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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The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
One of the things that I love about The Muppets is the way in which, no matter what they are doing, the plot gets out...
Dragonslayer (1981)
Dragonslayer arrives at a very particular moment, after John Boorman’s Excalibur and just after the Ray Harryhausen extravaganza Clash of the Titans. Given those two...
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
I suppose that after Moonraker, James Bond had nowhere to go but up. Once he hit rock bottom by going to outer space, I kinda...
The Cannonball Run (1981)
There is generally no reason for me to like The Cannonball Run. It is stupid, aimless, juvenile and most of its jokes don’t work, but...
Superman II (1981)
Much will be written about Superman II dealing with its visual effects, it’s villains and it’s equality to 1978’s Superman. But I fear that not...
Clash of the Titans (1981)
It is perhaps a credit to the great animator Ray Harryhausen that in the age of Star Wars, his brand of special effects can still...
History of the World, Part I (1981)
I have been wracking my brain trying to figure out what went wrong with this movie. Here is an epic brought to us by one...
