (1979)
The poster for The Amityville Horror tells us – practically screams at us – the words "For God's Sake, Get Out!" Having seen the movie,...
Dawn of the Dead (1979)
Perhaps the best thing that can be said about George Romero’s zombie pictures is that he tries to take them seriously enough but still make...
Beyond the Door, Part 2 (1977)
It might have something to do with the value of my time that I never saw Beyond the Door, but that notion is quickly shattered...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Back in ’78 when the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers was reviewed by Siskel and Ebert (their show as then called “Sneak Previews”),...
Magic (1978)
There must have been, I can imagine, a great temptation to turn a movie like Magic into a freak show, an exercise in exploitation that...
Halloween (1978)
I was about 9 years-old when I saw Halloween for the first time, and if it is true that the movies that you are exposed...
