The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Musical
Breakin’ (1984)
Okay, so here’s a 1930s musical plot grafted onto an 80s movie about break dancing. That’s actually not a bad thing. How much plot do...
Hard to Hold (1984)
The song remains the same. Once again, like Two of a Kind, another movie in which the creativity stops with the casting. Once the producers...
Yentl (1983)
When Yentl was over, I caught myself smiling. I got caught up in the story and even teared up at one point while Barbra Streisand...
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Pink Floyd The Wall is a long-form rock opera that, for 95 minutes, wallows in nightmarish images of decay and degradation through striking images, animation...
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
There is a song early in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas that I think illustrates the basic problem with this movie. It says of...
Grease 2 (1982)
All through Grease 2, I kept thinking back to different movie. Not the earlier movie from 1978, but rather George Lucas’ American Graffiti. Both take...
Annie (1982)
Annie is an all-out, full-blooded, hugely produced extravaganza with all of the familiar pieces in place. There’s Annie. There’s Daddy Warbucks. There’s the mean old...
