The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
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Mommie Dearest (1981)
What a miserable, ugly experience this movie is. What unremitting pain and despair is trotted out for public entertainment. Okay, so we have it on...
Continental Divide (1981)
I suppose that all romantic comedies are basically pure fantasy, but Continental Divide kind of hits me where I live. It’s about a chubby, average-looking...
Pixote (1981)
I once heard an interview with a retired judge who had spent more than four decades in the family court in my hometown of Birmingham,...
Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)
I know what I expected from Tarzan the Ape Man, I know that in my mind I was angling for some kind of primal sexual...
Victory (1981)
Victory is a movie with a capital ‘M’. It is hard to hate it but it’s even harder to take one minute of it seriously,...
Zorro the Gay Blade (1981)
There are a lot of things working against Zorro the Gay Blade, but I think where it fails first and foremost is that nobody ever really...
Arthur (1981)
Arthur is a strange and often very funny screwball comedy, the kind that Howard Hawks might have made in the 1930s. These movies are always...
